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Review Date: 7/1/2012
An imaginative book with a totally different point of view, the kind of story that makes people think. Enjoyable and very human. The book is short and easy to read.
Review Date: 5/15/2024
This is a profound little book, written in a style that is like a story and charming. It's a self help book with some great pearls of wisdom for living well with other people and not only improving your own life but improving that of untold others as well. The way the stories within the larger story unfold is genius. I enjoyed the book and think nearly any reader will get something out of it. It's one you may want to keep around and read again now and then.
The author urges a different perspective, which is often all we need to deal with a person or situation differently. Usually we are so set in what we think and believe, we don't see those other perspectives.
The author urges a different perspective, which is often all we need to deal with a person or situation differently. Usually we are so set in what we think and believe, we don't see those other perspectives.
Review Date: 9/28/2017
On a long trip, I listened to this book on CD in the car. The story kept me engaged and helped pass the time and miles. A father with a wife and daughter marries another woman when she gets pregnant, and they produce another daughter. When the girls are teens, they meet, though one doesn't know it at first. The second daughter and wife know about the first but the first family knows nothing about the second. I enjoyed the characters in the book. Realistic situations and dialog.
Review Date: 7/2/2016
Ah, another excellent book from Stegner. In this one and another I read, it feels as though he's writing nonfiction, it's so real. A note from an acquaintance from 20 years ago sends Joe to his notebooks to read about another time in his life. He and his wife visited Denmark -- he grasping for something of his mother and his roots. What he finds is quite different and yet related. The story has plenty of wry humor and also sadness but with an upbeat luminous lining for at least some of the characters.
Stegner's books are such a pleasure to read that I don't want them to end. So, I've ordered most of what he's written, aside from what I've already read. This book is a National Book Award winner and Stegner is a Pulitzer Prize winner. I highly recommend any of his books to those who enjoy literary, soulful writing. I can't think of an author that has his gift for illuminating things we never talk about but all of us know or feel, the grit of this human experience. And he does it elegantly.
Stegner's books are such a pleasure to read that I don't want them to end. So, I've ordered most of what he's written, aside from what I've already read. This book is a National Book Award winner and Stegner is a Pulitzer Prize winner. I highly recommend any of his books to those who enjoy literary, soulful writing. I can't think of an author that has his gift for illuminating things we never talk about but all of us know or feel, the grit of this human experience. And he does it elegantly.
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