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Title: If only there was a God.
Review: Everything about Hagar Shipley is repugnant. From rathervisceral descriptions of huiman ugliness, I could find some literaryvalue. It's a technically solid book, but quite honestly, it's -boring.-Authors should feel in some way compelled to be telling a story. One of those simple mysteries, it seems. It seems a rather fitting sequel to W.O. Mitchell's who has seen the wind, and in fact I see a lot of sharp parallels. Unlikable narrator (though little Brian is simply incipid, while Hagar manages to be thouroughly horrid), dawdling, Seinfeldian plot that isn't really a plot at all, and a vcery frank account of praire life.I find myself wishing Bampton would just smack this woman. She's foolish, pretentious, pitiful and downright -stupid- at times. I derrived sick pleasure from her fall at the begining of the book.
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