However, what did strike me about Hogan's story were the comments in her afterword in which she explains her inspiration for the book.
I found the alternating points of view, flip-flopping chronology, flat characters, and varying verb tenses distracting and irritating. For as modest a length as it is, it took a ridiculous amount of time to get through. The past is a heavy chain to break.I didn't particularly enjoy this story. A confluence of family history and tragedy serves to crystalize the complexities of dysfunctional sisterly love, and the difficulties of relational restoration even between well-meaning individuals.
Mary Hogan's "Two Sisters" examines the relationship between golden-child Pia and her dowdy younger sister, Muriel. It can be a best friend moving away, a human time machine who can transport you back to the Civil War, or a sideshow automaton able to glimpse the bittersweet future.Ĭome and savor Ray Bradbury's priceless distillation of all that is eternal about boyhood and summer. But as young Douglas is about to discover, summer can be more than the repetition of established rituals whose mystical power holds time at bay. It is yesteryear and tomorrow blended into an unforgettable always. It is a pair of brand-new tennis shoes, the first harvest of dandelions for Grandfather's renowned intoxicant, the distant clang of the trolley's bell on a hazy afternoon. Twelve-year-old Douglas Spaulding knows Green Town, Illinois, is as vast and deep as the whole wide world that lies beyond the city limits. Dandelion Wine stands out in the Bradbury literary canon as the author's most deeply personal work, a semi-autobiographical recollection of a magical small-town summer in 1928. Ray Bradbury's moving recollection of a vanished golden era remains one of his most enchanting novels.
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