I felt it lagged a bit towards the end as well; I suspect Undset's pessimism was showing, as Kristin is abandoned first by her husband and then her sons. (I was a bit self-conscious about reading The Cross on the train, too, thinking that people would see the title and think I was headed for seminary or something. Heh.)
I thought it was pretty frank as well, particularly for the 1920's; while it's never explicit, she doesn't shy away from the sexuality. But then, the Europeans have always been a little less shy about that stuff than we Puritanical 'murricans . . .
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Date: 2006-05-11 05:18 pm (UTC)I thought it was pretty frank as well, particularly for the 1920's; while it's never explicit, she doesn't shy away from the sexuality. But then, the Europeans have always been a little less shy about that stuff than we Puritanical 'murricans . . .