![]() ![]() The third generation - Sadie and Avery, smart, articulate, perceptive granddaughters - appear every so often, with only a vague sense of who their grandfather was.īarbra, who consumes mostly ice water with lemon slices, and who silently repeats the mantra “pretty and thin,” is a study in joylessness. Gary, anguished by wife Twyla’s betrayal, is also more opaquely drawn than his mother and sister. Victor, characterized by size, violence and mysteriousness, is more an archetype than a vivid presence on the page. ![]() His long-suffering wife, Barbra, calls their children - Alex, a lawyer, and Gary, who works in television - but only Alex returns to her dying father’s bedside, informing Victor she forgives him “for half” of his trespasses: hitting his family (particularly Barbra) vanishing from their Connecticut home for days without explanation chastising them for showing emotion, and generally being cold. The majority of Jami Attenberg’s latest novel, “All This Could Be Yours,” is set on a single sweltering day in New Orleans, on the occasion of Victor Tuchman’s impending death. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |