I'm tentatively rating this 3.5 but I'll need to sit with it a bit longer. This was very well written but also fairly dense and not a writing style that I'm accustomed to. I had a vague concept of the storyline going in, which held up to what I expected. I did not expect the rampant misogyny, and that's harder to ignore in such a short novel. I understand this book was written in the 50s and is thus a product of its time, but that nonetheless took away from how much I can hold this book in esteem. (I wanted to say how much I enjoyed it-- but this is not a book that you enjoy.) With all of that considered, I did find a great deal of value in the prose, and I wish the story were longer to really flesh out the relationships.
I really don't know where I am with this one. But it is worth a read.