I felt like I was in an obsessive relationship with it. Even as Regina loses her way, though, the narrative never lacks direction.
On the one hand, it’s a campus novel…At the same time, this is just the background against which the larger story unfolds. "—self.com“Explores a young heart and its painfully naïve and bold ways…It’s The Graduate meets The L Word meets the Carey Mulligan flick An Education.”—Marie Claire, "My Education is a raw, wild, hurtling foray into the tangled realms of sexuality and self-knowledge.
Susan Choi’s new novel starts out on familiar territory: the attraction between a precocious young woman and an intellectually charismatic older man. And so unfolds the story of Regina’s mistakes, which demonstrate what happens when you’re forced to trade-off desire and duty. Most tiresome were the selfish, self-absorbed, whiney characters. The writing in this novel is masterful – but the book did something to me emotionally, too. She had populated it with remarkable but utterly believable characters. Falling in love, of course, doesn’t feel like a choice.
She had populated it with remarkable but utterly believable characters.
makes it obvious to the reader that the novel's rites of passage won't be confining this education to the classroom. Choi earned a B.A.
Finding herself caught in a relationship with Martha, ensnared in the drama of a broken marriage, and questioning her own scholarly ambitions, Regina sees her world beginning to explode. But only a few chapters into the book I was praying it would get better (It didn't, really), and I had to force myself to finish it.
Her “adoration” of Martha is, she feels, “its own totality, bottomless and consuming, a font of impossible pleasure that from the start also bore down on me like a drill until at last it accomplished a permanent perforation.” In love of great intensity and depth the specificity of the beloved can overwhelm any category he or she belongs to — and Regina swears that her feeling for Martha is “so unto itself it could not refer outward, to other affairs between women or even between human beings.” The question is whether it refers outward to, or connects significantly with, the rest of her own life.
So far, this novel is spectacularly bad. from Cornell University.
The result is a deeply human tale of intentional mistakes, love and lust, and the search for a clearer vision of one's self. Regina, facing the complexities of adult love — at once deeper and more banal than those of youthful infatuation — must strike her own grown-up bargain between what she has and what she wants. This was a tiresome read for me. by Viking. Reviewer Meg Wolitzer says the book is a triumph for academic … Early life and education. [See Prepub Alert, 1/25/13. Regina Gottlieb is a 21 year old college graduate who knows EVERYTHING!
I've read her prior books and she's a good author ... but this book is excessive from the word go in both good and bad ways.
This develops slowly over the first few chapters of the novel and is described in agonizing detail by Regina as Martha gives birth to Joachim and welcomes Regina into her life as a lover and a sort of house companion.
The sex scenes were amazing but everything else was boring or annoying. She is just starting her graduate degree program, and has been listening to the gossip about a professor, Nicholas Brodeur. Meanwhile, the obvious problems in the Brodeur marriage begin to evidence themselves and Regina’s “education” gets more complex by the minute. She had written lines that could be framed, and displayed at a sentence festival. Yet her past improbably returns as more than flashbacks, and her education leaves her by the end knowing even less than when she had started. I know what you're. The love scenes were gross and embarrassing (and I'm not typically bothered by an explicit love scene, as long as it's well written), and (spoiler alert) Regina's self-flagellating behavior when she gets dumped made me want to slap her. Choi's writing is overwrought, in love with the sound of itself, exaggerated and pretentious (I got so sick of references to various obscure writers and philosophers, and Brodeurs' stupid baby carseat, which was always referred to as "the Swedish carseat"). Spend a moment over at Goodreads and you’ll quickly discover what elements of the story I’m skimming over but I figure that if the publisher doesn’t reveal much in the blurb, then it’s not up to me to do it for them. in Literature from Yale University (1990) and an M.F.A. No one writes better sentences and keeps them moving, looping, twisting.
Her fourth novel, My Education, received a 2014 Lammy Award.
Yet “My Education,” Choi’s fourth book, only feints toward the conventional novel, with the standard affair between student and professor. Regina is a 21-year-old graduate student taking literature classes at an unnamed East Coast university; Nicholas Brodeur is her celebrated professor, graced with “exceptional, even sinister, attractiveness.” Yet “My Education,” Choi’s fourth book, only feints toward the conventional novel, with the standard affair between student and professor.
The sex scenes shouldn’t distract you from the exceptionally good passages in My Education. This is a great and terrifying novel.
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