The Golden Notebook
Ratings14
Average rating3.9
One sentence synopsis... England 1930-50: writer Anna Wulf attempts to record and compartmentalize her life in four contradicting and overlapping notebooks. .
Read it if you like... there's really something for everyone in here but the main themes of interest are the disillusionment with communism, women's liberation, and mental illness. If you're a fan of unreliable narrators this is one of the best. .
Dream casting... due to the nature of the novel - experimental, reflective of the narrator's inner turmoil and eventual mental breakdown - I don't think this could be adapted in a show/film... that being said Winona Ryder would crush it.
I liked it a lot. It could have been shorter, but with this book, I didn't mind the “too much”. :-D
