I like the way Arnold Bennett thinks. In Anna of the Five Towns, he asks questions that I’d like to hear answers to: what would you do you if you had unlimited funds? How do you find what we might call meaning in life, an unwavering sense of what you would to do with yourself?
Anna is a short book, too short to allow Bennett to answer these questions as thoroughly as I would have asked him to do, if he’d been writing it for me. But no matter, I’ll just read more of what he’s written.
Anna of the Five Towns: 2 stars. There was a lot of promise but not a lot of delivery, to my mind.
Recommended by: David Wright, Seattle Public Library, based on my comments about Middlemarch, North and South, and A Town Like Alice
