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Title: Ohio Angels: A Novel by Harriet Scott Chessman ISBN: 1-58322-519-6 Publisher: Seven Stories Press Pub. Date: September, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (5 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Ohio Angels a superb debut
Comment: This is the beautiful FIRST novel (not second!) by the acclaimed author of Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper. Both Ohio Angels and Lydia Cassatt . . . center around questions of an artist's effort to understand and represent someone much loved. And in both, Chessman imagines what it's like to be on the other side of the canvas. I found this earlier story as intimate and moving as the second, and interesting in its use of fragments, each offering a different character's point of view. I recommend it to anyone who cherishes writing that lingers with you long after you come to the last word.

Rating: 3
Summary: Expected better
Comment: This doesn't come up to the quality of Chessman's Lydia Cassatt Reads the Morning Paper. Although the story itself is interesting, there is too much jumping from one point of view to another to allow much development of any one character in such a short novel, and it felt fragmented to me, with an artificial ending.

Rating: 5
Summary: About the emotional conflicts of two female friends
Comment: Ohio Angels is Harriet Scott Chessman's debut novel about the emotional conflicts of two female friends who have to balance their own talents and needs with the demands of family - whether caring for an aging, demanding mother or supporting a husband's career or abandoning one's own talents to look after children. Very strongly recommended for its thoughtful examination of conflicting pulls upon woman's life, Ohio Angels very clearly documents Chessman as an accomplished novelist with a particular gift for writing literate prose with a pronounced lyrical flair.

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