Margarettown

Ah... this book was perfect for me right now, it seemed. Just one part-Margarette Towne's daughter ends up being named Jane. And near the end, N. gives her advice; it seems as it is written to me. It says: "I wish i could tell you to always follow your heart, but i think it is bad advice. You have a......more

From the synopsis, I thought I was picking up a book that was going to be an artsy metaphor about how people change over time. That's probably what it wanted to be, but it wasn't. It started out well enough, though I found that the characters spoke in a very unnatural, Fred Astaire movie sort of way,......more

Margarettown es el nombre de la protagonista de esta novela corta. Se hace una minuciosa exploración de ella, desde una mirada imaginativa, creativa, caótica y llena de fantasía. Al principio la historia es divertida, un tanto extraña, llena de peculiaridades pero logra interesar. Maggie inunda cada p......more

Bel libro, soprattutto originale. Non credo che abbia la bellezza di La misura della felicità, ma ha un suo perchè. Mi è piaciuto sopratutto il concetto che ogni donna è una città e che all'interno di noi stesse racchiudiamo un numero infinito di noi, ognuna delle quali salta fuori nei più svariati mo......more

What a neat, bizarre little book this was. Margarettown is actually a letter from father to daughter, telling the tale of how he meets her mother, Margaret, and his life thereafter. I loved the blurred lines between fable and reality, where you wonder if the narrator is being imaginative, a little d......more