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Title: Waltzing the Cat by Pam Houston ISBN: 0-671-02637-2 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: September, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.29 (35 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Highly recommended, well-written, fine prose...
Comment: Pam Houston writes in a mature voice that speaks of strong self-awareness and confidence in expression. Another review I read compared her writing with Bridget Jones's Diary...I disagree. Houston's prose is more mature and flows effortlessly making her stories enlightening and simultaneously entertaining and poignant. I'm so pleased to have found this book!
Rating: 5
Summary: An expertly crafted book from a skilled and exciting writer.
Comment: The writer of Cowboys Are My Weakness has advanced and improved upon her original success, pushing her new stories with daring prose and complex plots, revealing a new artistic confidence and an even more refined knack for smart dialogue and self-reflection. There are few contemporary artists who can depict with more insight and sensitivity a woman's perspective on landscape (whether it be the Bay Area, the Amazon or a small Colorado mining town), relationships (with both men and women), and identity.
Houston explores some familiar and new terrain in Waltzing the Cat. There is, for certain, what you might expect: outdoor adventures of a strong woman in the American West, smart and revealing depictions of her relationships with various men. But she also explores some exciting new terrain, both physical--most significantly, a place in the world to call home--and psychological, in the form of deft and brave visits to a darker past, the story that lurks behind all other stories.
The opening chapter, "The Best Girlfriend You Never Had," as well as "Three Lessons in Amazonian Biology" and the title story, are among the best I've read in years, and Houston interconnects them all in fascinating ways, creating less a book of short stories than a novel in stories, a novel which culminates in a lovely and disturbing epilogue that provides not only an emotional coda to the book but the formula for its decoding. I was impressed and delighted with Waltzing the Cat, aware as I read that I was in the hands of a gifted and innovative writer.
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful stories by a wonderful writer
Comment: Pam Houston's "Walzing the Cat" is one of the best books I've read recently, interconnecting stories full of lyrical writing, jolt-you-to-attention insights, and luminous images. The titular story is perfect in every way, an examination of family, death and the horror of conditional love. Another gem is "The Whole Weight of Me" when our heroine jumps into illuminated water and tells us "When I opened by eyes under the surface, I felt like I was swimming in the stars."
Yes, the character is searching for love, but she is a thinking woman's heroine -- an artist, philosopher, and wounded but tough bird waiting to take flight. In the end, it's only fair that that flight is solo.
A wonderful book... turned me into a Pam Houston fan.
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Title: Cowboys Are My Weakness by Pam Houston ISBN: 0671793888 Publisher: Washington Square Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1993 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: A Little More About Me by Pam Houston ISBN: 0743406338 Publisher: Washington Square Press Pub. Date: 03 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Tomboy Bride: A Woman's Personal Account of Life in Mining Camps of the West by Harriet Fish Backus, Pam Houston ISBN: 0871085127 Publisher: Pruett Publishing Co. Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Men Before Ten A.M. by Pam Houston, Veronique Vial ISBN: 1885223196 Publisher: Beyond Words Publising Pub. Date: November, 1996 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Best American Short Stories of the Century by John Updike, Katrina Kenison ISBN: 0395843677 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 20 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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