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Lush writing, eye candy for readers of less complicated literary prose. While I can't honestly say that I grew to fully care for any of the characters (finding them self-absorbed, narcissistic beings), I immensely enjoyed much of the journey. The epic nature of the tale lends itself to lush visual imagery, the writing is immeasurably beautiful, and the author's peculiar story of not very likable people is engaging from beginning to end.
As a story with a point of any kind? Not so much. In essence: a humble looking man who lives with his mother falls in love, by letter-writing campaign, with a young girl he has never spoken to. Her father sends her away, but the young lovers continue their written affair. The young lady changes her mind and marries a doctor who seems like a decent man, she also buys a trash-talking parrot. The young man has uncommitted sex with lots of women over the next 50 years, but waits for the now-old young lady to become available again. Of course her old husband dies from a fall while trying to throttle the escaped parrot, and the old sex addict, whose current paramour is a little girl of whom he is guardian, resumes his quest - successfully. The little girl commits suicide. He tries to feel bad about it, but cannot.
As a story with a point of any kind? Not so much. In essence: a humble looking man who lives with his mother falls in love, by letter-writing campaign, with a young girl he has never spoken to. Her father sends her away, but the young lovers continue their written affair. The young lady changes her mind and marries a doctor who seems like a decent man, she also buys a trash-talking parrot. The young man has uncommitted sex with lots of women over the next 50 years, but waits for the now-old young lady to become available again. Of course her old husband dies from a fall while trying to throttle the escaped parrot, and the old sex addict, whose current paramour is a little girl of whom he is guardian, resumes his quest - successfully. The little girl commits suicide. He tries to feel bad about it, but cannot.
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