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The Pure Weight of the Heart - Antonella Gambotto

Description: ISBN 0753806762 / Author: Antonella Gambotto / Genre: Fiction / After her wealthy father dies, ten-year-old Angelica is all but abandoned ... more

The Pure Weight of the Heart - Antonella Gambotto ... by her mother when she remarries. Lonely and disillusioned, she grows up drifting from one unhappy relationship to another until she eventually finds love.

Newest Review: ... Angelica's fathers death was a violent one, and in an effort to make a new life, their mother uproots the children to ... more

... Australia and a life of excessive compensatory though shallow romance, until she meets Aldo and marries him. What I found so upsetting in the book was the way in which it is worded. It is purposeful and is written in first person, the narrator being Angelica herself. Seemingly detached from reality, as the story unfolds, the reader can actually feel why both Angelica and her brother escape into a reality of their own. In his case, drugs and excessive use of cocaine. In her case, the manner in which she describes the rela...more

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The Pure Weight of the Heart - Antonella Gambotto: SEX, DRUGS AND EXCESSES. (744 words)
by - written on 06/09/06 (Very useful, 136 readings)
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I like reading authors I have never read before, ones whose work I am not familiar with and tempted by the cover of this book, with its' mystery and perhaps darkness, I took a plunge into a read I was not really prepared for. Antonella Gambotto is an extraordinarily complex writer, sometimes tripping over her own intellect, though for good reason. I shall try and explain. We all have thought processes. We all think things that we would fail to put into words, and this lady not only put the words on the page, but made them work. The story is of Angelica, a child who loses her father at the age of 10. Her mother is somewhat of a drama queen, and whilst her loss ... Read the complete review