Hemingway: The Postwar Years and the Posthumous Novels (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)

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When Ernest Hemingway committed suicide in 1961 he left four unfinished works--A Moveable Feast, Islands in the Stream, The Garden of Eden, and an untitled work on his travels in Africa. The edited versions that have come down to readers and scholars of Hemingway appear as distinct, disjointed texts that fit oddly into his oeuvre. Through extensive literary detective work Burwell has uncovered substantial evidence that Hemingway in fact designed the three published works as a trilogy, what she terms "his own Portrait of the Artist."

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Groundbreaking Study.......2005-09-28

This is the only in-depth scholarly work extant on the mass of unfinished books Hemingway left behind in 1961. Besides that, it is fluidly written, thoroughly documented, thoughtfully analyzed, and excellent in all respects.

It matters not whether or not the thesis -- that the posthumous works constitute a loose unified work -- holds up. To state it and explore it, as the author does, is to cast a lot of light on the very complex issue of Hemingway's last works and their difficult manuscripts. No one had even gone as far as to lay the groundwork for such a question before Burwell. Indeed it was doubtless necessary to proceed on some sort of hypothesis to go through these widely divergent manuscripts chronologically, as the author does, and to then present a coherent text of her own regarding her studies.

The author also has a great openness and sympathy for Hemingway and his tortured, insistent aestheticism. It shines through the entire work and raises it to a very rare level in modern literary criticism.

Willa Cather : Early Novels and Stories : The Troll Garden, O Pioneers! the Song of the Lark, My Antonia, One of Ours (Library of America)

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Her talent is breath-taking
My Antonia
My Antonia
Some of Cather's finest work
Absolutely perfect fiction

Willa Cather : Early Novels and Stories : The Troll Garden, O Pioneers! the Song of the Lark, My Antonia, One of Ours (Library of America)
Willa Cather
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"Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet." Willa Cather's remark describes her own reasons for re-creating in her powerful fiction the Nebraska frontier of her youth. The vast Great Plains, where the earth has only recently come beneath the plow and the sky is huge and open, mirrors the uniquely American ethic of her characters: their heroic aspirations and stoicism, their passion for creativity, their rebelliousness of spirit. This volume, the first in The Library of America's authoritative three-volume collected Cather, includes the story collection "The Troll Garden," her first work of fiction, along with the beloved novels "O Pioneers!," "The Song of the Lark," "My Antonia," and "One of Ours," which earned a Pulitzer Prize.

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Her talent is breath-taking.......2006-06-21

Somehow, though I love to read,I had missed Willa Cather. I had already read and loved Jane Austen but it was not until I read "My Antonia" that I realized what I had missed all of these years. Willa Cather is truly a genius of the written word. To call her writing 'good' or her stories 'enjoyable' is to understate her talent. Her writing is beautiful though the stories are simple. Each place she writes about makes one believe that she lived there all her life. Her book "Saphira and the Slave Girl" would make you think she had lived there and in that time. Many of her stories are out on the prairie and seem to glow with the golden light from the sun on the fields of grain. Her characterizations are simple but profound and she often throws in a dramatic tale told by a character. And yes, this physical book is also beautiful and a joy to read. It makes one wonder about ever reading a cheap paperback again.

My Antonia.......2001-09-02

This book was very interesting had a good theme and plot.
It kept the reader on edge throughout the entire book. I would recommend it to everyone.

My Antonia.......2001-09-02

This book was very interesting had a good theme and plot.

It kept the reader on edge throughout the entire book. I would

recommend it to everyone.

