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Cast Iron Shore - Durable and Stylish Cast Iron Cookware for Home Kitchen | Perfect for Frying, Baking, and Stovetop Cooking
Cast Iron Shore - Durable and Stylish Cast Iron Cookware for Home Kitchen | Perfect for Frying, Baking, and Stovetop Cooking

Cast Iron Shore - Durable and Stylish Cast Iron Cookware for Home Kitchen | Perfect for Frying, Baking, and Stovetop Cooking

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This is a capacious and wide-ranging book, not just about individuals but about the history they move through. Whether the scene is Liverpool in the Blitz, a potato-chip factory in the prairies or a seedy hotel room in Hanoi, the writing is immediate . . . Grant approaches each character with insight and a tart sympathy' Hilary Mantel, Literary ReviewSybil Ross has been brought up by her Jewish furrier father and style-obsessed mother as an empty-headed fashion plate. But on the worst night of Liverpool's blitz she uncovers a secret that leaves her disorientated. When the war is over, Sybil embarks on a voyage that leads her to the very edge of America, and to a final choice. THE CAST IRON SHORE is a beautuful evocation of one woman's journey from the 1930s to the 1990s, combining the personal and political in an outstanding first novel.

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Linda Grant is a writer that draws you right into a particular family and historical time. There was great potential for this book, but it got off track as the protagonist went to NY from Liverpool and had two very lengthy relationships where nothing much happened. In the second, she gets absorbed into the world of Communism, but on a pretty superficial level, and the meetings/activities/related to that seem to carry the entire second half of the book and go on for way too long. By book's end, we're not sure there's a fully-developed person there, though she's in her 60s. Can't say I liked Sybille Ross (the protagonist) or even felt much for her given her decisions, values (or lack thereof) and life trajectory. Her identifications with a Jewish father and a German mother during and after WWII would have been much richer territory and given Sybille more depth and interest.