Friday, September 30, 2005
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger was one of the best books I've read in a long while, a love-story across lifetimes, so I was eager to read her second book, The Three Incestuous Sisters. Big on paper she made a number of books like this, carefully crafted works of art. It's a shame that in mass-publication what is presumably the carefully crafted paper of the original has been discarded in favour of the regular stuff. Without it the artwork has only a limited charm, the page where a baby is surrounded by things and their names bears a resemblance to Frida Kahlo's painting of her miscarriage. But all we have is little more than simple sketches, if this took years for Niffenegger to create, one wonders exactly what it was that took so long. Every other page is a rather simple undetailed drawing, coloured from a limited palette in solid washes of colour, there honestly doesn't seem to be that much to it.
The story? Three sisters, their relationship is shattered by a gorgeous man, he falls in love with one of them, another causes her death then commits suicide, the third survives and finds some peace. It'll take less than a half-hour to read. So this is a book you can read between meals without spoiling your appetite.
The story? Three sisters, their relationship is shattered by a gorgeous man, he falls in love with one of them, another causes her death then commits suicide, the third survives and finds some peace. It'll take less than a half-hour to read. So this is a book you can read between meals without spoiling your appetite.
