Victoria (YSB) - reviewed on 12/1/2009 + 636 more book reviews

She is one of my favorite authors! Everything of hers that I have read is intriguing and thought-provoking. This book, from 1976, is no exception. I liked the story of this writer who couldn't identify with her characters, who lived so many different lives, that the only way to straighten everything out was to fake her own death. It felt original and new - and not just for a book that is over thirty years old. I really liked it - though I was a bit disappointed that she seemed to have "fallen in love" again by the end... but even that mild disappointment isn't enough to distract from how much I loved the book as a whole. This book did remind me a bit of a few others - like they had taken elements from this one, particularly in the body-image and the main characters' overweight childhood, such as Wally Lamb's _She's Come Undone_.

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