Still Life with Bread Crumbs
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This novel begins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between the two is a wry and knowing portrait of Rebecca Winter, a photographer whose work made her an unlikely heroine for many women. Her career is now descendent, her bank balance shaky, and she has fled the expensive world she knows in New York City, sublet her apartment, and move to a small, inexpensive cabin in the country, where her life falls into a quieter rhythm. There she discovers, in a tree stand with a roofer named Jim Bates, that what she sees through a camera lens is not all there is to life.
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A good read. Typical Anna Quindlen. Engaging characters who are struggling with their lives and their baggage, featuring a once well-known NYC photographer who wants to find a purpose for the rest of her life. The novel is about a year in the life of Rebecca Winter who flees NYC to a rundown house in the country looking for inspiration and a way out of her financial difficulties. She finds both of those things and a lot more.
I was looking forward to this book because I've always loved Anna Quindlen and felt I could relate to the story of a divorced older woman, since I am one! Unfortunately I didn't relate to it or enjoy it as much as I had hoped. That isn't to say there still weren't sections/paragraphs/sentenced I highlighted as examples of great writing, or that I didn't enjoy it. I just had a hard time getting into it and didn't get emotionally involved in the story. Still, all in all, not a bad way to spend a day if you have a chance to spend it reading.
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