Embers
Registered by 
waterfalling
of Rockledge, Florida USA on 9/21/2013
This book is in a Controlled Release!
waterfalling of Rockledge, Florida USA on 9/21/2013 This book is in a Controlled Release!
2 journalers for this copy...
trade-size paperback.
from the back cover:
In a secluded woodland castle an old General prepares to receive a rare visitor, a man who was once his closest friend but whom he has not seen in forty-one years. Over the ensuing hours host and guest will fight a duel of words and silences, accusations and evasions. They will exhume the memory of their friendship and that of the General's beautiful, long-dead wife. And they will return to the time the three of them last sat together following a hunt in the nearby forest - a hunt in which no game was taken but during which something was lost forever.
Finished but did not particularly enjoy and had (to me) an unsatisfying ending.
from the back cover:
In a secluded woodland castle an old General prepares to receive a rare visitor, a man who was once his closest friend but whom he has not seen in forty-one years. Over the ensuing hours host and guest will fight a duel of words and silences, accusations and evasions. They will exhume the memory of their friendship and that of the General's beautiful, long-dead wife. And they will return to the time the three of them last sat together following a hunt in the nearby forest - a hunt in which no game was taken but during which something was lost forever.
Finished but did not particularly enjoy and had (to me) an unsatisfying ending.
Sent on as requested from the GenLit VBB.
Thanks so much for sharing! Looking forward to reading this one.
Though there is something dark and compelling about this novel, the story is so spare and the characters so weak that I can't say I liked it.
Reunited as old men after decades apart, two former friends spend a night talking about their past and the woman who was important to them both. Really, one man (the General) does all the talking, while his visitor stares at him and sometimes sweats.
Though I understand that the meeting felt like a watershed moment for the two men, for me it just seemed random and abrupt. I don't believe that either man learned anything or changed in any way, though the General seemed certain that now that he had seen his old friend again he could go ahead and die.
I was intrigued by the nurse/housekeeper, who took care of the General since he was born, but she turned out to be of no importance to the novel.
This could be great as a one-man play - really creepy and dramatic. But as a book it was boring.
Reunited as old men after decades apart, two former friends spend a night talking about their past and the woman who was important to them both. Really, one man (the General) does all the talking, while his visitor stares at him and sometimes sweats.
Though I understand that the meeting felt like a watershed moment for the two men, for me it just seemed random and abrupt. I don't believe that either man learned anything or changed in any way, though the General seemed certain that now that he had seen his old friend again he could go ahead and die.
I was intrigued by the nurse/housekeeper, who took care of the General since he was born, but she turned out to be of no importance to the novel.
This could be great as a one-man play - really creepy and dramatic. But as a book it was boring.
Releasing this in the Historical Fiction VBB.
