05-26-2023, 03:27 PM
(05-26-2023, 01:20 PM)Greg Wrote: Ghostlight by Joseph O'Connor
The tragic romance between Molly Allgood and John Milton Synge starts sad and then becomes tragic. From the blurbs on the back cover, people loved this book. I did not.
It's a stream of consciousness novel that jumps between two time periods. The first is when Allgood and Synge are having their romance and getting ready for marriage. The second period is Mary as old destitute woman in London living out her last days. It's also told in the first person and that bothered me. I saw it as a gimmick and kept waiting for the author to stop. Both time periods are unhappy. The romance between Synge and Allgood seems constantly on the verge of falling apart. Except for the last letter between the two of them, there doesn't seem to be any reason for them to be together. The last section is of an alcoholic woman struggling to exist a squalid flat in London panhandling for money to buy booze.
Good times.
The "Pulitzer" method continues.
In the Tudor Period, Fencing Masters were classified in the Vagrancy Laws along with Actors, Gypsys, Vagabonds, Sturdy Rogues, and the owners of performing bears.