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swestlake's review against another edition
dark
emotional
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
lilnuns's review
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
This is a book I could read time and time again. The way the author jumps from thought to reality so quickly is so intriguing. It already feels like the more I read it, the more I understand her mind. The twists and turns of all the thoughts we get while experiencing something/someone. Gail wrote romantic and heart wrenching poetry in the form of a novel.
canadiantiquarian's review
2.0
Years later, and years older than Heroine, the book reads like far-left stream-of-conscious YA.
extraordinary_machine's review against another edition
emotional
funny
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
crossbun's review
5.0
Experimental, compelling and confounding. Queer, feminist cut-up style stoned dreams of love and power and glued back together in the obscure and radical political discord of 70s Quebec.
bookalong's review against another edition
5.0
"The heroine keeps walking. Wondering why a woman can't get what she wants without going into business on every front. Social, political, economic, domestic. Each requiring a different way of walking, a different way of talking. She looks instinctively for her own reflection in a store window. But it's as yet too dark to see clearly."
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Coachhousebooks re-released this book last month. Originally published in 1987, It's a very interesting read! Political, feminist and queer.
We find our narrator, Heroine in Montreal in the 1980's laying in a bathtub. In a dream like sequence her memories of love and politics from the unsettling times of Montreal in the 70's float to the surface, seeing her struggle between finding love and breaking her deep ties in left wing politics, with the backdrop of volitile times in Montreal made this a tense and potent read.
Heroine is a complicated/facinating narrator, with many layers. And Scott's writting is brilliant, the way she weaves a sentance sheesh it inspired me want to write more. The structure of this novel and story itself are really well done. I found myself thinking about this book when I wasn't reading it, wanting to read it but not wanting it to end.
I loved that this is a Canadian story, showcasing a piece of turbulent history from Montreal. Knowing this made it feel all the more realistic.
This is a true Canadian and Feminist Classic!
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Thank you to the publisher for sending me this book opinions are my own.
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For more of my book content check out instagram.com/bookalong
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Coachhousebooks re-released this book last month. Originally published in 1987, It's a very interesting read! Political, feminist and queer.
We find our narrator, Heroine in Montreal in the 1980's laying in a bathtub. In a dream like sequence her memories of love and politics from the unsettling times of Montreal in the 70's float to the surface, seeing her struggle between finding love and breaking her deep ties in left wing politics, with the backdrop of volitile times in Montreal made this a tense and potent read.
Heroine is a complicated/facinating narrator, with many layers. And Scott's writting is brilliant, the way she weaves a sentance sheesh it inspired me want to write more. The structure of this novel and story itself are really well done. I found myself thinking about this book when I wasn't reading it, wanting to read it but not wanting it to end.
I loved that this is a Canadian story, showcasing a piece of turbulent history from Montreal. Knowing this made it feel all the more realistic.
This is a true Canadian and Feminist Classic!
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Thank you to the publisher for sending me this book opinions are my own.
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For more of my book content check out instagram.com/bookalong
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