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Wallace Stegner's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is a story of discovery--personal, historical, and geographical. Confined to a wheelchair, retired historian Lyman Ward sets out to write his grandparents' remarkable story, chronicling their days spent carving civilization into the surface of America's western frontier. But his research reveals even more about his own life than he's willing to admit. What emerges is an enthralling portrait of four generations in the life of an American family.
Like other great quests in literature, Lyman Ward's investigation leads him deep into the dark shadows of his own life. The result is a deeply moving novel that, through the prism of one family, illuminates the American present against the fascinating background of its past.
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Greatest Love Story of All Time.......2007-08-10
I read this book because a friend of mine (a male friend) called it "the greatest love story of all time". It's a hard book to get into, but once your past the first 50 pages it all becomes worth it. It really is a great love story, it shows you a very non Hollywood side of love, love can be very hard. I highly recommend the book to anyone in the mood to think.
Sweeping, epic, moving, everything a book should be!.......2007-08-10
I am so glad I heard about this book from a reading club list! I am very surprised that it is not better known as one of the great examples of American literature. The book, which parallels the lives of a handicapped man living in the 1970s in California and his grandmother, a true pioneer, is engrossing and gives the reader a real glimpse at life in the American West in the late 1800s.
I was truly moved by this book and it will remain one of my favorites for quite some time.
Dated but Pleasant.......2007-01-12
This book, writeen in the '70s, requires some patience. The story of the developing West, interwoven with the narrator's own story, is interesting, if not exciting.
History lesson in an interesting format.......2006-11-10
If you are from the Bay Area, you have to read this one! Not to take anything away from the Pulitzer prize winning (and deserving) story telling, but what made this book memorable to me were the references to San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Cruz peppered throughout. I felt like I was back in the days of the Gold Rush... and couldn't put the book down.
Rich prose.......2006-11-10
I'm love writers who use language to paint vivid pictures - of people, landscapes, cultures, situations - and Stegner's a master at that. Although his 'word pictures' are secondary to the main stories - of two marriages dissolving under stress - the settings and the ways the characters interact with them are what make this book shine. This one's a classic, and should be on the required reading list of college freshman English classes.
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A superb novel and Pulitzer Prize winner about the generation after the American pioneers, as seen through Susan Ward, a beautiful and gifted woman whose skill as an artist brings her fame and also marital conflict.
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Angle of Repose
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Angle of Repose: Four American Photographers in Egypt, The
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Egypt provides a classic rather than a unique experience. According to modern historians, it has been a tourist destination since 30 B.C., and the interest of foreign travelers has hardly waned since. The photographers presented here are no exception; each knits past with present while validating their own discovery of Egypt's ancient monuments. From the pyramids of Giza to the Valley of the Kings, Lynn Davis' and Linda Connor's silver gelatin prints echo 19th-century photographers' documentations of their North African travels. Strewn with scaffolding, piecemeal temples, and shattered sculptures of pharaohs, Tom Van Eynde's Egypt reveals the dramatic detail of its ruins. Harsh and colorful, Richard Misrach's landscapes juxtapose contemporary culture with ancient desert monuments, framing the Pyramids with tour buses, downtown Cairo, and cement housing complexes. The Angle of Repose is the first book in a series featuring the LaSalle Bank Photography Collection, the second-oldest corporate collection of photography in America.
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Angle of Repose
Stegner Wallace
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"Seek not your destiny, for it is seeking you."
Just a week before their marriage, Christine's fiance calls off the wedding, leaving her heartbroken. With hopes of helping her through a difficult time, Christine's best friend Jessica enrolls them both on a humanitarian mission in Peru, to work at an orphanage called El Girasol -- The Sunflower.
It is while working at the orphanage that Christine meets Paul Cook, a successful and charismatic American doctor who has fled the States after one fatal day took away his career, his faith, and the woman he loved.
Unplanned events lead Paul and Christine into the jungle of the Amazon, where Christine must confront her deepest fears, and she, and Paul, must both learn to trust and love again.
