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About Liza Klaussmann
See more books from this AuthorPassive-aggressive Helena, instead of dumping Avery, blames all her problems on the admittedly bossy Nick and encourages creepily detached Ed to resent Nick too.
Jun 01 2012 | Read Full Review of Tigers in Red Weather: A NovelJust when a tide of gin and jazz threatens to sweep you away, a startling image – a woman's pubic hair compared to "a flat vine growing up a trellis", a child describing a mutilated corpse looking "as if someone had taken a cookie-cutter and stamped out her skin" – will throw you back on to the s...
Aug 18 2012 | Read Full Review of Tigers in Red Weather: A Novel(There's a dead body, I will say that.) Too often in novels gaps feel manipulative, but here they are integral to the structure of the novel: relay-style, narration is handed from one character to the next across five sections and a quarter of a century.
Aug 08 2012 | Read Full Review of Tigers in Red Weather: A NovelMeanwhile, Nick and Hughesâs surprisingly well-adjusted daughter, Daisy, is engaged to a man with not so subtle designs on her nearly acquiescent mother, while Ed, Daisyâs childhood confidant and Helenaâs creepy son, is hell-bent on ensuring Daisy is treated with respect, no matter what the...
Jun 25 2012 | Read Full Review of Tigers in Red Weather: A NovelCousins Nick and Helena grew up sharing sultry, luxurious summers in Nick's lovely family home, Tiger House.
Jul 21 2012 | Read Full Review of Tigers in Red Weather: A NovelTIGERS IN RED WEATHER is the debut novel of Herman Melville’s third great-granddaughter, a work of extraordinary talent by a long-time New York Times journalist.
Jul 27 2012 | Read Full Review of Tigers in Red Weather: A NovelLiterature has taught us that affluent WASP families especially the kind who drink away their feelings and spend seasons on idyllic islands with houses that have their own names tend to implode in rather spectacular fashion.
Jul 25 2012 | Read Full Review of Tigers in Red Weather: A NovelKlaussmann is the great-great-great-granddaughter of the American novelist Herman Melville, but it’s a different literary icon, Hemingway, whose influence is apparent in the simplicity of her language and observations: “It was a perfect martini and he sat there thinking about that and ab...
Aug 08 2012 | Read Full Review of Tigers in Red Weather: A NovelHe gets an eyeful after following a man who's been carrying on with his family's Portuguese maid behind the tennis courts.With echoes of Nancy Drew murder mysteries and The Great Gatsby that extend well beyond the names Nick and Daisy â plus allusions to Wallace Stevens, to which it owes its ab...
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Aug 11 2012 | Read Full Review of Tigers in Red Weather: A NovelKlaussmann begins slowly but inspiringly with Nick’s point of view as she traces the beginning of her married life, her feelings of disappointment at Hughes’s emotional distance, his conventional attitudes, her desire to be something more than his wife.
Aug 04 2012 | Read Full Review of Tigers in Red Weather: A NovelIn the days following the end of the Second World War, the world seems to offer itself up, and the two women are on the cusp of their 'real lives': Helena is off to Hollywood and a new marriage, while Nick is heading for a reunion with her own young husband, Hughes, about to return from the war.
Jul 24 2012 | Read Full Review of Tigers in Red Weather: A NovelNick and Helena had both looked forward to a life of bliss ahead, but as the years pass it doesn’t seem that their lives will turn out that way, especially when in 1959 Daisy, Nick’s daughter, and Helen’s son Ed find a dead body at Tiger House and family secrets begin slowly to unravel.
Aug 02 2012 | Read Full Review of Tigers in Red Weather: A NovelIn the days following the end of the Second World War, the world seems to offer itself up, and the two women are on the cusp of their ‘real lives’: Helena is off to Hollywood and a new marriage, while Nick is heading for a reunion with her own young husband, Hughes, about to return from the war.
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Jul 30 2012 | Read Full Review of Tigers in Red Weather: A NovelThe central portion of the novel takes place in the summer of 1959, when Daisy and Ed now entering adolescence, discover the dead body of a murder victim while staying at Tiger House with Nick and Helena.
Aug 08 2012 | Read Full Review of Tigers in Red Weather: A NovelJaime Boler, Laurel, MS Set against the backdrop of postWorld War II America, this novel tells of cousins who return to their familys estate on Marthas Vineyard one summer in the hope that nostalgia for better times will bring comfort to their disappointing lives.
Nov 30 2012 | Read Full Review of Tigers in Red Weather: A NovelThe unsolved murder looms like an accusation over the Derringer clan ("everything is becoming infected," Nick says), casting a sinister light on the family's domestic deceits.
Jul 20 2012 | Read Full Review of Tigers in Red Weather: A NovelThe unsolved murder looms like an accusation over the Derringer clan ("everything is becoming infected," Nick says), casting a sinister light on the family's domestic deceits.
Jul 20 2012 | Read Full Review of Tigers in Red Weather: A NovelNick and Helena rival each other in their unhappiness—the self-possessed, unconventionally beautiful Nick, silently suffers under the guise of a perfect life, while the blonde pill-popping Helena clings desperately to a pathetic marriage, while also ignoring her son’s sociopathic tendencies.
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