Item Price ¤0.00 Show Details Description: W. Despite them, here is a commendably ambitious and disturbing successor to Eve Green. Oystercatchers: A Novel by Fletcher, Susan Condition Used - Good ISBN 10 0393060039 Quantity-available 1 Seller SecondSale Montgomery, Illinois, USA Seller rating: This seller has earned a 3 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers. Her nose felt pink." Invidious to draw attention to these blemishes perhaps, but the standard of writing is often so high as to make such infelicities stand out. Quite as irksome is a tendency to use short staccato sentences that break up sense without obvious compensating effect: "The guesthouse said No vacancies, and no ginger cat sprawled there. The account of Moira's schooldays, when she distances herself from her family, tends to dreariness and could have been pared down. Less successful is her apparent belief that stacking up descriptions of the tiniest domestic detail adds to the narrative. She admits to her childhood selfishness which deeply hurt her family to her savagery at boarding school to the wild, bitter and destructrive heart that she carried into her adult life. "A ball of starlings rolls across the sky" oystercatchers stalk the shoreline. The second novel from highly acclaimed young writer Susan Fletcher, author of the award-winning ‘Eve Green’ Amy lies in a coma. Her older sister, Moira, comes to her in the evenings, sits beside her in a green-walled hospital room. Birds are a common symbol, whether of sadness or a wild uplift of spirit. We feel the earth turn." "I've felt the world darken and the clouds race".
Usually this intense interaction works beautifully: "So we wait, Ray and I. Like Candida Clark, Fletcher works that rich vein of poetic prose in which characters' emotions are closely bound up with objects and landscape.
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