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Title: The Marriage of the Sea: A Novel by Jane Alison ISBN: 0374199418 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: Love and Coincidence
Comment: The Marriage of the Sea is a very well written novel about love and coincidence in contemporary Venice and New Orleans. The novel has a wonderful flow, and moves back and forth among a number of characters all in search of some relationship-related satisfaction while all chasing satisfaction with careers. This is a quick, compelling read without much of a plot. The beauty of the novel lies rather in the crisp, fresh writing. This evocative novel has a certain timelessness to it that makes it a wonderful read. Enjoy.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fascinating, compelling, heartbreaking
Comment: Once again, Jane Alison's poetic, nuanced prose enchants the reader in this, her second novel. As in The Love-Artist, her themes include the meaning of creation, the quest for immortality, the nature of art, the power of the bonds between lovers. Here, however, she sets her tales in several waterfront cities, primarily Venice and New Orleans, and handles those themes and others in a modern context. One character, boating across the lagoon of Venice, "thought about all that had once sailed here from over the waters: vermilion, serpentine, lapis lazuli, and silk that would sometimes be so subtly woven as to have the look of the sea, moire, or to sparkle like the paths of fireflies."
The novel works almost like a minuet, with the stories of several characters who exchange partners with each other, seizing or relinquish creative and emotional ties as the tide seizes and relinquishes treasures or trash from the sea. Alison's exploration of creative effort and agony is complex and moving. This book was highly praised in the New York Times Book Review and named as one of that publication's New and Noteworthy books. I highly recommend it!
Rating: 5
Summary: A soft little...wow...as subtle as the surge of the sea
Comment: Powerful and lyrical tale told with admirable restraint and understatement. Hints and innuendo propel the six characters of The Marriage of the Sea between the two irresistibly romantic settings of Venice and New Orleans as fluidly as a sleek sailboat upon the waves. This ornate and complex novel explores aging and decay (physical, spiritual, and architectural), marriage, barrenness in its many manifestations, lonliness, and the complex nature of relationships.
A piece of writing as finely drawn as the lines of Venitian canals and as richly layered as the levels of New Orleans society.
A winner. May Jane Alison write many more this good.
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Title: The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber ISBN: 015100692X Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 16 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: The Quality of Life Report by Meghan Daum ISBN: 0670032131 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 08 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason ISBN: 0375414657 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 17 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Liars and Saints by Maile Meloy ISBN: 0743244354 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides ISBN: 0374199698 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 04 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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