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Title: Something Rising (Light and Swift) : A Novel by Haven Kimmel ISBN: 0-7432-4775-2 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 06 January, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.57 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Everybody into the pool
Comment: This is not a novel about pool, but it does revolve around a young woman's only connection to her charming but absent father: billiards. This compelling story is stuffed with characters that you simply cant get enough of: Puck, BuenaVista, and of course Cassie herself and her family of women. Her sister Belle is going one way -- toward success and accomplishment? - her mother is a Greek tragic figure with a pack of Camels and a heart that still understands love -- and Cassie goesout into the world to kick a little ___. Well done and so magical to enter her world, Kimmel has triumphed here with exquisite grace and plenty of humor.
Rating: 3
Summary: Not much plot
Comment: When I was in college, I happened to pass by one of the English professors (a well regarded poet in his own right) as he was talking to his companion about "the banality of plot." Now that I too, am a writer, I know what he means. Real life has no discernible ebb and flow. Things just happen, and these things rarely make sense. Fiction has to make sense, and plot is inherently unrealistic. But let us not forget that the real is usually boring, and boring books do not rise to the top of the best seller lists. Cassie Claiborne is an intriguing heroine, but this book is boring. Too real? Maybe, but certainly there are too many words wrapped around too few incidents, and long drawn descriptions of people, places and things, descriptions that have little to do with the story. The story is interesting enough, but it could have been told in no more than half of this already thin volume.
Rating: 5
Summary: Another Winner from Kimmel
Comment: I became a fast fan of Haven Kimmel's after reading "The Solace of Leaving Early". Her characters are so quirky that they fascinate as well as entertain me...even when they can also be SO annoying!
"Something Rising" is not disappointing and I'll be first in line to get her next novel.
I ESPECIALLY loved how, for "Solace" lovers, the character of Taos, the enigmatic missing brother, resurfaces here in "Something Rising"...you'll miss it if you aren't paying attention! Good going, Haven! Readers love stuff like this!
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Title: The Solace of Leaving Early by Haven Kimmel ISBN: 1400033349 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 13 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana (Today Show Book Club #3) by HAVEN KIMMEL ISBN: 0767915054 Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 03 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters: A Novel by Elisabeth Robinson ISBN: 0316735027 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 07 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Orville : A Dog Story by Robert Andrew Parker, Haven Kimmel ISBN: 061815955X Publisher: Clarion Books Pub. Date: 22 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Amateur Marriage: A Novel by ANNE TYLER ISBN: 1400042070 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 06 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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