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"""Seek not your destiny, for it is seeking you."" Just a week before their marriage, Christine's fiance calls off the wedding, leaving her heartbroken. With hopes of helping her through a difficult time, Christine's best friend Jessica enrolls them both on a humanitarian mission in Peru, to work at an orphanage called El Girasol -- The Sunflower. It is while working at the orphanage that Christine meets Paul Cook, a successful and charismatic American doctor who has fled the States after one fatal day took away his career, his faith, and the woman he loved. Unplanned events lead Paul and Christine into the jungle of the Amazon, where Christine must confront her deepest fears, and she, and Paul, must both learn to trust and love again. "
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Healing Broken Hearts.......2007-09-29
I am never disappointed when I read a book by Richard Paul Evans. I try to read all of his books.
The Sunflower is the story of a young doctor, working in a major US hospital, who inspite of all his best efforts can not save the life of a young boy. The doctor leaves his practice and travels to the jungles of South America. When the Doctor arrives at an orphanage in Peru, he finally finds his calling. The ophanage is very run down and simple, yet it fulfils the purpose of taking the young children off the streets and giving them an education.
After the breakup of a six year realationship, Christine, a fussy girl who has to have everything just right and even owns a carpet rake, finds herself on two week, working trip to Peru.
Christine and Paul,(the doctor) hit it off and begin an unlikely romance. They know that such romances will never work, and Christine needs to return to her life in America. Somehow, in two weeks, she has fallen in love with a man, a country and the orpan children.
Will Chritine leave her comfortable life in the US behind, to live with poisous creatures and dirty conditions? Will the doctor who has found himself in a jungle village, leave behind the life he has forged and the orphan children he loves, for a woman he has only known for two weeks?
You will love the tale of the Sunflower, woven into a love story, by master storyteller, Richard Paul Evans.
Jill Vanderwood,
Children's Author: Through the Rug & Through the Rug 2: Follow That Dog
Like a Gift.......2007-09-26
I have no idea what caused me to pull this title off the shelf and buy it because it certainly was unlike anything else I'd read in recent years. I half-expected more action and adventure, especially because the book's blurb said that the events take place in Peru, but in the end I found myself slaphappy in the middle of a compelling love story.
The author has managed to avoid graphic sexual content and utilizes only the thinnest amount of sensual dialogue, relying more on the actions and unspoken sentiments of the characters involved to move the reader. And you will be moved. He also leverages some excellent attention-getting devices, such as the way the story is told through a third party's eyes, the short philosophical quotes that begin each chapter, and the book's dead-on relevance to the tests we face in overcoming loss and pain.
I suppose the battle between love and geography has been told before, and perhaps love does not normally fare well in those struggles. But if nothing else, this book is, on so many levels, about hope and the selflessly giving people that our society should never take for granted. There's also a global humanitarian slant to the book that suits me as well, especially as it concerns children and the environment. Unless you've got a heart made of stone, you won't be disappointed.
Precious Sunflowers.......2007-09-19
I was thoroughly involved in this story of the Sunflower Orphanage and the details of the country of Peru. I did check out the website for the orphanage which was encourage at the end of the book. The factual aspects of this book and the needs of these children will touch your heart. My son had an extremely similar missionary visit to Mexico where he helped at an orphanage. How and why the children arrive at such an orphanage are identical in nature. It is amazing that our world cannot put an end to such devastation of young lives. The fictional parts of the book were equally engaging. There's nothing like a love story to envigorate a woman's heart.
eh..........2007-08-26
I usually love RPE, and this was an enjoyable book to read, however, the charactors lacked the depth in both personality and story line to be believable. I like to feel like I know the charactors and can relate to their broken hearts, or whatever central crisis always seems to be neccessary to write about a romance. But I never got warm fuzzies. This was supposed to be a love story and I can't find the falling in love part. I didn't feel these two people were meant for each other the way "a great love story" would.
