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Title: Circle of Three: A Novel by Patricia Gaffney ISBN: 0-06-109836-1 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 29 May, 2001 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.64 (36 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Circle of Three Plus You = Great Reading
Comment: I bought this book because I had read "Saving Graces" and wanted to see if Gaffney's power with the written word would be consistent.
I also find myself tired of seeing so many books that are solely based on romance. Is that all women care about? Not this one.
Gaffney has an exceptional talent for inhabiting the mind of her characters and speaking distinctively as she writes each character.
All three protagonists in this novel are strong, complex, likeable and dislikeable.
All three are real.
All three are dealing with a variety of players, different challenges in different stages of life. It was effortless to feel compassion, anger, laugh and cry with each of them.
While the main point of the book is to be a study of the relationship of three generations of women in the same family, I saw it as an additionally strong study in personal evolution through challenging situations and everyday situations.
I saw the responses as realistically human just as each character was realistically human.
Some examples of Gaffney's word weavings which I found especially enjoyable:
page 66:
"Brian's job becoming, at least it had accomplished what my mother, guilt over Ruth, and 50 milligrams of Zoloft hadn't been able to: my return to the real world. Half of me might be in the ether, zoned out and inattentive, mired in the old grief and guilt that a death in the family brings - naturally - but the other half was coping. It was a start."
page 101:
"Sex weas different -- he could and did make love in the face-to-face position -- but for everyday, standing-up, fully clothed affection he literally couldn't face me."
Ruth, the youngest woman, made this observation that stirred me:
"My mouth was making too much water, I couldn't swallow fast enough." (This was right before she became ill).
There is much, much richness... I suggest you read it for yourself.....
Rating: 4
Summary: A story about women
Comment: This is a great book for women, about women, and the mother and daughter relationship between them.
The pivotal character is Carrie, newly widowed and still immersed in the grief and shock that only another widow would understand.Her teenaged daughter Ruth, is struggling with the loss of her father with whom she had never quite connected in the way that she fantasised- a completely open and caring father,daughter bonding.Carrie's mother Dana is a strong woman, still attractive yet overly possessive in a loving way in that she feels that it's her right to direct the lives of her daughter and grandaughter.Carrie is reunited with Jess, the sweetheart of her childhood and teenage years. Under Jess's influence,Carrie resumes painting,decorating a modern day Noah's Ark for a dying man who is convinced that building the Ark is his only way to redemption.This is a very moving story and is totally believable.
Rating: 4
Summary: Wonderfully complex characters
Comment: Never having read a book by Patricia Gaffney before, I wasn't really sure what to expect. At first, I didn't really like it--Carrie seemed very scatterbrained and pathetic after her husband's death, a careless mother and an even worse daughter. Her mother Dana came across as overbearing and horribly tactess. But this book proved that first impressions are not always correct. Not too long passed before I was hooked, simply delighted with the wonderfully realistic characters. I came to like Carrie very much, and her daughter Ruth I liked even more. Ms. Gaffney just does something wonderful with dialogue, even realistically affecting teenage prose. The plot, although not incredibly exciting, was very engaging and the day to day struggles of these three became my own problems as well. I sympathized easily with them, not something every book does for me. I highly recommend this book to just about everyone, just for the sheer brilliance of the story telling--perfectly realistic. I look very much forward to reading The Saving Graces.
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Title: The Saving Graces: A Novel by Patricia Gaffney ISBN: 0061097101 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 02 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Sweet Everlasting by Patricia Gaffney ISBN: 0451202902 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 10 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Wild at Heart by Patricia Gaffney ISBN: 0451205987 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: 02 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Crooked Hearts by Patricia Gaffney ISBN: 0451204794 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 05 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Flight Lessons by Patricia Gaffney ISBN: 0061031445 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 24 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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