Reviews for Willowwood

The average rating for Willowwood based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-12-06 00:00:00 Steve locke Locke Any artist would enjoy this book about the relationship between Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Elizabeth Siddal and their involvement in the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood in 19th century England. although I'd viewed pictures of their work I didn't appreciate it until I saw a couple huge paintings at the Prado in Madrid. It wasn't that the work had any deep philosophical meaning but only that it was stunningly beautiful and I that's all it had to be. Rossetti as a character is rather hard to stomach but as with all people of genius we forgive that they weren't decent human beings because their work is their legacy.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-02-18 00:00:00 Hugo bonilla Bonilla At its worst, this novella is a prolonged & sorrowful swan song. An existential meditation. At its peak however, it remains a radical exercise in stream-of-consciousness narration. Although reminiscent of Virginia Woolf at her most coherent, it's a relief to have a book that does not require trips to the ever-faithful dictionary. And gratefully, this work is not rife with pretensions-galore (a-la "Book of Illusions," which is thankfully newly off the '1001 Best Books' List) and has the amount of imagination and sense of wonderment/awe which a work like this demands. The whole book in P.O.V. of a dog: there are moments when you think the author will absolutely fail, and the time seems impending... though it never really comes. Paul Auster succeeds in telling a sad, simple, organic tale of the universal connection that makes everyone part of the biological Brotherhood/Sisterhood/Universe. Even dogs with men connect; even a dog's innermost psyche has substantial clout in the actual, outside real world.