Title: Brief, intimate impressions
Product review: Just spent the whole afternoon reading this book and found it so moving and well-crafted. Actually, I was drawn to the book by a review in "The Believer" which puts it more eloquently than I can."In the morally dubious, aesthetically risky, kind of great prelude, Biss crosscuts black-box transcripts with soundbites from family members, concerning her mother's own thwarted artistic ambitions. The brief, intimate impressions that follow read like carefully selected diary entries; something like Renata Adler cool-neon fragments, as melancholy as they are wry."If you're interested in writing at all or modern families or women's writing or you want something really brilliant to read, I'd heartily recommend "The Balloonists."
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