Blue Glass

by Sandra Tyler

Book Overview

A novel that vividly brings to life the inherently adversarial nature of the mother-daughter relationship and its yearnings. "This strong, thoughtful first novel...develops with quiet momentum"... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0156132265
• ISBN13: 9780156132268
• Release Date: June 1993
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Ordinary People are not so ordinary after all

Blue galss by Sandra Tyler is an interesting book, different from other novels, still it is very easy to relate to. The book is not trying to tell the story of a family through time, it rather focuses on one event. This event may stretch over 4 or 5 years, yet in our lifespane, this is concidered one point in time. The book struck me as a series of scenes, ordinary scenes from our daily life, however, when we watch these scenes go by, we can see that they are not so ordinary after all; there is more than meets the eye. The elements of the book are simple and common: an adolescnet girl, a mother who built her life around her family, and a husband who grew tired of his life style. From one scence to the next, the writer shows very subtle changes and very small incidents that eventually change their whole life. I think the book tries to show us that small things that happen routinly mean something and that we shouldn't assume how the people close to us feel or think; there are things about them that we may never know. The elements and events in the book take place around us and we never notice. They are not special or important. However if we look carefully, we see that they mean a lot and they are very important for those who live through them. Each one of these scenes needs a star and each line needs an actor. Our simple daily lives is a long movie, it is not dull, not ordinary. We are not ordinary people, we are the stars of our own movies, of our own lives.