From a writer dubbed "one of the finest crime novelists" by the New York Times , a sinister story of madness, dread, and murder, set in 1950s suburban America
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From a writer dubbed "one of the finest crime novelists" by the New York Times , a sinister story of madness, dread, and murder, set in 1950s suburban America
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Fine. Book Octavo, softcover, fine in gray-green pictorial wraps. 393 pp. Edith Howland's diary is her most precious possession. After moving with her family from New York City to suburban Pennsylvania, Edith's husband abandons her for a younger woman, leaving her trapped in a bleak existence with her degenerate son and his senile uncle. As Edith's life turns sour, she retreats into her writing; and while her life plunges into chaos, a disturbing tale of success and happiness blooms in her diary.
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Edith and Brett Howland move from New York City to the small town of Brunswick Corners Pa. They hope to one day start their own newspaper and each have ambitions to publish a novel. They have a worrisome young son, Cliffie who doesn't seem to be normal and Brett has an elderly uncle, George with chronic back problems.
The years in this book just melt into one another, the Howlands make friends, Cliffie gets older and does nothing with his life and George becomes a bigger burden to Edith. Edith starts to write in her diary a fantasy life for Cliffie one where he goes to college and meets and falls in love with a young woman named Debbie. Meanwhile the real Cliffie just stays home eats gets drunk and sleeps. Brett falls in love with a younger woman and divorces Edith to marry her. As more time goes by the strain gets to Edith and she changes. She starts to become arguementive with friends and is paranoid. She writes bizarre fanatsy pieces for underground magazines. In her diary Brett is dead and Cliffie is a successful engineer who is married with two children. Brett is alerted her erratic behavior and tries to sway her into seeing a therapist for help but this angers her.
I gave this book three stars because Edith's fate felt like a rushed cop out to me. And the reader is never really privy to some moments of her bizarre behavior they are only just hinted at. I felt this could have been a much better book.
