Title: Truly Awful
Product review: Shirley Hazzard owes me $24.00 for this book. Her pompous writing style obscures the basic plot to the point that I wanted to scream out loud. You feel nothing for the characters, mostly because their speech and thoughts are so affected that you cannot believe that they are human beings. The dialogue and speech is completely inappropriate for the time. She seems to forget that this novel was not set in Victorian England. Here's an example: "There was also fascism, rife in city and countryside. At night, young men held the gladiatorial battles of an unequal civil war." Personally, I cannot imagine an modern person speaking like this.To be fair, maybe it gets better in the end, but I couldn't finish it. It was supposed to be my entertainment on a cross-country flight. I ended up reading the airline magazine instead. At least the magazine wasn't supposed to be an award winning piece of literature.
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