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Title: The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart ISBN: 0-14-200358-1 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 25 November, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A journey
Comment: This book was the first I've read of Jane Urquhart's novels. I read reviews about it here on Amazon before I read the book, and I was worried that I would find it too long as some reviews suggested, but I loved it. I didn't find it long at all. In fact I couldn't put it down! I took it with me everywhere, even to the golf course! Ha. The descriptions of the work that went into the stone and wood carving performed in the book made me want to go out and buy a set of carving tools. Today I went out and bought two more of her books; Away and The Underpainter. I'm hoping I will enjoy them as much as I enjoyed this one.
Rating: 5
Summary: Elegant book by a stellar author
Comment: Jane Urguhart slowly and carefully, chisel chip by chisel chip, sets powerful but delicate personal stories against the sweeping backdrop of World War I. It's the story of Klara and her brother Tilman, separated for years and living those intervening year in very different ways. Their eventual reunion is the climax on which the story turns, and you won't be disappointed as they learn together how to move beyond their pasts and (it sounds trite, but it isn't) find love.
Highest recommendation.
Rating: 3
Summary: Slow, plodding, shines at times
Comment: I enjoyed much of this novel, but I have not been swayed either in finishing the book or by the lofty reviews that this is a great book. It's a good book -- it's solid, but not spectacular. Tilman is a fine character, a young man who knows from a very young age that his role is not to live in one place, but to roam. His sister Klara absorbs the family's obsession with carving in his absence. She falls for the silent Irishman, Eamon, and watches him go off to war.
Eventually a few of these characters make their way to Vimy to participate in the completion of the memorial -- an insufferable pilgrimage that to me does not work at all. I understand that Vimy is the crescendo of the novel, but to me it's an unlikely and uninteresting finale.
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Title: Away: A Novel by Jane Urquhart ISBN: 0140249265 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Underpainter by Jane Urquhart ISBN: 0140269738 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Way the Crow Flies: A Novel (Today Show Book Club #18) by Ann-Marie MacDonald ISBN: 0060578955 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Machine Dreams by Jayne Anne Phillips ISBN: 0375705252 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd by Ana Menendez ISBN: 080213887X Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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