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Asked by a publisher to write a preface to her late husband’s novel, Edna defiantly sets out to write a separate book “not just about Clarence but also about my life, as one could not pretend to understand Clarence without that.” Simultaneously her neighbor asks her to care for an apartment full of plants and animals. The demands of the living things – a rat, fish, ferns – compete for Edna's attention with long-repressed memories. Day by day pages of seemingly random thoughts fall from her typewriter. Gradually taking shape within the mosaic of memory is the story of a remarkable marriage and of a mind pushed to its limits.
Is Edna’s memoir a homage to her late husband or an act of belated revenge? Was she the cultured and hypersensitive victim of a crass and brutally ambitious husband, or was he the caretaker of a neurotic and delusional wife? The reader must decide.
The unforgettable characters in Savage's two hit novels Firmin and The Cry of the Sloth garnered critical acclaim, selling a million copies worldwide. In Edna, once again Sam Savage has created a character marked by contradiction--simultaneously appealing and exasperating, comical and tragic.
- Sales Rank: #2370742 in eBooks
- Published on: 2011-08-23
- Released on: 2011-08-23
- Format: Kindle eBook
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
A rare, revelatory experience
By Kimberly Wade
Sam Savage's Glass is the story of Edna, a writer who has been asked to write a preface for the re-issue of her late husband's one novel. But that's not what she wants to write. She wants to write her own story, and she does so in a stream of consciousness style that delivers a deeply moving sense of isolation, of being behind glass like the neighbor's fish and the rat in the terrarium Edna's reluctantly agreed to care for.
And there's a further conflict: Edna doesn't respect her Hemmingway-esque husband's work. "...Clarence was not a thinking person. In fact he was able to do what he did and, incidentally, write the way he wrote, only because he was simply blind to alternatives, his sentences stamping across the page like little soldiers, each armed with a dangerously active little verb." And later: "I told him it was not up to the events to make the story significant, but the other way around, but he was never able to see it that way."
Another quote that struck me: "It was an epoch when being authentic seemed important to people. It is interesting how things that seem obvious and are even part of the atmosphere of a certain epoch become incredible later--now, it seems, something or somebody can be blatantly fake and nobody cares." Yeah, what about that?!
Edna's story reflects perfectly what it is like to be alone with one's thoughts for a long time without trying to assert any control over them. It's its own revelatory sense of pleasure. As she writes, "I am trying to make the really simple point that summoning thoughts is out of the question: they just come, and the matter seems complicated only because it is really so simple. That is often the case, I suppose, simple things being slippery because they don't possess any angles by which one can get a firm grip on them." Edna prevaricates because she realizes reality can't be pinned down, her thoughts are just thoughts and her memories may not be true. It's all slippery.
So, if you like plot, this is probably not for you. If you like stream of consciousness in a witty, distinctive voice, you may love it as much as I did. And I loved it for one more reason. When Edna searches for a photo she used as a bookmark--"I finally remembered, in The Lord of the Rings, which I was trying to read a few years ago--trying once again, that is, there was such talk about it after they made it into a movie, though I was just as bored as the first time..." I'm not alone!
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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
A review based on the first half of the book!
By Rebecca Freihaut
Well, I sat in front of the computer staring at the question, "How do you rate this item?" for quite a while before settling on four stars. I need to confess that it is impossible for me to accurately rate this book because I did not finish it. In fact, I didn't even get half way through. I only rated the book as highly as I did because I think the author is a good writer...emphasis on the words "I think".
This book was the most annoying book I've ever read, but maybe that was the point? The main character, who tells her story through a typewriter in her apartment, is the most tedious, type A, possibly mental person I've ever encountered in a book. So in that regard, the author was successful in his creation of such a grating, and genuinely irritating person. But my question is...why? I wouldn't want to spend 30 minutes next to this lady on a bus, so why would I want to devote more than a week reading about her every thought? And, yes, I do mean more than a week. I am a very fast reader, but I literally couldn't digest more than 15-20 pages of this book at a time. If you're into plot driven books, don't even bother. In the 90 pages I read, almost nothing happens. The book is driven by the daily stream-of-conscious thoughts of a lady who's husband has died, has left her job (without actually quitting), and who's big events of the day include going to the coffee shop or getting a knock on the door by the only other occupant of her apartment building.
My next paragraph will be an attempt to write in the style of this book:
"I am sitting at my keyboard for many minutes before continuing. By many minutes, I mean three minutes. I know because I looked at the clock as I was waiting. Which I suppose isn't "many" minutes, but really just a few. Because after all people say "a couple" for two, "a few" for three and "many" for anything over three, but not always. That's odd, I am thinking to myself, that sometimes "a few" means more than three, but there's no way to know for sure without asking. So if someone asks me to pick up a few oranges at the store, do they mean three or five? Not that anyone would ask me to pick up anything at the store at this point in my life, as I am living alone. I suppose it is possible that my neighbor could ask me to pick up oranges, though it is highly unlikely, as she does her own shopping and may not even like oranges."
If you think you could tolerate this type of writing for over 200 pages without having an aneurysm, then this book might be for you! I may try to finish this book in the future, since I still haven't decided if the author is a literary genius or if he has a complete disregard of the desires(and sanity) of the reader!
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
There's a Pony in Here Somewhere
By Norman Patrick
Meandering is the description that springs to mind. The book records the meandering memories of a confused or perhaps confusing, lonely, old woman. It has no paragraphs which makes it hard to put down because it is hard to find where you stopped reading. While reading it, I kept wondering why I kept at it. I think because it reminded me of the little girl who wanted a pony for Christmas. Instead she received a pile of manure. Spying the manure, she beamed with joy. Asked why she is happy about a pile of manure, she says, "With all this manure, there has to be a pony in here somewhere." So, I kept reading looking for the pony. It is there, but you have to keep reading.
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