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Jeffrey Lent

Autor/a de In the Fall

9+ obres 1,741 Membres 65 Ressenyes 5 preferits

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Inclou aquests noms: Jeffrey Lent, Jeffery Lent, Jefferey Lent

Obres de Jeffrey Lent

In the Fall (2000) 924 exemplars
Lost Nation (2002) 396 exemplars
A Peculiar Grace (2007) 178 exemplars
A Slant of Light (2015) 119 exemplars
After You've Gone: A Novel (2009) 83 exemplars
Before We Sleep (2017) 38 exemplars
Φθινόπωρο (2002) 1 exemplars
IN THE FALL 1 exemplars

Obres associades

Contemporary Vermont Fiction: An Anthology (2014) — Col·laborador — 5 exemplars

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Nom oficial
Lent, Jeffrey
Data de naixement
ca 1960
Gènere
male
Nacionalitat
USA
Lloc de naixement
Vermont, USA
Llocs de residència
Vermont, USA (birth)
New York, USA
North Carolina, USA
Educació
Franconia College (Literature ∙ Psychology)
State University of New York, Purchase (Literature ∙ Psychology)
Biografia breu
Jeffrey Lent lives in Vermont with his wife and two daughters.

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The long winded, overly complex sentences with awkward phrasing made the book difficult to read. The random unrelated details and incidents slowed down a slow story about a wrought iron artist living alone in a rural setting. The unexpected arrival of a bipolar? wandering miscreant introduced a possible distraction, but when the 40ish male protagonist reveals he still pines on his love from 20 years ago (a woman who was right to dump him) I had to roll my eyes. When he feels compelled to drop in on her a week or so after her husband dies in a car crash, and when she eventually lets him in to her kitchen and confesses he died after hitting a cow because he was driving drunk after being with her sister, I got bored. What a ridiculous soap opera with excessive drama and emotions. It felt like I had been reading the book for ever and was barely over a third through. I skipped ahead a bit and saw more ridiculous drama and didn't care a wit. Not wanting to waste any more time, I put the book in the donation bin.… (més)
 
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LDVoorberg | Hi ha 8 ressenyes més | Nov 22, 2020 |

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Obres
9
També de
1
Membres
1,741
Popularitat
#14,771
Valoració
3.8
Ressenyes
65
ISBN
69
Llengües
5
Preferit
5

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