Some of Cather's finest work.......2000-10-03

Like all the volumes in the Library of America series, this book is beautiful and made to last. Some readers may be bothered by the thin paper, but it allows so much to be packed into a handy book. As the title states, this is a collection from Cather's early work (her first "first novel," _Alexander's Bridge_, is missing). _The Troll Garden_ is a collection of Cather's early short stories, most in the manner of H. James and have a fin-de-siecle tone. "The Sculptor's Funeral," which depicts a town's inability to recognize achievement in any form but monetary, is perhaps the best. That and two other stories were revised by Cather for _Youth and the Bright Medusa_ (1920 an available in LoA 57 _Stories, Poems, and Other Writings_). Reading the versions side-by-side, one can achieve insight into Cather's growing abilities as a writer. However, the most rewarding read in this volume is _My Antonia_. Cather's first masterpiece depicts the lives of Jim Burden and Antonia Shimerda from their arrival in Black Hawk, Nebraska to twenty years after Jim leaves Black Hawk for a life in the East. Antonia remains in Nebraska, becomes a maid in town, and marries (twice). The theme of the book, from Jim's perspective, is aptly captured in the epigraph: "optima dies . . . prima fugit" (from Virgil's _Aeneid_). Again like all volumes in the LoA, a chronology of the authors life, a "Note on the Texts" and a few notes, containing information on allusions and translations of foreign words and phrases appear at the end of the volume.

Absolutely perfect fiction.......1999-05-21

One of my all-time favorite books. Attractively packaged on acid-free paper. Very classic looking. And the fiction is excellent! Her stories about the Plains, the Southwest, Chicago, and Quebec are perfect works of art. I especially liked "Tom Outland's Story" contained within "The Professor's House."

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Interesting first novel
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Novella is the the best in the book
There's "Style" and then there's Rick Moody.
The most boring book about slackers

Garden State: A Novel

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Interesting first novel.......2006-02-12

Garden State bears many of the hallmarks of a typical first novel - somewhat autobigraphical, straining a little to find that elusive, distinctive voice that sets out the writer's stall as a force in literature, short in length.

These aspects can often become flaws in a novel, but they can be forces for fresh, original writing too. Garden State to me seems to contain a little of both. It is a very landscape orientated book - the shabby, tarnished industrial wastes of New Jersey provide an apt backdrop to the broken lives of the characters. Tones of voice, of listlessness, of wasting depression come out well, and if you sit tight through scenes of bungled sex and substance abuse, you discover some superb prose - like this bit: 'In the neighbourhood where Dennis and Alice walked the row houses ran in diagonals. The freight rails demarcated the endpoints of these line segments, sheered them off.'

Garden State is, in ways, a nostalgic novel too. As Moody writes in the introduction, he wrote part of it living in a converted filling station in Hoboken, surrounded by Feral dogs with fleas, reflecting on his time in a psychiatric hospital. He completed it whilst working as an editorial assistant for Simon & Schuster in New York and seemed to be getting his life back on track. Garden State is almost a paean for Moody's new life at that time, and an acknowledgement of those lost years.

This novel contains the fragmented faults and broken reeds of such experiences, but also the richness and originality of voice that can be forged in such circumstances. An interesting read for the delienation of an era the novel lays out.

Mixed Review.......2005-01-12

This book was very interesting to say the least. At first it was hard to get into the beat of it. Rick Moody left many things in this book unexplained. A lot of times I was confused about who the action was happening to or exactly what was happening. It was a very depressing book. I don't think it had any real conclusion. The fact that it's called Garden State then it ends with three of the characters in New York City and one moving back home in the south was a bit out of place. It was never explained that Lane, when he tried to jump off the roof, what exactly happened, how he fell onto the fire escape, until quite later in the book. Why Lane was depressed to begin with wasn't explained or justified for any good reason. Moody probably just felt like there had to be one suicidal character. I think the book was better in the beginning when the characters were still holding onto their youth. Moody mentions a few dazzling ideas that shock and delight readers like the story of the anatomically correct dolls. That wasn't enough because near the middle of the book the interesting stories started dwindling and characters just had to reflect back to them all the time. It wasn't consistent to the end of the book. If moody could have kept up with the rate of little sub stories within this book to the end we would have a whole new better novel. None of the characters really change besides Mrs. Smail and Lane. They are not even the main characters in the novel. Lane is a secondary character forced into the main characters perspective. In fact I think that Moody only had a few characters in this book that he didn't treat like a main character. Which made it interesting but also took from the main story in a way. Alice, the main character, if she did change it was forced upon her. Something about Moody's writing that put me off a couple of times when I read it were his grammatical mistakes. More than once I saw the word an before a word that didn't begin with a. I did like this book, don't get me wrong. I just thought that it could have been better written. I liked how Moody had these passages that talked about strange things and described places. Anytime he did this I wondered where he was going then somehow every time he lead back to one of the characters doing something. In that way his writing is different from most peoples, who would have just started talking about what the character was doing right off the bat. The part I liked best in this book were the strange sub stories about the characters. I think it's worth reading just once. I should also mention that when I first saw this book I thought that it was the book based on the movie Garden State. After reading the back and one chapter I was horribly disappointed but I decided to continue with reading it.

