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When William Lowry writes to Emily Byrne–I don’t know if you know that you know me–the seventeen-year-old hardly suspects that his life, along with the rest of America, is about to change forever. But the day Emily receives the letter and composes a response–I know who you are. In fact, I remember you from a bunch of times–is also the day that Robert Kennedy is shot. In Minnesota, even as the tumultuous summer of 1968 has begun, first love cares little for matters of time and place.
William and Emily fall hard, despite the fact that he and his family are determined to wrestle with the system while she and hers are conservative, God-fearing Catholics. Together, the young lovers grow into each other and decide to escape to the wilderness to start anew. Left behind to grapple with the shifting mores of the nation and the sundering of their families, the Lowrys and the Byrnes must search for both their children and their own lost innocence.
Masterfully rendering both young love and the unrest of the 1960s Robert Clark has crafted a work that is at once intimate and grand.
This is a novel that deftly traces an enduring fissure in American family life and culture.
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Clifton Mcguffey
reviewed Love among the Ruins: A Novel on June 13, 2019
Love among the Ruins: A Novel
Read for the PopSugar Challenge 2019
47.Two books that share the same title (1)
One could ask why I'm reading this, after getting to the not so pleasant parts where Clark thinks it necessary to write scenes where a teen boy masturbates or a teen girl in her teens is touched by her boyfriend in quite explicit detail.
Well, the writing is atrocious and the plot, through predictable, drags on forever. But I wanted two books with the same title, and this could not differ more from the book I had read earlier. Not recommendable. And to think this one is labelled under romance.
Another bonus from this book is having terrible dialogues, almost copied from movies, portraying Catholics as particularly fanatical or lukewarm, and many other fascinating tropes.
The girl is the daughter of Catholics, a lukewarm father and a pious mother. This "Catholic schoolgirls are particularly involved in sexual stuff" trope is so disgusting and overdone that I am surprised at how people keep getting away with it.
When your prose is bad, you don't "spice it up" by objectifying women and girls, you throw the draft into the nearest trashcan and keep practicing.
It's almost John Green levels of bad. Fanfiction levels of bad. Doesn't compare to its namesake: Evelyn Waugh's Love Among the Ruins: A Romance of the Near Future
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