On 2010-02-12 Sara Wesolowski, Pittsburgh, PA United States wrote: In what is perhaps one of the most well-known novels of the 20th century, Virginia paints the portrait of the Ramsey family living in their summer home on an island off the coast of Scotland at three pivotal moments. It´s a simple story, but painfully beautiful in the telling.
Written entirely in stream of conciousness, Woolf takes it one-step further than most and jumps from the thoughts of one person to the next with little to no warning. This can make it difficult to follow for many, but I only lost myself once and quickly figured it out. This is a storytelling device that has always greatly appealled to me and Woolf did not disappoint. The prose itself was more poetry than anything and many of the passages the words are strung together so beautifully that I can only describe it as hearbreaking. I am not a rereader of novels, but I could easily see myself reading this book once a year.
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Mariner Books claimed A landmark of modern fiction, Virginia Woolf´s To the Lighthouse explores the subjective reality of everyday life in the Hebrides for the Ramsay family.
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