Let me explain: Jamison allows the Rudolph family to solidify before our eyes. That Jamison, in this, her first novel, can creaI finished this novel two days ago and it has been in my mind ever since. The Gin Closet is like Pandora’s box: if you open it, it unleashes all your inner demons.
She, too, feels unresolved at the end.
As Stella was helping her up, Lucy says, “I need Matilda.” Stella has never heard of anyone named Matilda and asks her brother if he knows who Matilda is.This manages to be a beautifully written novel that's also a very fast read. A friend inquired as to whether the book was good - it is; very, very good - but I feel as though there are not sufficient words to express, in a review, my thoughts about the story or the writer.
Start by marking “The Gin Closet” as Want to Read: This is one of the bleakest stories I've read in a long time. dares readers to understand how and why we abrade our bodies, ourselves, to manifest the incommunicable to one another.”“Jamison is no coward…she writes courageously about disease, sex and perils of the flesh without flinching… she’ll become a strong voice in contemporary fiction.” You can’t insist on speed when you owe it not only to the readers, but to the characters themselves.
At times, Jamison's language can become distracting (her use of similes can feel a bit overblown on occasion), but overall, a good read.this really struck a chord.
As Stella was helping her up, Lucy says, “I need Matilda.” Stella has never heard of anyone named Matilda and asks her brother if he knows who Matilda is.When Stella goes to visit her Grandmother Lucy for Christmas, she finds her on the kitchen floor, where she’d fallen earlier in the day.
Tilly's life is so sad that it was hard to read about it, especially when you know there are Tillys everywhere. We’d love your help. I would not recommend this book. And the privileged Ms. Jamison did not hide her contempt for the "white trash" character Tilly and others like her. The Gin Closet unravels the strange and powerful intimacy that forms between them. Also the language that SEEMS precise, but turns out not to be. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of Andrews; I’ve not read one of those books since I was in fourth grade.
AS A YOUNG WOMAN, Tilly flees home for the hollow underworld of Nevada, looking for pure souls and finding nothing but bad habits. It is hard to imagine where they will go from here.I could not wait to be done with this book and kept hoping something interesting or unexpected would happen. Stella who is constantly trying to fix other people’s lives instead of living hers and Tilly who is just lost and broken. With an uncanny ear for dialogue and a witty, unflinching candor about sex, love, and power, Leslie Jamison reminds us that no matter how unexpected its turns, the life we’re given is all we have: the cruelties that unhinge us, the beauties that clarify us, the addictions that deform us, those fleeting possibilities of grace that fade as quickly as they come. The Gin Closet is a thin little novel with a dreamy cover that sets the author firmly in the genre of serious and literary fiction and gives no impression that the book will make major noise outside that small world of readers and writers. Stella has an affair with her married professor and also works for some hypocrite writer in NYC.
Did I wish things were speeded up a little?
One day, after Tilly has spent nearly thirty years without a family, drinking herself to the brink of death, her niece Stella—who has been leading her own life of empty promise in New York City—arrives on the doorstep of Tilly’s desert trailer.Depressing I don't mind, it's the melodrama I'm not okay with. Is that a bad thing?
I credit Jamison's writing with drawing me in quickly, and then I stayed with it, however unpleasant it got.
With an uncanny ear for dialogue and a witty, unflinching candor about sex, love, and power, Leslie Jamison reminds us that no matter how unexpected its turns, the life we’re given is all we have: the cruelties that unhinge us, the beauties that clarify us, the addictions that deform us, those fleeting possibilities of grace that fade … This manages to be a beautifully written novel that's also a very fast read. Her ability to take a string of simple words and turn them into a profound sentence blew me away on (what felt like) every page.Quite a task to read this book.
The kind of writing that had me highlighting many passages. Still, Jamison’s got such tight control, for a subject matter that could go every which way.Sometimes you pick up a book and it ends up being one of those truly amazing pieces of writing, the kind you wish you could have created when you were in your early twenties with college-angst. Which is an odd observation, I know, for a family wrecked by estrangement and indifference, and many other demons—but that’s how it is.
With an uncanny ear for dialogue and a witty, unflinching candor about sex, love, and power, Leslie Jamison reminds us that no matter how unexpected its turns, the life we’re given is all we have: the cruelties that unhinge us, the beauties that clarify us, the addictions that deform us, those fleeting possibilities of grace that fade … Stella, for her part, gets lost in her dream of fixing, finds herself literally falling in love with her new family, making her seem far less complex and empathetic and more like a desperate romantic, but still carries a certain intrigue, her own heaviness of soul.
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