Reviews for Finders & keepers

The average rating for Finders & keepers based on 2 reviews is 1.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-08-26 00:00:00 Julie Fugitt I couldn't finish this one because of poor writing, plain and simple. And it's irritating to read "sentences" that alternate between incomplete sentences and run-ons. The premise is interesting enough: a woman traces her marriage to a man who has an accident and lands in a wheelchair. Maybe other folks would find it a good book, but I don't.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-03-14 00:00:00 Shan Varughese I don't know where I picked this book up; it's been lying in my to-read pile for ages. But I finally the teaser blurb and decided to read it because I have a friend who knew the author's husband, Andre Dubus II, and is friends with her stepson, author Andre Dubus III. This book is a fictionalized account the senior Dubus's affair with a co-ed who would become his wife, their marriage, the accident his legs, and how that loss affected the marriage. Even though this is fiction, after reading the younger Dubus' memoir "Townie' about growing up in blue-collar Haverhill vs. the more upscale Bradford where his dad taught, it is clear that layer of fiction over this tale is very thin. "Gravity" just tells the tale from a different respective. If I hadn't read 'Townie' or remembered the news accounts of the accident and the followups about Dubus later in his life, it might not have struck such a cord. This is a story of falling in love, struggling in love, and the death of a marriage, precipated by Dubus's horrible accident. The story moves back and forth from present to past, which makes it a little hard to follow. But the writing is strong and straightforward. Rambach's young wife (both she and her character Ellie are 20 years younger than their husbands) comes across as angry that her husband played good Samaritan, a decision that cost him his legs, and their life together as they knew it. But she also comes across as a woman who loved her (older) man but just couldn't live with him any longer.