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Netherland
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Ik twijfel tussen 3 of 4 sterren, maar geef toch een 4. Het boek is confronterend voor mensen van 40+, scherpe observaties over relaties, vriendschappen en gemoedstoestanden en de uiteindelijke berusting in zaken die misschien niet ideaal zijn, maar waar je het toch mee moet doen. Storend element vond ik de ellenlange beschrijvingen over cricket, cricketwedstrijden, het ideale gras en hoe dat gemaaid moet worden. Misschien bedoelt O'Neill dat alles metaforisch. Als dat zijn bedoeling was, is me dat toch echt ontgaan.
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Jan 28, 2020 03:50AM
I don't know if I have caught the meaning of your review right! What are these things being not ideal, but that you still have to do with and be resigned about, if I may ask Hanneke?
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Hi Pierre-E, it's been quite a while that I read the book, but I assume that I meant that you have to accept the unavoidable inability to generally change the terms of friendship, marriage and relationships, in this case after a divorce, which was the essence of the book as I recall. But I am not entirely sure anymore, as the book did not make a lasting impression.
I read it many years ago...have you read his more recent collection of short stories Hanneke )Good Trouble)? Loved The Poltroon Husband in that collection!
No, Jim, I never hear of that collection of short stories. Well, I'll look into it. I can see him as an excellent short story writer.
Perhaps the book was not ideal either, and there is no changing it ;) Thanks for the info, Hanneke :)
