Reviews for Life's Handicap

The average rating for Life's Handicap based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-04-22 00:00:00 Michael Camacho British twits and American twits yammer on to little consequence.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-10-25 00:00:00 Fernando Rodriguez Well, Henry James light is still pretty good. This one tries to move from humorous to heavy at the end but, well, it just sort of fell flat for me. Granted it's a tale of frivolous people being frivolous so to argue that it's too frivolous is, perhaps, to miss the point. Still, I found it frivolous--and perhaps I didn't like that because I wanted the character in love to overcome frivolity. He might have done--but it's offstage--and of course he's thwarted by the frivolity of the woman for whom he's fallen--or do you suppose she rejects him because the whole thing, at that point, threatens to overturn their collective frivolity? I found it a bit mysterious but not in a pleasing way. It made me yearn to read some better James for it's been a while since I did.