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A review by baielleebooks
Until August by Gabriel García Márquez
adventurous
reflective
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
Until August's flair is in delivering sensual passages that show a deftness for language. And it is really something to observe the final piece of work by a renowned author come to fruition, and have its symbolism of being in the world
explained by a poignant foreword.
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Truth to be told my attention did yo-yo with this novel, and Ana Magdalena Bach was someone I didn't draw a great deal from, but Until August was well poised in situating me as a reader inbetween that rock-and-hard-place of unspooling yearning, yet being constricted by one's reality and not knowing what it is that one truly desires.
explained by a poignant foreword.
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Truth to be told my attention did yo-yo with this novel, and Ana Magdalena Bach was someone I didn't draw a great deal from, but Until August was well poised in situating me as a reader inbetween that rock-and-hard-place of unspooling yearning, yet being constricted by one's reality and not knowing what it is that one truly desires.