The Last of Her Kind: A Novel
 

The Last of Her Kind: A Novel

by Sigrid Nunez

 A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the YearA Christian Science Monitor Best Book of the Year Ann Drayton and Georgette George meet as freshmen roommates at Barnard College in 1968. Ann, who comes from a wealthy New England family, is brilliant and idealistic. Georgette, who comes from a bleak town in upstate New York, is mystified by Ann's romanticization of the underprivileged class,... (read more)

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abeesley
  • Rated 4 stars

This is another book I read years ago but still think about. I wasn't around in the 60s, but my impression is that it is a deft portrait of that unstable time. It actually makes a good companion piece to Into the Wild--both books about people who almost inexplicably but to an extreme reject their homes and families.

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Stevie K
  • Rated 2 stars

I will agree with Miss Ann Thropic here- this book had interesting points (mostly the parts that discussed 60's protests, hippie movement, and counter culture) but ultimately was lost in a swirl of multiple tales through multiple voices. The protagonist here was hard to fall in love with and in fact had little personality until part way through the book. I think the sections about Ann could have been a book alone and the stuff about George's marriages in quite another.

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  • Rated 4 stars
 

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