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Title: Sailor's Wife by Helen Benedict ISBN: 1-58195-024-1 Publisher: Zoland Books Inc Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.57 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Sail away....
Comment: Telling the tale of young love, irrationality, and brusque decisions is Benedict's forte. Her gift of prose weaves a brilliant portrait of myriad topics.
Joyce is a young American searching to find herself, seemingly lost in her own skin, in her own world. Meet Nikos, the stunning Greek sailor. The two meet in a grocery store, where he soon whisks her off as his 18 year old bride, and takes her to his parents on the small Greek Island of Ifestia.
Ifestia, [loosely based on Lemnos, according to the author], is an island with quite a history. Constantly at war, it's people are hard, and from another time. Joyce, attempts to fit in and find her niche in Greek peasant society.
Benedict's characterizations, descriptions and brilliant prose sails the reader to another time, in a completely enveloping tale. A tale of love, tragedy, life, and its lessons rolled into one, The Sailor's Wife, attempts and succeeds at being a fascinating, thought-provoking read.
Enjoy!
Rating: 5
Summary: Important book about women and freedom
Comment: If you're interested in what happens when you fall for a dream, read this book. Joyce, the heroine, thinks love will solve all her problems, and she follows handsome Nikos to Greece. But he goes off to sea for months at a time, and she's left alone working hard for his peasant in-laws. She learns to like the life, but in the end loneliness and oppression begin to get to her and her eyes wander to other men. This book is sexy and profound, and you learn a lot about Greece and the war when you read it.
Rating: 4
Summary: My Big Fat Greek Wedding without the Big Fat Wedding
Comment: I found the Sailor's Wife very touching yet educational. Educational because I was able to learn some basic Greek by way of the story. And touching because it told the story of a young girl who thought she would find happiness leaving her home and family to realize it was there all along. Of course living as a peasant Greek wife for two years did give her the strength to be independant. But she would also realize that culture shock also cand lead to heartbreak and deception. For any young girl who reads "The Sailior's Wife" take this warning. Be wary of young, muscle-bound men with thick foreign accents. Just because they are exotic in your eyes; sometimes they are not the answer to your problems.
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Title: Train: A Novel by PETE DEXTER ISBN: 0385505914 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 07 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer ISBN: 0374128715 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Pub. Date: 01 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: The Dew Breaker (Today Show Pick #23) by EDWIDGE DANTICAT ISBN: 1400041147 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 09 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Little Infamies: Stories by Panos Karnezis ISBN: 0374189374 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 19 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Mr. Paradise : A Novel (LEONARD, ELMORE) by Elmore Leonard ISBN: 0060083956 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 13 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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