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Title: To the Wedding: A Novel (Vintage International) by John Berger ISBN: 0-679-76777-0 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 March, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.77 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: a life enhancing book
Comment: It has now been several years since I read this book, and it still haunts me with its beauty and wisdom. I have read only 1 other of his books (Pig Earth), but on the strength of those alone, I think he should get a Nobel for literature. Not because writing is a contest but because then more people would read his books. Someone earlier in these reviews said this is the great novel to end this sorry sad century on, and I agree. Many things are wonderful about this book: the way characters' lives twine in and ut of the story like a jazz piece, all coalescing at the end; the characters themselves, even minor ones, will touch your heart. The story itself is both of tragedy and joy, of searching and finding,and finally, of the redemption of love even in our battered age. The event around which the book centers is specific and modern, but also symbolizes the fragility of all our lives and the necessity to love even in the face of the absurdity of existance. And, for these people, in the great book, that's enough. It works.
Rating: 5
Summary: A remarkable book, great in its simplicity
Comment: I love this book and recommend it to all of my friends, no matter what their tastes are. "To the Wedding" is intimate and yet epic in spirit. what Mr. Berger does with voice is daring and remarkably effective: a blind man tells us what he sees, and characters are revealed in both in first and third-person. Like Ondaatje's Hana, Ninon and will remain with you for a long, long time.
Rating: 2
Summary: Sorry but I disagree...
Comment: I am going to be the lone voice in the wilderness... I could not get into this book, could not make it past the first thirty pages. The narrative voice rambles from first person to third person, often it is not clear what is going on... I think this is a challenging book and most certainly is not a novel for somebody who is looking for a light read.
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Title: G.: A Novel by John Berger ISBN: 0679736549 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 February, 1992 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Once in Europa by John Berger, Patricia Macdonald, Patricia McDonald ISBN: 1582340706 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (NY) Pub. Date: 01 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: Lilac and Flag: An Old Wives' Tale of a City by John Berger ISBN: 0679737197 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 November, 1992 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Photocopies by John Berger ISBN: 0679755179 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Running in the Family (Vintage International) by Michael Ondaatje ISBN: 0679746692 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 December, 1993 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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