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Title: Hitler's Niece : A Novel by Ron Hansen ISBN: 0-06-093220-1 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.44 (50 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Extraordinary speculation on the life of Hitler
Comment: Hitler's Niece by Ron Hansen is an enthralling, convincing look at the feeble man who became the great monster. Although Mr. Hansen also paints a splendid portrait of the thoughtless, mesmerized minions who made up his cult, the primary eyes through which this portrayal is painted are those of Geli Raubal, the daughter of Adolf Hitler's half-sister, Angela. Hitler shows little interest in his niece as a child, but when she reaches her late teens, the charming, witty, attractive, young woman - an easy character for readers to love - becomes an object of obsession to him. As he and the Nazi Party gains significant momentum and his megalomania blooms, Hitler becomes Geli's financer, caretaker, companion, surrogate father and, if he has his way, sexual partner. Hitler takes meticulous, roundabout, disgusting measures to confuse and dominate the young girl. Geli, thankful to "Uncle Alf" for bringing her out of the Raubal's poverty, lives in fear and dread of her uncle and the power he holds over her, over everything he touches, while she wears a jovial public smile. The engaging, lushly told narration slowly and gracefully moves toward the type of nail-biting conclusion whose inevitability only causes it to be more absorbing and affecting. The tale, based on actual occurrences and obviously well researched, is a believable, fascinating speculation on the emotional emptiness that backgrounded Hitler's appalling evil.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Speculations On A Doomed Friendship!
Comment: As someone familiar with many within the Fuhrer's immediate circle, I found this novel a terrific tale of what may have happened between him and his young niece, Geli Raubel. All the familiar characters, Goering,Goebbels, the chauffer (who, in this book, actually competes with Hitler over Geli's affections), and many others, seem all too real. The manipulative and mesmorizing future dictator slowly becomes truly sickening, but he actually is not without some human feelings as well. The descriptions of 1920's-early 1930's Munich and Germany are perfect, and the everyday life of the Hitler and his entourage are just as good. Note the claustophobic feel of his large flat, and the slowly developing, urgent paranoia of Geli that becomes all too real. In fact, though she does feel strangely drawn to Hitler, she is among the few not drawn completely in his web. The ending may not be true , but still a great read, and fine job by Mr. Hansen!
Rating: 5
Summary: Hitler, the Man
Comment: A chilling and intimate portrait of a psychopathic narcissist from the point of view of his gullible and common-sensical niece. She is ensnared less by his infamous magnetism than by his rising celebrity and the pecuniary entrapments he foists on her. Gradually and painfully, she wakes up, in a golden cage, to the nightmarish, venomous and perverted relationship with her uncle. A "fly on the wall", superb, bated breath, piece of prescience in hindsight. Reads like journalism, deep like history, moving like a first rate novel and tragic beyond words. Close to a masterpiece. Sam Vaknin, author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited".
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Title: Mariette in Ecstasy by Ron Hansen ISBN: 0060981180 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 03 August, 1992 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: A Stay Against Confusion : Essays on Faith and Fiction by Ron Hansen ISBN: 0060956682 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 26 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Atticus : Novel, A by Ron Hansen ISBN: 0060927860 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 26 February, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Desperadoes by Ron Hansen ISBN: 0060976985 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 26 February, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Nebraska: Stories by Ron Hansen ISBN: 0871133490 Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press Pub. Date: April, 1990 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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