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Newspaper Article
Detailed lives under scrutiny
2012
Overview
Tolstoy once said about his work that he feared that people would love his descriptions of social and personal mannerisms without understanding their significance. Contrariwise, in Life Underwater the descriptions of the Eastern Cape's environment and the Machabeuses' Jewish practices seem to have little direct relevance. How does [Eli, Simon] find life in the army in Pretoria in the 1970s? And what is it about the Port Elizabeth's \"hard light\" and \"monotonous sea\" that reflect and forge the nature of the dysfunctional [Archie Machabeus] family unit. Simply put, Jude's almost pathological selfishness, Simon's restlessness, Eli's mommy's boy passivity and [Rose]'s frustrations with her socially alcoholic husband are never successfully woven into the stated social and environmental backdrop.
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Independent Online (South Africa)
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