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Title: Awake by Elizabeth Graver ISBN: 0-8050-6539-3 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 07 April, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Wonderful, Moving Novel
Comment: I read this novel in one sitting and was totally amazed by Elizabeth Graver's ability to capture the inner life of her narrator. The book starts out looking like it's going to be about raising a child with a serious illness, but it turns out to be about the mother--how much she both loves her family and yearns for parts of her old, pre-mother self; how she struggles with questions of identity and motherhood and love and marriage. The book is set at a camp where all activities take place at night (the sick son can't be in the dark), and the imagery is gorgeous. I've read Graver's other two novels and loved those, too, but I this one feels like her most mature and ambitious. And it's a GREAT read.
Rating: 3
Summary: Kept me awake
Comment: Is illness metaphor? Elizabeth Graver explores what it means to be a mother (Anna) with a suppressed self-destruction streak who home-schools a child with XP, a disease that makes sunlight toxic. She has a husband and older child; together they head to a camp run by a rich guy whose daughter also has XP. They frolic at night and sleep most of the day. But Anna, an artist, whose husband, Ian, is drawing away from her, finds herself attracted to Hal, the camp's owner. Anna, in reaching for an emotional and poetic voice, tends to repeat herself, which makes the reading more slow-going than it should be. She's also rather annoying; yes, her situation is bleak and one I wouldn't wish upon anyone, but she's so self-obsessed that you want to shake her by the shoulders and tell her to lighten (ha) up. Still, the story is compelling, and Graver draws well Anna's relationship with her two sons, especially Max, the one with XP.
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Title: The Amateur Marriage: A Novel by ANNE TYLER ISBN: 1400042070 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 06 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Art of Mending : A Novel by ELIZABETH BERG ISBN: 1400061598 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 13 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: A Hole in the Universe by Mary McGarry Morris ISBN: 0670032883 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 08 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Little Children : A Novel by Tom Perrotta ISBN: 0312315716 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Good Grief : A Novel by Lolly Winston ISBN: 0446533041 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 13 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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