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Monkeys
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780375708367
Edition: 1st Vintage Contemporaries ed
ISBN: 0375708367
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 176
Publication Date: August 08, 2000
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: August 08, 2000
Studio: Vintage
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Editorial Review:
NATIONAL BESTSELLERIn this luminous story of family life--the first novel by Susan Minot, author of the highly acclaimed Evening--the seven Vincent children follow their Catholic mother to Mass and spend Thanksgiving with their father's aging parents who come from a world of New England priviledge. As they grow older, they meet with the perplexing lives of adults. Susan Minot writes with delicacy and a tremendous gift for the details that decorate domestic life, and when tragedy strikes she beautifully mines the children's tenderness for each other, and their aching guardianship of what they have.
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Rating:  - The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, Sort Of
At the front of the book are both a table of contents , setting forth a chronology from 1966 to 1979, and a list of characters. The book is slim and so the reader is surprised at the fussy treatment. Gus and Rosie Vincent have six children. Dad, (Gus), goes to church Christmas and Easter only. The rest of the family, Chicky, Delilah, Caitlin, Gus, Mum, Sherman, Sophie are regular attenders. Dad has weird taste, spam. He grew up in Motley, Massachusetts. Now the parents and six children live ... Read More
Rating: - Fantastic
I've been on a Susan Minot kick, and so I just re-read this book for the first time in years.I still enjoyed every page. Minot takes readers inside a large family and puts us right in the middle of the action, or inaction. Although more like linked vingnettes than a novel, Monkeys made me think of a contemporary Cheaper by the Dozen meets the Kennedys. Her writing is flawless and the stories are so simple, so absolutely every-family, I couldn't help be be mesmerized all over again.
Rating: - The Space Between
"Monkeys" isn't a novel in the usual sense of the word. It is more of a collection of vignettes encompassing about 13 years in the life of a modern family, snapshots of moments in which we come to know each family member, then see how they change as their story progresses.
The most astonishing thing about the book is how Minot ties each piece together. For the most part, the "big" events in the life of the family happen outside the narrative itself, in the space between the snapshots we ... Read More
Rating:  - NO SYMPATHY FOR THESE CHARACTERS...
This is not a badly written 'novel', but I found that I didn't care a bit about any of these characters -- with the possible exception of the first couple of 'chapters' (and I put it that way because, to me, this really felt more like a collection of short stories -- and indeed, much of it has appeared in that form in various publications), when they were very young children.
Perhaps because of the way their parents lived and raised them, and the fact that they are so privileged financially, the ... Read More
Rating: - A moving glimpse
A moving glimpse into the world of a New England family. With such an exuberant, energetic family, enviable social connections, and vacations boating in Maine, are the Vincents living the good life? Of course not. They are miserable. Minot skillfully sketches the framework of pain underpinning these lives.
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