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Title: The Sea House : A Novel by Esther Freud ISBN: 0-06-056549-7 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 13 April, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Slow and Dull
Comment: This novel starts out very slow and uninteresting and only barely picks up. It paints vivid pictures of the coastal town and even of the characters in a physical way. But the main part of the story, the relationships, falls flat and remains ambiguous. With the interesting lives led by all the characters, in both timelines, so much more could have been developed. The actions of Lily, Max, and Elsa all seem random and without any motivation. It did offer interesting information about Germany and it's peoples lives before and during WWII.
Rating: 4
Summary: Lovely, romantic, and touching
Comment: Though the twin stories took a while to clarify themselves in this reader's mind, once they did, the novel was quietly hypnotic as it wove together themes of loss, love, and historic tragedy. Set in a seaside English town today and in the early 50s, the book is suffused by a sense of isolation and longing, of human insignificance in the face of the limitless waters that can erase whole cities over time. The prose was beautiful and I read many passages over to savor the author's vision.
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Title: Queen of the Turtle Derby: And Other Southern Phenomena by Julia Reed ISBN: 0679409041 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 01 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Summer at Gaglow by Esther Freud ISBN: 0880016728 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler ISBN: 0399151613 Publisher: Marian Wood Book Pub. Date: 22 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: The Great Fire: A Novel by Shirley Hazzard ISBN: 0374166447 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Good Grief : A Novel by Lolly Winston ISBN: 0446533041 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 13 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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