Review - Surfacing

[wilderthan]

I can never decide how I feel about Margaret Atwood's writing. I know a lot of people adore it, but to me both her style and her chosen themes are just completely repetitive. The premise of Surfacing is interesting, and I actually liked reading critical analysis of it, but I don't connect with the four main characters, and the style reminds me of so many other books I've read. For one, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. The writing is nice, dreamy, kind of poetic, but... I guess I just find Margaret Atwood emotionally distant.