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Title: Servants of the Map: Stories by Andrea Barrett, Amanda Barrett ISBN: 0-7862-4210-8 Publisher: Thorndike Pr (Largeprint) Pub. Date: July, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $31.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Erudite, poetic, deeply enriching stories
Comment: SERVANTS OF THE MAP is a unique collection of short stories by the redoubtable Andrea Barrett. While most of us felt she needed the space and stretched-canvas-epic-form to weave her magic, in this collection of six shortish stories she proves she is as adept at relating her tales woven equally with Apollonian/scientific and Dionysian/sensual facets in tight, capsular fashion. She still manages to create vistas rather than views and lineages rather than one dimensional lifetimes. Now and then I find it necessary to break out of her luxuriously poetic language and take a laudatory appraisal of this women's depth of scientific information. The research for such diverse stories pays off by giving the reader the pleasure of discovery of cartography, botany, medical diseases etc in a flowing, painless entry to the richly detailed minds of her characters. This is nothing short of a wondrous book, on to be revisited often - one story at a time - like a treasured scrapbook travelogue!
Rating: 3
Summary: Wonderful storytelling, but...........
Comment: No doubt, these finely crafted, interwoven stories will delight many readers, but.... If you're considering this collection because you loved the adventure and danger of Voyage of the Narwhal, reconsider. These stories are as quiet and subtle as Voyage is exciting.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fabulous Stories
Comment: Andrea Barrett's Servants of the Map is a wonderful story collection, a collection with tremendous depth and imagination. Barrett's stories are all richly told and engrossing, each giving us their own world. What is remarkable about her stories, and what sets this collection off from most others out today is her focus on the scientific world. This focus adds an additional layer to the stories and makes them somehow richer. The stories involve a 19th century map-maker, a 21st century science professor and early 20th century tuberculosis sufferers. Barrett does not shy away from the scientific nature of her characters and their stories and because of this, these stories have additional layers of meaning. These are terrific stories. Pick them up.
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Title: Ship Fever by Andrea Barrett ISBN: 0393316009 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: December, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Voyage of the Narwhal: A Novel by Andrea Barrett ISBN: 0393319504 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: MIDDLE KINGDOM by Andrea Barrett ISBN: 0671729616 Publisher: Washington Square Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: You Are Not a Stranger Here (Today Show Book Club #2) by Adam Haslett, Adam Haslett ISBN: 0385509529 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 05 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: You Are Not a Stranger Here : Stories by Adam Haslett ISBN: 0385720726 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 12 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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