Tutto Da Capo (2011)

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Author

Cathleen Schine

Genre

Romance

Rating

2.87 of 5 Votes: 1

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ISBN

8804605979 (ISBN13: 9788804605973)

Language

English

Publisher

Mondadori (Oscar)

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About book Tutto Da Capo (2011)

I thoroughly enjoyed this novel. It's quite funny in parts and I loved that the three main characters ranged in age from almost 50 to 70 something. I thought the author captured the inner lives of the characters beautifully and wittily. I laughed in embarrassed sympathy rather often. I give it my well-written-enjoyable-read 5 stars, as distinct from my great-literature or my profound-comment-on-life 5-star ratings. If it had not been proudly listed in the description of this book, I would never have associated this whiney, weak-womaned novel with Sense and Sensibility at all. I'm sorry, Jane Austen, that anyone would use your genius work to compare this sorry excuse for a remake of your novel. I was intrigued by the idea of two sisters picking up and moving everything familiar in life to go live with their recently divorced mother in a cottage on the East Coast, but was sorely disappointed to discover that the characters of this novel were wavering, mismanaged, weak and self-pitying in the extreme.