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Afterwards | 
 enlarge | Author: Rachel Seiffert
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.3 x 1.3
ISBN: 0375422609
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.92
EAN: 9780375422607
ASIN: 0375422609
Publication Date: July 10, 2007
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 Boring, boring, boring November 1, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
So slow and tedious that I couldn't even finish it. What is all the fuss about? Beautiful, spare writing? Hardly. Utterly insipid and crashingly dull.
 Sparse but brilliant writing March 9, 2007
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is a sparse and haunting novel that explores filial and romantic relationships, both intact and broken. Alice's relationships with her mother, stepfather, father, grandfather and grandmother are delicately drawn by Seiffert in her pared down yet powerful prose, but it is her relationship with Joseph that is central to the novel. Seiffert's description early in the novel of their realisation that they are beginning to love one another is beautifully done and touchingly empathetic. It would be too simplistic to describe them as damaged, she by the natural father who abandoned her and has recently broken written contact with her, and he by his experiences in the army in Northern Ireland. They are incredibly realised characters. For contemporary fiction, it is rare to have depictions of very ordinary individuals with ordinary jobs and families, and Seiffert gives the reader a balanced portrayal of all the characters. The promise that the reader saw in her collection of novellas, The Dark Room, and her collection of short stories, Field Study, is fulfilled in this her first novel. Destined to be on the Booker shortlist for 2007. Superb.
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