That being said, Paul Cooks diary is really what I would like to read. I feel like the glimpses are more telling than the filling. I won't quit reading RPE and I still recommend his books but I hope in his next book the story is more important than the message.
Sweet story...........2007-07-18
It is kinda condensed but because of the length it almost had to be. It isn't really a "love" story but a romantic story. Two people who connect after being tossed around by life. You never know where your heart is going to take you or who will be your life partner. Excellent heart entertainment.
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SUNFLOWER: A Novel
Martha Powers
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Lt. Sheila Brady is a detective in the small, quiet city of River Oaks, Wisconsin. A newcomer to the force and the city, Brady is the mother of a young daughter and becomes the object of the affections of a number of local men, none of whom, she feels, is exactly right for her.
But she and her daughter are hardly even settled into their new home when Brady is confronted with a series of ghastly and brutal child-murders that shatter the peaceful, neighborly image of the city. A serial killer is hunting down pretty preteen girls and ritually murdering them. He taunts his pursuers by leaving behind him, every time, a souvenir of his presence in the form of sunflower seeds.
The clue is of no help to Brady, however, since the sunflower is the local gardening specialty and once was the staple crop of the area. Practically everyone in River Oaks grows sunflowers, and there is even an annual sunflower contest. Patient, courageous, trying to live down a past shooting incident as a big-city police officer in which her partner blamed her for freezing up in a firefight, Brady gradually begins to penetrate the city's façade of respectability and civic boosterism to uncover a kind of Midwestern Peyton Place. Though she unearths a good many potential suspects, the murders continue. Finally, with the backing of her tough, demanding chief of police, she uses herself to bait and provoke the killer, only to discover that she may be destined to be his last victim....
In a brilliant and suspenseful climax, Sheila Brady is forced to confront her own worst nightmares and fears, as she faces down a man who now has her beloved daughter in his hands.
In Sheila Brady, Martha Powers has created a marvelous new heroine -- tough, fragile, resourceful, and deeply caring, with depths to her life and soul that carry her far beyond the realms of most suspense fiction.
Sunflower is the hardcover debut of a major new talent.
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If you Like Crime Fiction You'll Like this Book.......2007-03-17
Someone is murdering beautiful eleven-year-old blonde, blue-eyed girls in the small town of River Oaks. When the mysterious serial killer suddenly turns his sights on blonde, blue-eyed police lieutenant Shiela Brady this book really begins to get interesting. The twisted mind of the killer confuses a childhood tryst with the feisty lieutenant but he's not so twisted that he can't hide right in among the townspeople and no one suspects him. In a position of trust he can murder at will. Has the lieutenant's new boyfriend betrayed her? Will she finally see her boss really cares about her? As a psychotherapist I read so much non-fiction that a book like this just hits the spot when I'm travelling. It is similar to Elizabeth George's book WITH NO ONE AS WITNESS. Perfect. A. B. Curtiss, author of BRAINSWITCH OUT OF DEPRESSION.
Keep the lights on!.......2002-06-10
Powers brings you to an idyllic, small town, luring you to slow down and smell the flowers along with the heroine. But then she builds the suspense and before long your heart is racing and you can't put the book down. I identified with the heroine and fought right along with her. Already read and loved Bleeding Heart. Waiting for the next one!
My prescription for insomnia.......2001-11-18
A warm glass of milk and Sunflower is sure to give you a good night's sleep.
The best sedative I ever read!.......2001-11-18
What can I say? I hate to write a bad review for any book considering I'm an aspiring writer and I know how I would feel if I got a negative review. That said, I can't give this more than one star. And I will tell you why. Its one of the slowest books I've ever read. The characters are very old and out of style. This is definitely one for the elderly and not for anyone under the age of 60. From the crew-cutted cop with no sex appeal to his favorite exclamation "Jesus Jenny", I couldn't find myself into the male love interest at all. Its not a badly written book as far as grammar but the pages are full of boredom.
Definitely one to donate to the retirement home! Don't let the 5 star reviews fool you. If you are youngish and like action and mystery, don't get "Sunflower".
