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Title: The God of Nightmares by Paula Fox, Rosellen Brown ISBN: 0393322874 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: June, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent writing and characters, not so great plot
Comment: I enjoyed Fox's memoire "Borrowed Finery" very much. This book, written before the memoire, covers much of the same territory, but the effort to turn what clearly are parts of Fox's own life into fiction doesn't work all that well. I had to laugh when I discovered Fox giving her own childhood to one of the characters.
All of the characters in "The God of Nightmares" are weird in one way or another, except the main character, Helen, who tells the story. She seems pretty ordinary until the last chapter when Fox tries to show us Helen isn't so nice after all. I didn't like this last chapter, which takes place more than 25 years after the main story. Fox tries too hard to tie things up and tell us what happened to each of her characters. I was especially irritated by the way she changed the husband -- but I won't say more about that as it comes as something of a surprise.
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Title: The Widow's Children by Paula Fox, Andrea Barrett ISBN: 0393319636 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Borrowed Finery: A Memoir by Paula Fox ISBN: 0805071849 Publisher: Owl Books Pub. Date: 02 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Poor George: A Novel by Paula Fox, Jonathan Lethem ISBN: 0393321312 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: February, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: A Servant's Tale: A Novel by Paula Fox, Melanie Rehak ISBN: 0393322858 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Western Coast: A Novel by Paula Fox, Frederick Busch ISBN: 0393322866 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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