Novella is the the best in the book.......2005-01-08

If you pick up The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven, be sure to at least read the novella (same name) at the end if you decide you're giving up on the book as a whole. I really liked the first story in the collection, but everything else wasn't that interesting to me. I would find my mind wandering as I was reading the other stories, and I would go back and re-read. The only time this didn't happen was with the novella, which is about different slackers, but it was still interesting. If you read the bibliography at the end and the footnotes, you'll understand where Rick Moody is coming from in the novella to some extent. Not too far from his own experiences. I actually thought reading the footnotes was more interesting than most of the short stories. The booke definitely doesn't hinder me from reading more from Moody, however. At least it's worth a try.

There's "Style" and then there's Rick Moody........2004-11-17

Rick Moody's writing isn't of a "style" as so many would praise. It's pure redundancy mixed with instances of information that is meaningless to a story. I had to FORCE myself to read through the first story of this book. And that was only in an attempt to be fair.

His interjections of special detail (i.e., the kind and color of rug Ms. Rondale purchased in the first story) are not at all "genius" or "challenging". They are distracting and pointless. If they do anything to what might have been a good story, they dismember it one organ at a time.

I won't call it all bad writing - but it certainly isn't the kind of writing that I'd call good. Or recommend to anyone.

The most boring book about slackers .......2004-10-11

I read this book because I liked The Ice Storm. I read this book because of the descriptions of what the book was about and the 5 star remarks of various reviewers. I thought, wow... another "Rules of Attraction" something funny, cynical, and stories of passive, troubled youth growing up in the 80's. I thought it was going to be a good read. I was wrong. Wrong. I judged a book because of its descriptions but I should be weary next time. I've never read a book about slackers and 20 somethings so boring in my entire life. Drugs, sex, music, parties, psycho hospitals... those topics should be interesting, fun, sentimental, or whatever to read about. But Moody just bored me and in the end this book should be forgotten. It was highly disappointing and the characters are not worthy. Bret Easton Ellis can at least pull off dispicable and hateful characters that are fun to read about but the dispicable characters in this book I didn't even care for. I just wanted to finish it and get done with it. Just like the characters in this book too stupid to be named, this book is too stupid to be remembered.

The Holodeck in the Garden: Science and Technology in Contemporary American Fiction (Dalkey Archive Scholarly Series)

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The Holodeck in the Garden: Science and Technology in Contemporary American Fiction (Dalkey Archive Scholarly Series)

Manufacturer: Dalkey Archive Press
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now THIS is more like it!
A easy to follow fun read
Good story, good writing, good book
Superb debut novel
Making Lemonade out of Lemons!

The Garden Angel: A Novel
Mindy Friddle
Manufacturer: Picador
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ASIN: 0312424965
Release Date: 2005-05-12

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'Mindy Friddle has a great comic touch, and her novel is a touching, heartfelt debut.' -Richard Russo, winner of the Pulitzer Prize In Sans Souci, South Carolina, talk is cheap, real estate even more so. No one knows this better than Cutter Johanson, a gruff tomboy who waits tables, writes obits, and makes every effort, however comical and in the face of her mercenary relatives, to avert the sale of the dilapidated ancestral home. And despite her plucky resolve, all appears to be lost-until she strikes up an unlikely friendship with Elizabeth, a shy and fragile academic who puts both their fates on a permanent mend.

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now THIS is more like it!.......2007-04-15

I had grown so tired of being disappointed in cookie cutter novels about women and friendship. As if it were a hot topic du jour and authors were just jumping on the bandwagon. This was a GOOD BOOK. An unlikely friendship, humor, heartache and women finding themselves and their strength.
Ms Friddle has set a high standard for herself, I look forward to the next one.