Trite.......2001-11-02
Disappointing. If you like a "Gee whiz, Mom" book,
you'll like this. To little about the killer
and to much about
Mom and daughter doing trivial things.I guess
the author needed a lot of filler.
"Savage Art" is a good thriller if you
are looking for a nail biting meaty read.
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Ryuhei Ohno has finally graduated middle school leaving behind the pains of unrequited love and the trials of adolescence. He is determined to make a fresh start in high school. On the first day of class, he meets Kunihisa Imaizumi. Kunihisa has joined the school not knowing that 90% of the student body is gay! And to put it mildly, he is a bit wary of his fellow classmates. Ryuhei appoints himself as Kunihisa's protector, but he soon finds himself being drawn to his firm gaze...
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Mitsukazu Mihara: IC in a Sunflower
Mitsukazu Mihara
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Mitsukazu Mihara: R.I.P. Requiem In Phonybrian
ASIN: 1598167693
Release Date: 2007-01-02 |
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A future in which children are bereft of sexual desire... A woman who spends her life resisting a penchant for biting... A man who gets twisted love advice from a robot maid... The incredible Mitsukazu Mihara delivers seven stories that spotlight agonizing truisms of the human condition, painting a vivid picture of humanity at once consumed and rescued by its own desires. Dynamic characters, thrilling scenarios, passionate action... There is only one Mihara.
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Gyula Krúdy is a marvelous writer who haunted the taverns of Budapest and lived on its streets while turning out a series of mesmerizing, revelatory novels that are among the masterpieces of modern literature. Krúdy conjures up a world that is entirely his own—dreamy, macabre, comic, and erotic—where urbane sophistication can erupt without warning into passion and madness.
In Sunflower young Eveline leaves the city and returns to her country estate to escape the memory of her desperate love for the unscrupulous charmer Kálmán. There she encounters the melancholy Álmos-Dreamer, who is languishing for love of her, and is visited by the bizarre and beautiful Miss Maszkerádi, a woman who is a force of nature. The plot twists and turns; elemental myth mingles with sheer farce: Krúdy brilliantly illuminates the shifting contours and acid colors of the landscape of desire.
John Bátki’s outstanding translation of Sunflower is the perfect introduction to the world of Gyula Krúdy, a genius as singular as Robert Walser, Bruno Schulz, or Joseph Roth.
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Sunflower
D.W. Prades
Manufacturer: Black Forest Press
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ASIN: 1582751552
Release Date: 2005-04-21 |
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What would you give to tell the truth at the most opportune time for you? And the most inopportune time for your enemy?In your time of betrayal, would you care who got hurt? They say keep your friends close and your enemies closer, but suppose they are one in the same. Sunflower is filled with love, sorrow, betrayal and mystery. You can pick your poison, the choice is yours. But rest assured you will choose sides before the story is over.
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Sunflower.......2005-06-28
I was given this "Sunflower" by D.W. Prades and thought it would be just like everything else I read. I was wrong. From the very first page of her acknowledgements to the very end I was feeling emotions. The writer was sincer and the story was very interesting. It kept me wondering what next. I knew that this was a must buy and I purchased one for my daughter-in-law and she said it was great and very sexy.
Thank you D.W. Sunflower brighten my day and my husband who is 70 even enjoyed me reading it to him. This book is not just for women, men need to read this book as well to see how some women cope with their inner demons and how we overcome just to keep our marriages together.
ED Sampson
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Reader's Digest 4 books-in-One
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This digital document is an article from Studies in the Humanities, published by Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Department of English on December 1, 2002. The length of the article is 5242 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Lawrence's ontology of art: a meditation on Van Gogh's Sunflowers.(D.H. Lawrence, Vincent Van Gogh)(Critical Essay)
Author: Jack Stewart
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Studies in the Humanities (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2002
Publisher: Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Department of English
Volume: 29
Issue: 2
Page: 125(13)
Article Type: Critical Essay
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