Souvenir of Cold Springs: A Novel, by Kitty Burns Florey
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Souvenir of Cold Springs: A Novel, by Kitty Burns Florey
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The world of this novel moves back in time as the layers are peeled away to reveal the truth about a long-ago family tragedy that impacts the characters’ lives for years after. Beginning with a young college student haunted by her own choices and ending with the surprisingly serene image of an aging woman looking back on her turbulent life, the story encompasses a panorama of events set against the changing social backdrop of the middle years of the 20th century.
Souvenir of Cold Springs: A Novel, by Kitty Burns Florey- Amazon Sales Rank: #5309067 in Books
- Published on: 2015-03-10
- Released on: 2015-03-10
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .62" w x 5.50" l, .78 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 277 pages
From Publishers Weekly Florey's seventh novel (Duet; Vigil for a Stranger; etc.) follows a family's complicated, often troubled history through the lives of several generations of its women, starting with young Margaret Neal's dramatic departure from Harvard in the mid-1980s and ending with her great-aunt Peggy's girlhood, which resembles Margaret's in more ways than one. The dramas of each generation are revealed in chapters assigned to the principal female characters at different points in the family's timeline vignettes of individual lives, steeped in the mundane and magical, each of which could easily stand alone as a tightly crafted short story. Of particular interest is another aunt, Margaret's great-aunt Nell, who hosts the annual (and typically disastrous) Thanksgiving dinner and seems to tie the members of the family together in some surreptitious way. Nell and the "souvenir" she offers prove the link between Margaret and her mysterious namesake. Florey has a particular gift for characterization and imbues her protagonists' simplest moments of self-reflection with telling detail and startling awareness. The result is a smart and absorbing novel that rings true. Most impressive is that the many falls and foibles of this clan do not serve to create an air of tragedy nor does the female-driven narrative lapse into sentimentality. Florey's forthright and witty prose buoyantly carries the tale. The reverse narrative structure and the plethora of friends and family can make it quite difficult to keep all of the characters and their respective relationships straight, but the effort is worth making. (Aug. 15)Forecast: Fans of Alice McDermott will appreciate this honest and graceful book. The rather earth-motherish cover art doesn't effectively represent what's inside, but it shouldn't hurt sales either.
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From Booklist Florey's new novel is a collage of viewpoints presented backward in time, from 1987 to 1938. Specific characters pop up sometimes as children, sometimes as adults, but always to provide that character's slant on the family to which they all belong. The traditional Thanksgiving family reunion at Aunt Nell's throughout the years tracks the marriages, children, and divorces of the likes of charming, alcoholic Uncle Teddy; Kay, his first wife, who married him because she thought he would be a good father to her children; Nell and her lover, Thea, whose longstanding lesbian relationship is discovered by her priggish artist brother, Jamie, when she is 57; and the children, no longer children but pot-smoking young adults with college classes, careers, and relationships. Densely written, the novel's overlapping perspectives may confuse some readers while delighting others. Whitney ScottCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
Review “Florey imbues her protagonists’ simplest moments of self-reflection with telling detail and startling awareness [in] forthright and witty prose. . . . [An] honest and graceful book.” —Publishers Weekly “It would be best if you just went and read the book now. . . . These people seem real, and their secrets seem possible, fascinating.” —Hartford Courant
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. An intriguing read By rebelmomof2 I must confess that I wasn't sure about reading this book at first ~~ it sounded so depressing especially when the novel started off with Margaret who is dealing with an unwanted pregnancy and the aftermath of an abortion. However, as I continue to read this book, I find it very intriguing and very interesting. It's definitely a book geared to mothers and daughters ~~ and Florey describes the intricate interweaving of relationships between mothers, daughters, sisters and lovers with a flair that most authors don't seem to have these days.This book is also written in an unique way. Florey starts with the present ~~ Margaret, the fifth generation, then it travels back into time. Florey takes a chapter for each woman and brings these women alive with feelings, dreams and broken dreams, unfulfilled desires and sadness, and on and on. It's wonderfully written and I loved it. I, personally, can relate to every character in the book ~~ and Florey has done a wonderful job of bringing them to life. These are women who are flesh and blood like the rest of us.I wouldn't hesitate to pick up this book ~~ fortunately, my mother picked it up and loaned it to me to read. I can't wait to give it back to her and urge her to read it next! Like mother, like daughter. =) This is a book you should read and pass onto all the mothers and sisters and daughters in your life.5-8-03
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Good, but By Lawrence W. Prichard I have loved Kitty Burns Florey's writng for a very long time. Her strengths are present- clear characters, ample, but not overwhelming detail, and a sincere affection.However, I found the structure of this otherwised fine book disorienting. Unlike Margaret Atwood's _Cat's Eye_, another novel which plays with structure, this only regresses until the last chapter, a not entirely satisfying wrap-up.The strongest, most interesting character is Nell. There is no explicit sex, but Nell's lesbainism is dealt with in a forthright manner.I want to like this book more than I do. I am not sorry I read it, though.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A unique and sophisticated novel By Midwest Book Review Margaret Neal is a junior at Harvard who, after a disastrous liaison with unfortunate consequences drops out of school. She tries to raise money for a ticket to California by appealing to her Aunt Nell Kerwin, an ex-school teacher who lives in the old family home with only a cat for company. When Aunt Nell replies to Margaret's plea for help she encloses as a gift an odd but cherished souvenir that weaves in and out of the story as a series of crucial truths about the family's haunted and troubled history is revealed, bit by bit. Author Kitty Florey uses interlocking narratives to peel away layers of a larger story of painful events that arose from one impulsive act buried deep in the family's past and which resulted in generations of misconceptions, rationalizations, and outright lies. The reader is taken back through the 20th century to see how this family (and any family) is a rich accumulation of events that built one upon another into a complex, intergenerational fabric of stories, traditions, and secrets. In the final epilogue, Aunt Nell ruminates on the past and antipathies the future, thereby bringing the novel back to the present and a completely satisfying reorientation for the reader. Souvenir Of Cold Springs is a unique and sophisticated novel that engages the reader's attention and just won't let go from first page to last.
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