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Title: The Book of Ebenezer Le Page by G. B. Edwards, John Fowles ISBN: 1-55921-142-3 Publisher: Moyer Bell Ltd Pub. Date: September, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.95 (20 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A masterpiece!
Comment: I enjoyed reading the other readers' reviews to see how in-sync we were about this marvelous novel. It was a bittersweet moment when I finished the book. On the one hand, Edwards didn't need to write another word -- this was a masterpiece. On the other, I realized that was it -- no more coming from this wonderful writer. How sad.
Rating: 5
Summary: A big-hearted novel about a little-known time and place
Comment: I have long had a fascination for islands and count among my memorable experiences times spent on them and meeting the people who live there. It often amazes me how the geography of these small areas of land surrounded by open sea can expand in the minds of island residents to seem much larger than they in fact are. This psychological phenomenon must be due in part to the density of memory and history compacted within such confining natural boundaries.
G.B. Edwards' novel captures exactly that experience. It takes place on Guernsey, an English-speaking island with French cultural roots, and it embraces in its many pages the lifetime of one man. Born into the attitudes and values of the Victorian era, he's a very singular man, living alone, often cranky and difficult but his heart filled with yearning. His whole life has been transfigured by a boyhood adventure that leaves him stranded at high tide with a dearly loved friend on a chunk of rock offshore.
The island confinement is intensified in the years of German occupation during World War II. This seldom-told chapter of British history is depicted with absorbing detail and considerable suspense, as diminishing supplies of food and fuel, the constant threat of harsh treatment by the occupiers, and the sense of being "abandoned" by the British government make resistance difficult.
Like others who have written reviews here, I was enthralled by this big, well written book and was reluctant to see it end. I heartily recommend it as both an engaging story with a rich cast of vividly drawn characters and a window into a time and place that are little known to the rest of the world.
Rating: 5
Summary: Nothing like being alive
Comment: These are the fictional memoirs of Ebenezer Le Page, who writes about his life from the time he is a young boy to present, possibly till the day before he died. At a first glance, he led a very uneventful life, in that he never left his island, and was a simple farmer and fisherman. However, this is an example of how human nature is endlessly fascinating: the little and big fights between the members of his family, his observations, in retrospect, about what went wrong with this and that other person, the what ifs, his love life, his mom, his devoted sister, the horrible German occupation of Guernsey, and finally his decision over who would be the heir of his money and land. This is one of the best books i've read this year. There is so much history, insight, wisdom and humor in these pages that makes this one of those must-read-at-all-costs books. I would love to go to Guernsey and visit the sights.
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Title: Samuel Pepys : The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin ISBN: 0375725539 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 11 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith ISBN: 0312201656 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason by Nancy Pearl ISBN: 1570613818 Publisher: Sasquatch Books Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Conspiracy Club by JONATHAN KELLERMAN ISBN: 0345452577 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 25 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier ISBN: 0452282152 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: 08 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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