5/13/2023 0 Comments The four winds book review![]() ![]() ![]() The strength of Hannah’s prose brings the. (She’s published 24 novels in 30 years.) But that would mean fiddling with the well-oiled machine that reliably produces such marketable passion. 'The Four Winds' by Kristin Hannah is a captivating, heartbreaking tale of a family who will do anything for each other and everything to survive. the snob in me wonders what this indefatigable author could produce if she endured a little tougher editorial criticism and gave herself a little more time. Her prose, so ordinary line by line, nevertheless accumulates into scenes that rush from one emergency to the next-starving! beating! flooding!-pausing only for respites of sentimentality. Hannah never risks ambiguity her pages are 100 percent irony-free. ![]() The heroines of The Four Winds are purely heroic its villains wholly evil. In fact, despite the strong echoes to The Grapes of Wrath, Hannah may be working closer to 19th-century melodrama. the echoes of Steinbeck’s classic are sometimes so strong that I expected to see the Joads’ Hudson Super Six chugging along the road. ![]()
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