Reviews for Fanny Herself

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

Review # 1 was written on 2019-06-23 00:00:00 Susan Bracken Don't know how I missed this in 2004, but it is an exceptionally strong family novel. The rotating points of view of the members of the Cohen family, the sisters, brothers, lovers, etc., are done with great care and compassion. It's hard to know how Reisman knows as much about all these people as she does. Louts, shut-ins, egomaniacs, avatars of duty and responsibility, they are all handled with the same Woolfian perspicacity. Also, the author recreates 1929-1950, in Buffalo, NY, with vividness and clarity. The trajectory of the whole is sad, grim, accurate, in a way, e.g., that cinema can no longer do or is unwilling to do, such that one does have the realist "aha" that is the great virtue of novels in this idiom. As a person who himself wrote a family novel once upon a time, I can say that this is as good an example as I have read recently, by a writer who deserves well more attention than she has so far gotten.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-07-28 00:00:00 Zane Wagoner Onvan : The First Desire - Nevisande : Nancy Reisman - ISBN : 1400077990 - ISBN13 : 9781400077991 - Dar 320 Safhe - Saal e Chap : 2004