Five Minutes in Heaven by Lisa Alther
Totally, Totally Gripping
The author of Kinflicks narrates the story of a Tennessee woman who
comes of age during the 1950s and 1960s, suffers the early death of her
mother, and has relationships with a gay man and a married woman.
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Personal Review: Five Minutes in Heaven by Lisa Alther
I can see why some readers would be put off by this book. The stress on
feminism and lesbianism is insistent (though not nearly as unsubtly so as
in some of Alther's other books), and the characters are quite cliched -
polite Southerners, aloof Northerners, sensitive gays, sophisticated but
tricky Parisians and the like. At the same time, the passion and love that
are the book's main subject and the light, understatedly dramatic writing
style used to depict them are such that the reader will forget about the
cliches and be drawn into the story, which is totally, totally gripping. Like
the love it describes, Alther's novel has a haunting, obsessive quality
which I have seldom seen surpassed in other works of fiction. A modern
classic!

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