Crooked Little Heart: A Novel
by Anne Lamott
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Author: Anne LamottEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1998-05-18
ISBN: 0385491808
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Anchor
Book Reviews of Crooked Little Heart: A Novel
Book Review: A coming of age story that is just a little crooked . . . which makes it ring as true
Summary: 4 Stars
A friiend of mine turned me om to Anne Lamott and I am so gratteful. A very quirky story line is matched with a poet`s ability to express a common experience with an uncoomon clarity and brilliance. Ms. Lamottcrafts a story, that on it's face is about two teenage tennis progidies, which, if that was all it was would never have engaged me for more than a few pages.
The book is much more about how people confront the ordinary and the extraordinary cries of their lives. Annie Lamott uses the vehicle of common and ordinary to reflect on experiences with which any reader can identify. the reader becomes ally, protagonist, hero, and victim as this story unfolds. We have all been there and done that, which is what makes me care about and understand these characters.
Summary of Crooked Little Heart: A Novel
With the same winning combination of humor and honesty that marked her recent nonfiction bestsellers, Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott's new novel gives us an exuberant, richly absorbing portrait of a family for whom the joys and sorrows of everyday life are magnified under the glare of the unexpected.Rosie Ferguson, in the first bloom of young womanhood, is obsessed with tournament tennis. Her mother is a recovering alcoholic still grieving the death of her first husband; her stepfather, a struggling writer, is wrestling with his own demons. And now Rosie finds that her athletic gifts, once a source of triumph and escape, place her in peril, as a shadowy man who stalks her from the bleachers seems to be developing an obsession of his own.
Crooked Little Heart asks big questions in intimate ways: What keeps a family together? What are the small heartbreaks that tear at the fabric of our lives? What happens to grief when it goes underground? And what road must we walk with our flawed and crooked hearts?
Brilliantly written, inhabited by superbly realized characters, funny and human and wonderfully suspenseful, Crooked Little Heart is Anne Lamott writing at the peak of her considerable powers.
At 13, Rosie plays a gangly, pigeon-toed second fiddle to her juicy, sexy friend Simone. The two are junior tennis champs who often cart home trophies. But driven by the gnawing fear that she's a loser, Rosie starts to cheat. Meantime, boy-crazy Simone dabbles in off-court disaster. Up in the bleachers a weird loner named Luther obsessively follows Rosie's games, while at home her mother wrestles her own demons. Anne Lamott (Operating Instructions) has turned in a fair depiction of the blood and bones of adolescence that's thankfully leavened by sharp humor and transcendent moments. The novel is uneven and heavy-handed at times, but often rewarding.
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