Jacob's Room
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ISBN:0156457423
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Who is Jacob Flanders? In Virginia Woolf’s 1922 novel, Jacob’s Room, we follow the life of a promising young man through glimpses of him given by female friends and relatives. From childhood to youth and manhood, we watch Jacob grow and mature in the eyes of the women in his life. When World War I breaks out, Jacob goes away to war and the women who love him must stay behind, trying to hold on to their memories of him. A dreamy and haunting story about hope and tragedy in a time of devastating conflict, Jacob’s Room will leave any reader dazzled with its gentle but subtly powerful vision.
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Opening Lines (Experimental)
"So of course," wrote Betty Flanders, pressing her heels rather deeper in the sand, "there was nothing for it but to leave."
Slowly welling from the point of her gold nib, pale blue ink dissolved the full stop; for there her pen stuck; her eyes fixed, and tears slowly filled them. The entire bay ...
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4/5
Reviewed by readingrat on May 20, 2009
Jacob's Room on the Installment Plan
This is a well written, complex piece of literature. Unfortunately this is the type of story that should be read with concentration and tends to suffer a bit when it is chopped up and meted out daily.
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