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On a snowy night in the winter of 1946, Arthur Henning arrives at a New York banker's country estate. All he has with him are his young son, his sewing machine, and the painful history of the refugee—the home in Vienna he left behind, the wife and infant daughter who perished in Lonon's blitz, and the relatives and friends who disappeared into the abyss of the Holocaust. He has come to begin a new life and to forget.
Once an expert tailor, now he is employed as a chauffeur. He drives Mr. Duvall to work in the city, Mrs. Duvall to her shopping, their daughter, Agatha, to school. The job gives Arthur solace. There's a cottage for him and his son, Toby, to live in, congeniality in the mansion's kitchen with the other servants, pleasure in watching Toby grow up alongside charming little Agatha. And so there he remains for nearly a decade, hidden, unable to confront his shattered faith, his fear, and the measure of everything he has lost.
Hidden, that is, until life steps in to release Arthur from his seclusion. On orders from Mr. Duvall, he must drive Agatha to her own confinement in that peculiarly evil American institution of the 1950s, a home for unwed mothers. The Duvalls' plan to give the baby away shocks Arthur from his emotional slumber. The story of these two people—a man who has lost his past and a girl who is forced to give up her future—winds its way to a conclusion that is both inevitable and wholly unpredictable.
Infused with her trademark haunting sensibility, Carrie Brown's fourth novel is a deeply moving tale of the small miracles and large revelations of love.
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Ahsan Zahir
reviewed Confinement on May 29, 2007
Confinement
Okay, yeah, the book was good. But... I just had some issues with it. I thought the writing was lovely, and both Aggie and Arthur, who I saw as the books main protagonists, were both developed into nice, believeable characters.
Other than that... I didn't enjoy the book that much. I'm going to repeat, once again, that I have an issue with an unclear timeframe in a book. It's okay if you jump back and forth... but if you don't make it clear, I get pissed off. Also, length of time... if too much happens in such a short space of time, I just don't believe it and I'm gone. Like, with Arthur's visits to Aggie, he only went three times... yet it was written out to seem that he visited her practically every weekend until the baby was born. Yeah.
I thought that the issue of the persecution of the Jews was touched on nicely. Not so much as it happened, but more of a reflection on what happened in Arthur's life and how he remembers it and later reflects on it. Also how it affects him and his son.
I had a problem with the relationship between Aggie and Toby. You find out early on in the book that Toby is Aggie's baby's daddy, so I'm not giving anything away here. But we only maybe see them together once or twice when they're older, but loads of time together when they were younger... perhaps though that was Carrie Brown's intent. Arthur kept seeing these two as young children. Not the grown man and woman they were becoming... so maybe that's how we were supposed to see them as well. Who knows, all I know is I wanted to see their relationship a little more.
Just so you know, I read an Advanced Edition of the book, so I don't know how much has changed from this book to the released book. With the exception of a few spelling/grammar errors, I don't see much else changing though. Overall the book was okay. I'm tired, boo.
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