A Possible Life : A Novel in Five Parts (Paperback)

from freelancer_frank

This is a book about confinement. The central characters in each of its five stories are all confined in some way. The stories deal with how they cope with their release. There are some interesting moments but overall the writing is flat, dull and unsurprising. It was difficult at times to keep f...

from SamSattler

Despite being clearly labeled on its cover as a “novel in five parts,” A Possible Life could just as easily have been called a short story collection or a group of short novellas. Most readers, I suspect, will consider the book to be a collection of interrelated short stories. Each of the book's ...

from pennsylady

audio 5 historical times...5 places...5 people.... I enjoyed the individual stories....but I failed to grasp it as an esoteric exploration. existential ....collective consciousness...metaphysical....(descriptions of Faulk's novel) " Occasions of understanding between humans are the one thing that...

from LARA335

Short stories about ordinary people keeping silent about their extraordinary lives: A quiet schoolteacher who aids the Resistance and is imprisoned in a Nazi deathcamp. A servant who doesn't want to learn, barely feels, and offers to work without pay to belong somewhere. A man living in a workhou...

from Donna828

The human experience is much the same no matter where or when we live. We all want to live a life with purpose and in connection to others. We all experience joy and pain and find similar ways to survive in a world that sometimes lacks meaning. Faulks has chosen to illustrate the collective consc...