So I Am Glad (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: A. L. Kennedy
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: Late 1990’s
- Setting: Glasgow, Scotland, and Paris, France
- Principal Characters: Jennifer Wilson, Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: France or French people, Love or romance, Twentieth century, Europe or Europeans, Paris, Emotions, Death or dying, Scotland or Scottish people, 1990’s, Amnesia
- Locales: Paris, France, Glasgow, Scotland
A. L. Kennedy is a Scottish novelist from Glasgow. So I Am Glad is her first full-length novel to be published in the United States. Told in first-person point of view by Jennifer Wilson, the protagonist, the story immediately thrusts the reader into the sexually active yet emotionally devoid and depressing life of the narrator. Kennedy has taken quite a chance here in choosing a main character who not only is emotionally aloof and self-contained, but also proves to be a temporarily repentant sadist. Many readers might be tempted to abandon this novel from the beginning, but...
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