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Leaning towards infinity : how my mother's apron unfolds into my life
Published in Unknown Binding by Vintage ()
Author: Sue Woolfe
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Unengaging
I was disappointed in this novel with its layers upon layers of women and their daughters - chains rather than layers. And one of the women - shock, horror - had invested her hopes in her son who mysteriously disengages himself from the family. Of course I tried not to be influenced by the feminine in the message - and I have read many women writers (Anna Kavan is one of my favourite dozen writers and 'Let Me Alone' one of my top ten novels) - but I found myself trying to suppress the masculine in me, trying not to object to the way many men are portrayed in this novel.
In the end there were too many tears, too many disappointments, not enough mathematics, too many twists and turns, too many identical viewpoints. I have never actually attended a mathematics convention (and I wonder if Ms Woolfe has either), but I found the one described in 'Leaning towards Infinity' totally unconvincing.

Infinite reading
I wanted this book to continue. I loved it. I read it about the same time as some other books ...Hanna's Daughters was one, and I thought it had every bit as much to say about mother-daughter relationships. Also 'Gut Symmetries' by Janette Winterson, which I did not like...this had more to say about the mathematical woman genius.

It makes the point rendered over and over by Dale Spencer in 'Women of Ideas and What Men have Done To Them' but in a fictionalised account, well plotted and without the hyperbole to which Spender is prone.

Woolfe is a good writer, and her use of language approaches the delights of Arundhati Roy in God of mall Things (but never surpasses).

Beautiful piece of writing
I loved it. Beautiful piece of prose. Funny, sad - some of the relationships heart-wrenchingly so. Haunted me for a long while after.

I think Carol Shields fans would like it.


About Literature
Published in Paperback by Pan Macmillan (1984)
Author: Sue Woolfe
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Language in Literature
Published in Paperback by Pan Macmillan (1975)
Author: Sue Woolfe
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Language in Literature: Supplement 1977-78
Published in Paperback by Pan Macmillan (1977)
Author: Sue Woolfe
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Painted Woman
Published in Hardcover by Australia in Print (August, 1989)
Author: Sue Woolfe
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