It is about stereotypes and gender and physical decline and acceptance and the settling of ourselves with our fates.
With a delicate but assured touch, Wood takes the reader to the very heart of the profound yet often mundane dimensions of friendship.
Since starting this website in 2009, I’ve come to realise I enjoy writing about books almost as much as reading them. Tensions rise, secrets bubble to the surface, things get angsty (so just a typical Chrissy really). So much rubbish that made no sense, boring characters that obviously had nothing in common. Not a bit of humor and the characters were joyless. Too many self-indulgent reflections. But what they have in common is Wood’s extraordinary literary style, so reminiscent of Helen Garner, that manages to convey a simple story in accessible and plain language, detailing the minutiae of daily life with a keen and observant eye, and critical analysis, whilst also managing to say something profound about the whole of life and all its many facets. Gutting, funny, beautiful, and affirming all at once. If I'm still putting up with shit like that when I'm 70 hit me with a club because I deserve it.Thanks to Allen&Unwin I got to enjoy this book as an ARC in exchange for my honest review.Thanks to Allen&Unwin I got to enjoy this book as an ARC in exchange for my honest review.Don't waste your time reading this book. I find it almost disingenuous to ascribe the flurry of emEDITED - I started this book with trepidation. Too many white women. Charlotte Wood has been described as "one of our most original and provocative writers.” (The Australian).Her fifth novel, The Natural Way of Things, was published in September 2015.
The three friends, in their 70's, come together for a weekend to clear out the beach house of their friend Sylvie, who recently passed away. Too many self-indulgent reflections.
The Mothers While that story was bleak, angry and desperate, The Weekend is gentle, contained and thoughtful. I could not summon the ability to care at all and was immensely bored; it was impossible to identify with the two-dimensional stereotypes (slovenly academic, washed-up actress and someone who seemed to be so wholly defined by the fact they are a mistress) and even more difficult to try to retain interest in the plotThis novel explores how the death of a fourth friend impacts the lives and friendships of three remaining older women. With Sylvie no longer there, the dynamics of the group has changed. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. An unwelcome addition to the group is Wendy's dog, Finn, 17yo, blind, deaf and highly anxious - but she couldn't leave him behind in Sydney.If you are going into this one because you liked The Natural Way of Things, you need to know that The Weekend is entirely different, with one exception: the brilliant writing.If you are going into this one because you liked The Natural Way of Things, you need to know that The Weekend is entirely different, with one exception: the brilliant writing.I've just spent a weekend with these ladies and I think I've fallen a bit in love with each of them through each of their turmoils.
EDITED - I started this book with trepidation. Welcome back. revolves around a secret with far-reaching implications. Charlotte Wood is an accomplished Australian writer. This book will appear ‘lighter’ and ‘easier’ than Wood’s previous novel The Natural Way of Things but that’s misleading. You’ve been warned.While superbly executed, at this time, my response to the moments of dark farce in this novel was not ‘laugh-out-loud’. Three friends who have gathered at Christmas to pack up the beach house of their deceased friend Sylvie. Wendy, the compassionate, once striking but now quite large and frumpy, famous intellectual. THE WEEKEND Three women in their seventies reunite for one last, life-changing weekend in the beach house of their late friend. She won the 2016 Stella Prize for her feminist dystopian novel The Natural Way of Things, which received many other awards as well. Oh I would give this quick read 6 stars, if I could. Given mortality is the resonant theme of this thought-provoking story, reader response to the humour within will heavily depend on age and personal experience. Wendy, Jude and Adele (and sweet old anxious Finn) feel so real to me and will stay in my heart for a long time! The women struggle to get along and Wendy's old dog Finn causes problems. A poor dog that should be dead. This is literature that moves rather than entertains. The Weekend falls into this category and I'm just not into it. Wendy, the compassionate, once striking but now quite large and frumpy, famous intellectual. A female friendship character study brimming with symbolism, compelling & cathartic. Wood really nails the group’s dynamics after the loss of their linchpin member. We’d love your help. She is one mean actress - she is jealous and wants to have one last chance to act - also she is trying to upstage Sonia.She is one mean actress - she is jealous and wants to have one last chance to act - also she is trying to upstage Sonia.As an “older reader”, i must reply that this book flat out bored me.
It's too much. Wood has packed the very fabric and tenderness/cruelty of life and female friendship into this slight novel and I laughed and cried my way through it. The Weekend by Charlotte Wood: Compelling & cathartic Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. , Brit Bennett’s bestselling debut, Australian writer Charlotte Wood’s last novel, 2015’s The Natural Way of Things, imagined a labour camp populated by women who had publicly accused their sexual abusers, a … A friend noted that it would make a good play, and I think that's bang on - it's all dialogue and set pieces and the three main characters would work perfectly on the stage. An unwelcome addition to theIn the days before Christmas, three women in their 70s - friends for more than four decades - meet at their recently deceased friend's house by the beach, to make it ready for sale. Synopsis Colourful and evocative, The Weekend explores attachment, ambition and the ability to forgive through three women who come together after the death a close friend. I found it to be a difficult read, but not how you might think. It was just a boring read, thank goodness it was short.Charlotte Wood’s much anticipated next novel, The Weekend (Allen and Unwin 2019) in many ways could not be more dissimilar to her previous award-winning book The Natural Way of Things. I found it to be a difficult read, but not how you might think. When three caricatures and a heavy-handed canine metaphor come together in the wake of the novel's sole plot-point - a friend's death - they spend a weekend womansplaining the faults of their so-called friends.
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