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Title: Saint Maybe by ANNE TYLER ISBN: 0-8041-0874-9 Publisher: Ivy Books Pub. Date: 23 August, 1992 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.46 (41 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A Satisfying Taste of Reality
Comment: Anne Tyler's brilliant and heart-felt novel, Saint Maybe, has surely touched readers of all generations. The thoughtful analogies and individualization of characters familiarizes a person with this Baltimore family of 1965. The magnified details that the author provides are immaculate and transform the reader into a participant rather than just an audience in the emotional roller coaster of the Bedloe family. In this compelling story, Bee and Doug Bedloe have three aspiring and hopeful children. Their middle child, Danny, meets a woman at his place of work and soon after has a beautiful baby girl, Daphne, with her. Ian, the youngest child, conveys his opinion about his brother's marriage and child and of the dishonesty on his wife's behalf. Ian and his parents' lives will forever be burdened and complicated with the effects of his choice of displaying his notions. After a change of heart and spirit, Ian is enlightened, yet confused as to his purpose in the world. Anne Tyler brings to life the everyday occasions that may seem so insignificant to a person. Although the story was dull on a few elements, the majority of the novel was notable and also eloquently depicted. Dedicated and patient readers will ultimately enjoy Saint Maybe.
Rating: 5
Summary: Another gem from Anne Tyler
Comment: Saint Maybe is a thoroughly enjoyable book with especially interesting characters. The hero of the story is Ian Bedloe, a 17 year old boy who must deal with the guilt he feels after he- as he believes- causes the death of his brother. Searching for forgiveness, Ian finds religion at the Church of the Second Chance, and he is able to bring meaning to his life. The story is an interesting examination of organized religion, faith, and the roles they play in one's life. I particularly liked the characters' examinations of religion- from Agatha's skepticism to Ian's almost blind faith. Although all of Anne Tyler's books are virtual masterpieces, choose to read this one if you like to think about religion, faith, and all the questions which have no answers.
Rating: 5
Summary: Perhaps Tyler's Best - A Joy to Read
Comment: It is hard to believe that this book is a more than a decade old-but then again, it is perhaps a measure of its usefulness to all seeking Christians that what was fresh and new in 1991 remains so today. A modern classic both as an American novel and as an exploration of the interrelationship of faith and life, SAINT MAYBE is perhaps the greatest work by this acclaimed contemporary novelist.
Born in Minnesota, reared in Raleigh (NC) and infused with a slice of America mid-Atlantic milieu, Anne Tyler is the author of more than a baker's dozen of novels, and all have the ring of truth about them-from BREATHING LESSONS (awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1988) to THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST. Here, the setting is Baltimore, the scene is a once-fashionable, now down-at-the-heels cul de sac, which serves every bit as well as the more oft-used device of an English market village for exploring what makes her extraordinarily real ordinary characters tick.
The story centers around a multi-generation family on this street and the others whose lives intersect their own. Chief among them are what seem to be an offbeat, storefront church group of Christians who are having all too good a time following Jesus. Dubbed by its founder as "The Church of the Second Chance" this congregation (with members who get as much of a kick out of forgiveness as they do picnics) can serve as a plumb line for any other church you've known or know.
Anne Tyler has created a lively read, but much more. She has turned the idea of "church" slightly askew, and having done so, perhaps given us all an idea of how to set things right where we worship now. If this is not enough to make you want to read this book (or reread it)... Well, give it a look because it is by one of the best living writers in the English language. And then, of course, you will want to read everything else by Tyler, too.
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Title: Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler ISBN: 042511774X Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: February, 1994 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant : A Novel by Anne Tyler ISBN: 0449911594 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 27 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: If Morning Ever Comes : A Novel by ANNE TYLER ISBN: 0449911780 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 27 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Accidental Tourist : A Novel by ANNE TYLER ISBN: 0345452003 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 09 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: A Slipping-Down Life by ANNE TYLER ISBN: 0804108862 Publisher: Ivy Books Pub. Date: 23 August, 1992 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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