Book Review
Apr. 26th, 2006 08:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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by Penelope Lively
Lively won a well-deserved Booker Prize for this novel in 1987. It is the life story of Claudia Hampton, as she remembers it on her deathbed. A brilliant, feisty, and often difficult woman, Claudia has lead an adventurous and surprisingly romantic life. The best thing about the book, though, is the way Lively structures the narrative. Claudia does not go over her life in linear fashion, starting with the facts of her birth and progressing forward in an orderly fashion. Instead, she remembers things kaleidoscopically and associatively rather than chronologically. But always coherently, with an order and logic dictated more by thoughts and feeling than a timeline.
by Penelope Lively
Lively won a well-deserved Booker Prize for this novel in 1987. It is the life story of Claudia Hampton, as she remembers it on her deathbed. A brilliant, feisty, and often difficult woman, Claudia has lead an adventurous and surprisingly romantic life. The best thing about the book, though, is the way Lively structures the narrative. Claudia does not go over her life in linear fashion, starting with the facts of her birth and progressing forward in an orderly fashion. Instead, she remembers things kaleidoscopically and associatively rather than chronologically. But always coherently, with an order and logic dictated more by thoughts and feeling than a timeline.
