Here on Earth (Oprah's Book Club)
After nineteen years in California, March Murray returns to the small Massachusetts town where she grew up. For all this time, March has been avoiding her own troubled history, but when she encounters Hollis--the boy she loved so desperately, the man who has never forgotten her--the past collides with the present as their reckless love is reignited. This dark romantic tale asks whether it is possible to survive a love that consumes you completely. The answers March Murray discovers are both heartbreaking and wise, as complex as they are devastating--for in heaven and in our dreams, love is simple and glorious. But it is something altogether different here on earth...
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I'm one of those lit fans that believes that "Wuthering Heights" is NOT a timeless classic or a beloved epic romance...it is not really literature at all, in my opinion. It is the tale of 2 selfish people who never grow up and increasingly taunt each other as they grow ever more tethered to one another in their obsession. It's not love. Its possession. It's control and dominance. It's hate-filled passion that drives them to torment each other. Neither character can be happy without the other, and yet together they aren't much better - resolutely miserable and venomous! In truth, they drive each other mad...
So if I had only known that this book ("Here On Earth")was just a modern retake of WH, I would have been spared. Sorry, Anne Bronte. Sorry, Alice Hoffman. I didn't think the "classic" story worth reading the first time, and so, I opted to stop reading the modern twist once I recognized the all-too-familiar tale and knew where it was headed yet again.
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