A easy to follow fun read.......2006-07-02

if you are looking for something different , Mindy Fiddle does it in this story. Its an easy read, easy to follow characters and you feel a sense of being there with the story. It was fun to read and worth every penny.. dont miss out on this one .Nicole

Good story, good writing, good book.......2005-10-13

Southerners will feel right at home with this quirky novel. Its eccentric characters could fit right into our own family scrapbooks, and its reverence for the past and suspicion of the encroaching future pose a conflict being played out across the length and breadth of Dixie-and might even be encapsulated in our ambivalence nowadays toward using the word "Dixie" as a synonym for the South.
Just outside of Palmetto, S.C., in the small town of Sans Souci, Cutter Johanson lives in a dilapidated mansion that houses the comforting ghosts of her ancestry. The urban sprawl of Palmetto, which is a thinly disguised Greenville, threatens to engulf the small town that has been home to Cutter's family for generations, but an even more immediate threat is that the death of Cutter's grandmother has brought the house up for sale. Desperate to keep the old home place, Cutter goes to great lengths to sabotage efforts to sell it, but she knows she is fighting a losing battle. Her sister Ginny, "the pretty one," and brother Barry, away in service, are eager to sell, and Cutter, though working two jobs, both menial, can not afford to buy them out.
Enter a kind of Delphic fate: Ginny, a college student, is having an affair with a teacher, Daniel Byers, and is pregnant by him. His aggrieved wife Elizabeth is an emotional cripple whose agoraphobia and panic attacks keep her a virtual prisoner in her home, significantly a run-of-the-mill subdivision ranch house. Not least, Elizabeth's main affliction is a husband so caring that he seems to have an unhealthy need for his wife to remain a cripple. Stir into that mix an anonymous telephone tip to the unsuspecting wife, and a solution to Cutter's problem that she could never have imagined is set in motion.
The attentive reader will see it coming when Elizabeth somehow manages to summon the strength to venture out and knock on the Johansons' front door. When Cutter answers the door, the die is cast: Two oddballs, one strong, one weak, come face to face, and the reader, recognizing their compatibility right away even if they don't, knows that they will wind up with each other when the dust has cleared-though in what arrangement is a nice, and logical, surprise.
The story of how all this happens is highly readable and, for the most part, deliciously written. Ms. Friddle's prose shines, especially with apt and poetic similes--but she comes awfully close to overdoing a good thing: Too many similes can be tiring and come across finally as the same artistic trick done too often to retain its freshness or, worse, as a kind of misdirection. Not for nothing did Gertrude Stein advise writers that in describing something it is usually better to say what a thing is than what it is like, i.e. "A rose is a rose is a rose."

Superb debut novel.......2005-08-12

Just finished reading The Garden Angel.....and really dragged out those final pages, because I didn't want it to end!
Wonderful debut novel with prose that flows, characters that made me feel like I knew them personally and Friddle displayed a terrific sense of place.
I highly recommend this novel and honestly have to say it's been ages since I enjoyed a story as much as this one. Down-to-earth and believable. Do yourself a favor and read this one. My only regret is I'm going to miss Cutter, Elizabeth, Alfred and the rest of the cast. Very much looking forward to Friddle's next novel.

Making Lemonade out of Lemons!.......2005-07-19

In the Garden Angel - Ms. Friddle carefully weaves a story with intricate detail and character. She illustrates how people's lives are oftentimes multi-faceted, secretive and how relationships are compromised, stretched and redefined.

This is a story of a young woman seeking to keep her family's estate together, of another woman seeking to keep her husband, and theats that they both must overcome.

Ms. Friddle illustrates that life isn't always fair or just, that sometimes we are not dealt the best hand but that we must play the game with the cards that we have been given. We must learn how to make lemonade out of Lemons. And in essence to live a life in "San Souci" -- which in French means "Without (San) worry (Souci)".

Working the Garden: American Writers and the Industrialization of Agriculture

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Working the Garden: American Writers and the Industrialization of Agriculture
William Conlogue
Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
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In 1860 farmers accounted for 60 percent of the American workforce; in 1910, 30.5 percent; by 1994, there were too few to warrant a separate census category. The changes wrought by the decline of family farming and the rise of industrial agribusiness typically have been viewed through historical, economic, and political lenses. But as William Conlogue demonstrates, some of the most vital and incisive debates on the subject have occurred in a site that is perhaps less obvious--literature.

