![]() ![]() ![]() There are also other kinds of love in this latest story, including a case of puppy love that develops into mindless, murderous rage. ![]() ![]() Quindlen, whose narrative style could make a page-turner out of a gas bill, won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary, and is the author of other novels and nonfiction books. This isn’t a novel of entertainment, though the first half has some wry and amusing comment on American family life with a dog named Ginger. Only in the second half does the disaster artfully emerge, and the dimensions of the grief it evokes. At least one family is prosperous enough to afford a Christmas gift of two round-trip tickets to London for a literary daughter, still in high school. In the first half of Anna Quindlen’s “Every Last One,” the many characters, some lightly sketched, live ordinary lives in a contemporary atmosphere of mundane concerns: What can stop whole colonies of bees from disappearing? What wages should be paid to illegal Mexican immigrants?Īlmost all are educated, well-off people in a small American city. This is a novel on old-fashioned themes: mother’s love and, perhaps even deeper, mother’s grief. ![]()
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