Loss of Innocence

Loss of Innocence
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Blaine Trilogy, Book 2

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فرمت کتاب

audiobook

تاریخ انتشار

2013

نویسنده

Julia Whelan

شابک

9781482926262
  • اطلاعات
  • نقد و بررسی
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نقد و بررسی

AudioFile Magazine
The privileged 22-year-old daughter of a wealthy Martha's Vineyard family, Whitney Dane is planning her upcoming wedding when she meets her intellectual match in Ben, a college dropout and volunteer for Robert Kennedy's presidential campaign. Narrator Julia Whelan imbues Whitney with more self-confidence and wisdom than might be expected of this clichéd character, and she tempers Ben's hostility toward the wealthy families who cling to power in the face of the rapid changes taking place in American mores. Whelan portrays Whitney's parents with consistency; Charles Dane's self-importance and conservative single-mindedness are matched by his wife's pampered upper-class New England expectations. With the exception of Nixon and Kennedy, whose voices are given only slight variations, the two-dimensional participants in this novel are improved by Whelan's narration. N.M.C. © AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine

Publisher's Weekly

August 12, 2013
Thriller author Patterson ventures into mainstream waters with mixed results in this follow-up to 2012’s Fall from Grace, the second entry in a projected trilogy. In June 1968, 21-year-old Whitney Dane, a child of privilege, is looking forward to her September wedding to Peter Brooks, her socially suitable college sweetheart, on Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., where her family has a summer house. Whitney anticipates having the picture-perfect marriage of her proper parents, but the times are a-changin’, and things do not go as planned. Early one late June morning, after a swim in the ocean, Whitney encounters Benjamin Blaine, a college dropout who grew up on the island and worked for Robert Kennedy’s presidential campaign. Readers will know that poor Whitney will never be the same after meeting Ben, whose “angular frame, taller than Peter’s, suggested litheness and grace even when still.” The plot meanders along without surprise until a few shockers are thrown in toward the end. The result resembles nothing so much as a minor John O’Hara book, concerned, as that author’s work usually was, with notions of class, personal and political change, and, most of all, heartbreak. First printing of 150,000. Agent: Cullen Stanley, Janklow & Nesbit Associates.




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