Conlogue refutes the critical tendency to treat farm-centered texts as pastorals, arguing that such an approach overlooks the diverse ways these works explore human relationships to the land. His readings of works by Willa Cather, Ruth Comfort Mitchell, John Steinbeck, Luis Valdez, Ernest Gaines, Jane Smiley, Wendell Berry, and others reveal that, through agricultural narratives, authors have addressed such wide-ranging subjects as the impact of technology on people and land, changing gender roles, environmental destruction, and the exploitation of migrant workers. In short, Conlogue offers fresh perspectives on how writers confront issues whose site is the farm but whose impact reaches every corner of American society.

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From the Sunken Garden: The Fiction of Ellen Glasgow, 1916-1945 (Southern Literary Studies)
Julius Rowan Raper
Manufacturer: Louisiana State University Press
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Garden State a Novel Signed
Rick Moody
Manufacturer: PUSHCART PRESS
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ASIN: B000VVT8YM

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Garden State;: A novel
Julian Moynahan
Manufacturer: Little, Brown
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True to the spirit of the people it is based on. A great read!

Great novel on Vietnam

Gardens of Stone Still Excites

One of the best military books ever written! Read and enjoy

As usual, much better than the movie

Gardens of stone: A novel
Nicholas Proffitt
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True to the spirit of the people it is based on. A great read!.......2006-09-15

Having served for a year in be Third Infantry, I can attest to the fact that this book captures the spirit and essential character of the men I served with. Passionate, dedicated, uncompromising and imbued with a desire to serve others over self, they embody the qualities that make America great. If you have never been in the service and want to get an idea of what it is like, both the people and the flavor of military life, this book is worth every nickel.

Great novel on Vietnam.......2005-07-04

This is a frist rate novel; page turning. A novel about honor and caring. This novel we see a unique side to the army and Vietnam. We see the inner workings of the 3rd US Inf, the Army's Old Guard, which is the unit responsible for Arlington Cemetary and Burial Details. The Nations Premier Honor Guard and the Presidents Own.

This book is for everyone. We will see the enthusiam and innocence of youth in the '60s. Those young men who wanted to go and fight for their country. Worried the war would end before they could get there and help the US win. To the reality the soldier's who had allready been there wake up to, knowing we could not win the war the way it was being waged.

Gardens of Stone Still Excites.......2002-10-08

10/08/02 - I just finished - for at least the fifth time - Nicholas Proffitt's highly entertaining and provoking first novel. Just as I know how Gone With The Wind ends and how this book ends I still cannot put it down until I get there. Proffitt's experience while in the "Third Herd" certainly shows through and gives the reader another face of war. While stationed in the D.C. area in '66-'67 I attended more than my share of military funerals and can understand how the men of the Third tried to detach themselved fro the day-to-day work of burying their comrades. This book rates in the top 25 in my all-time favorites list.

One of the best military books ever written! Read and enjoy.......2002-06-25

I honestly have to say this is one the best military books I have ever read, and I have read a lot! The author Pat Conroy has written some brilliant books about military life and they are all good and very realistic and very moving. Often the lives of soldiers/warriors go un-noticed by the media and this books reminds us all of the sacrifices many good men made for our great country.

As usual, much better than the movie.......2002-05-21

An excellent novel about the Old Guard of the Army. Mr. Proffitt, as a veteran of the 3rd US Inf., is able to bring you into the "other" world of the Army. The side that has to do with the burials, rather than the killing.

As a veteran of the Old Guard, who was there for the filming of the movie, I was dissapointed that the Army would not let Mr. Coppola keep to Mr. Proffitt's work, but if you both read the novel, and view the movie, I'm sure that you'll understand the reasons.

Anyhow, I digress. Mr. Proffitt's telling of the "other side if the Vietnam War" is without compare. Even though, by his own admission, he does change some facts around.

I would recommend this novel to all the "doves" and "children of doves", as well as anyone interested in the nations Premier Honor Guard.

