Wrapped Up In Books

My musings on what I've read since January 2006.

Monday, October 22, 2007

What Maisie Knew - Henry James

I am by nature a fast reader so I need to adjust to this, an early novel but with many of the elements of the high James style - sentences with multiple subclauses, paragraphs that go on forever and all. It's worth persevering, though, for this unusual tale of a divorced couple using their daughter as a weapon to get at each other. Everything is told through the girl's eyes, so the reader has to pay attention to figure out the motivations of the various adult characters.

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