Dreams of Sleep
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Book Overview
Alice Reese knows that the cheerful sounds of her family eating breakfast mask a ten--year marriage falling apart. As Alice and her husband, Will, struggle to understand--and perhaps recapture--the feelings that drew them together in the first place, their interior lives are sensitively and convincingly explored.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0140077871
ISBN13:9780140077872
Release Date:May 1985
Publisher:Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Length:240 Pages
Weight:0.40 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.1" x 7.6"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
Excellent look at a marriage
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
This was Humphreys's first book, and I still think it's her best. Alice and Will, after ten years, are finding their marriage on the rocks. Humphreys offer an extremely insightful dissection of this marriage, its possitives and negatives, and what makes these two characters tick. The writing is strong and assured, and I thought her exploration was interesting from cover to cover.
lovely
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
i loved this book, especially the characterization of Alice. She makes me feel normal, with her strange outbursts and feelings. She's a woman who goes by omens, including what's carved by strangers' fingernails on a frozen package of chicken. She strangely salivates as she picks at her daughter's head for scalp buildup. This isn't all what the story's about, but i just couldn't put the book down. Josephine makes each of the three characters a star for one chapter, so you can really get inside their heads and receive information that the other characters don't know. It's about hope and despair and human relationships, the darkness of marriage and the light at the end of it. I loved how Alice follows Claire around, almost stalking her that way, like the wife does with the other woman. i like how she smokes just as it gets dark, when she feels the most despair. i really related to alice. i think josephine is a very gifted writer.
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