Scott R. Williams
3d U.S. Inf (TOG)
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Moira Kelly has come home to Boston to celebrate St. Patrick's Day with family and friends. The last thing she expects to find in the family pub is the undercurrent of danger as talk turns to politics. All too quickly, Moira finds herself struggling with the anger of her old flame, Dan O'Hara, and the convictions of her new love, Michael McLean. Torn between them, she becomes a pawn in a conspiracy that promises to bring the violence and hatred of a different time and place to her own backyard.

This passionate, close-knit community is harboring a traitor. And as the chilling acts of evil unfold around her, Moira must face the fact that a generation is not long enough to soften revenge.

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Night of the Blackbird.......2006-11-06

I finished reading the book, but I was not that impressed with this one. The plot and the characters were not that interesting. I have read 5 of her books so far, and I loved the other 4.

Way too political.......2006-10-23

Moira Kelly gets a guilt ridden phone call from her mother begging her to come back to Boston for St. Patrick's Day. For the very Irish Kelly family, this holiday is even more important than Christmas. Knowing that her father's health is failing and wanting to please her mother, Moira decides to change her plans to film her travel show in Florida, to a full look at St. Patrick's day celebrations in Boston.
Unfortunately, her visit is not a pleasant event. Dan O'Hara broke her heart some years ago, but he is back and ready to make a change. Moira has already moved on with the gorgeous Michael, whom she works with and who dotes on her lovingly.
Something is going on in her family's pub. The politics of Ireland are now in full force and someone among her is planning an assasination. The one person who knows anything mysteriously dies and Moira is left to suspect the one man she has loved nearly her whole life. Not knowing who to trust, Moira does some investigating of her own to find the killer, but what will it cost her?

This romantic suspense/mystery was a little more political than I enjoyed. The issues seemed to drone on about the Irish issues as if reading a text book concerning the continuing conflicts surrounding the dividing of Ireland.
Even with a number of red herrings, the plot was fairly predictable. Even the romance was not up to other Heather Graham novels.

Is it worth buying?
Unless you are very interested in Irish politics, the average reader may find this novel to be more wordy than it is suspenseful. Therefore, I do not recommend paying full price for Night of the Blackbird.

Decent suspense novel, not much understanding for the issues.......2004-02-10

Ms. Graham writes very engrossing suspense novels and this one is no exception. The characters are well developed and the story line full of twists and turns. She just doesn't have a real feel for the ethnicity of the characters, or so I feel. In spite of claims by some of the characters that they are not, she paints the Irish as revolutionaries to a man, most of them violent. Other than that, I recommend the book.

Good Suspense!.......2003-09-14

This was a great book. I have never heard of this author, but she really came through. I would have never picked up this book because of the political nature of it, but it doesn't overwhelm the book too much. A great love story and shocker at the end!

Save Yourself the Trouble!.......2002-03-30

Although the introduction was quite promising, the rest of the book left much to be desired, like an interesting plot, developed characters, and other trivial matters.

This book reads like a dumbed-down mystery (think "Mystery for Romance Fans 101"), and the plot crawls along oh-so-painfully. The first half is spent detailing just HOW Irish the Kelly family is: multiple renditions of the song "Danny Boy," the truth and the fairy tale of St. Patrick, Irish politics, leprechauns, banshees, fairies, etc. In fact, everyone would be content to be coated in green paint, except for the heroine, who cannot let a day go by, without insisting that she's American and not Irish. No insight is given as to WHY she feels the need to make such a distinction, although an embarrassing childhood episode might have helped to give the character SOME dimension.

Save yourself the trouble and pick up one of her historical romances. Mystery is NOT where this author's talents lie.

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3 Book Set; Gohst Walk; Night of the Blackbird; Killing Kelly By Heather Graham
Heather Graham
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3 Book Set; Gohst Walk; Night of the Blackbird; Killing Kelly By Heather Graham.

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Night Of The Blackbird

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Night Of The Blackbird
Heather Graham
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Night of the Blackbird

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Night Grooves
Blackbirds Cdbgpr 147
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Sawdust & sandpaper, or, The night we had the blackbird party

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Sawdust & sandpaper, or, The night we had the blackbird party
T. R Garner
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