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Title: The Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth Knox ISBN: 0-312-26410-0 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 05 August, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.43 (46 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent innovative book, with a real believable angel.
Comment: "Vintner's Luck" by Elizabeth Knox, is astonishing. Set in Burgundy, in the first half of the last century, it deals with the major themes of life and love - and what happens when you meet a beautiful (male) angel, one night in your vineyard. The angel and main character make a pact to meet each night once a year. This book is unputdownable! The prose is descriptive and set in a very earthly world. Furthermore the angel is very real. Seldom have I read such detailed observations of how angels move and how they manage their wings! Meanwhile, life continues for the vintner, his marriage, the murders of local girls, and the yearly meetings with the angel who asks "Tell me the news". Well worth buying and reading.
Rating: 5
Summary: Simply Amazing
Comment: An email buddy of mine from New Zealand recommended this book. I purchased a copy mainly because I'd never read a single thing from anyone in NZ. Plus, he told me that there was a gay relationship that 'sort of' pervades the story. Boy was I surprised at how wonderful this story was! Like others who reviewed this story I, too, found that it took me over 50 pages to really get into it since it's completely character driven and written in a style that took a little while to get used to. Once I got into it tho, it was impossible to put down.
I found the love affair between Sobran and Xas to be one of the most moving love stories put into print. The fact that it spanned such a long time was extraordinary. The fact that the author is a woman explains how she was so capable in fleshing out Aurora. She was a wonderfully strong character and I enjoyed everything about her. How the author was able to flesh out Sobran, a male, so well, is the mark of how talented Ms. Knox is. Despite the fact that I'm completely non-religious, the angel/heaven/hell/Christianity stuff was NOT a put off at all. It was somewhat quaint (to me) yet completely interesting. I was utterly unprepared for how well it was worked into the story without being in the least bit preachy. Without it, the story would have totally flopped.
Ms. Knox is a master storyteller. There's no doubt about it. She even worked in some wonderful phrasing and some very interesting concepts. I got chills several times throughout the book as I read when a certain collision of words struck me as particularly innovative.
I can't say that I was sad at the end, altho I expected to be. I was more like upset that the story had ultimately come to an end. By that time the characters had leapt out from the pages and I was into all of their lives. Again, the sign of a master storyteller. Ms. Knox, a big American thanks for this work!
Rating: 4
Summary: A quasi-engaging read
Comment: Knox never fully submerges the reader because of the brief quality of the text. The story is told with an impersonal glaze, very much like a vase of some sort. Very pretty to admire but cold, offering no warmth.
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Title: The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion (Oxford World's Classics) by Ford Madox Ford, Thomas C. Moser ISBN: 019283620X Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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