Chloe Benjamin
Autore di The Immortalists
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Chloe Benjamin is an American author, born in San Francisco, California. She is a graduate of Vassar College and received her MFA in Fiction at the University of Wisconsin. In addition to writing, she teaches workshops on the business of publishing. Her first novel, The Anatomy of Dreams, received mostra altro the Edna Ferber Fiction Book Award. The Immortalist is her second novel and was published in January 2018. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Opere di Chloe Benjamin
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- Data di nascita
- 20th century
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Madison, Wisconsin, USA
- Istruzione
- Vassar College
University of Wisconsin-Madison - Attività lavorative
- novelist
- Breve biografia
- Chloe Benjamin is the author of the novels THE IMMORTALISTS--a #1 Indie Next Pick, #1 LibraryReads Pick and Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection--and THE ANATOMY OF DREAMS, which received the Edna Ferber Fiction Book Award and was longlisted for the 2014 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. A San Francisco native, Benjamin is a graduate of Vassar College and of the University of Wisconsin, where she received her MFA in fiction. She lives with her husband in Madison, Wisconsin.
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- Opere
- 2
- Utenti
- 3,571
- Popolarità
- #7,097
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 201
- ISBN
- 48
- Lingue
- 9
This book lacks cohesion. It reads like a series of vignettes only loosely bound by the family ties. The ups and downs in writing were difficult to deal with and I was considering quitting for the majority of the middle part. Some of it was really disappointing to the point of absurdity (the end of Daniel's story).
Things only got better at the end of the final chapter when writing gets much better, but by then it's too late.
Of all the main characters in the book, I only cared for Klara, whose end was not convincing to me.
The story didn't really live up to its premise. It opened a lot of interesting questions, which is fine if you want to discuss this in a book club, but the way it was executed was disappointing.
Overall, for a book that comes with so many trigger warnings, I'd expect more payoff.