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Title: Paula by Isabel Allende ISBN: 0-06-092721-6 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 24 April, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.69 (93 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Pain of Too Much Tenderness.
Comment: A most poignant book by Isabel Allende. She surmounts words and feelings alike. The book lays bare the true story of her daughter's giving way too early, too slowly, and too sorely. It's a narrative that weds emotion to mystery; that nameless and dire facet of life. It reconciles contraries and makes peace with eyes too tender to shed their loved ones. Paula is not only a life-experience account, but also a true-to-heart revelation borne on human nature; how at times of utmost suffering we still manage to live on, as intimates, otherwise called memories, walk us along the remaining, and wavering, path of life. A tear and a smile, Paula.
Rating: 5
Summary: Gripping account of the death of the author¿s daughter
Comment: Isabel Allende's usual style of thickly descriptive, almost surreal, writing doesn't generally appeal to me. I read Eva Luna, then House of Spirits; after that, I was over it. But this book is different. Paula is the straightforward telling of Allende's colorful family history interwoven with the account of her daughter Paula's death from a rare disease. The economical writing instantly won me over, and Allende's gift for storytelling comes to the fore in the many anecdotes she shares.
While Death is the book's key element, it doesn't overwhelm with pity or sorrow. As Allende distracts herself by writing this book as a long letter to Paula, who lies in a coma for months, the author distracts us as well. Absolutely superb.
Rating: 5
Summary: get out the tissue box
Comment: This is an absolutely brilliant book. I have reads hundreds, if not thousands, of books and this is the only one that has ever made me cry. Allende's story is more moving than I can describe. Read it and weep, then go buy a copy for your mother. That's what I did.
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Title: The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende ISBN: 0553273914 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 July, 1986 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Eva Luna. by Isabel Allende ISBN: 0553280589 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 May, 1989 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Of Love and Shadows by Isabel Allende ISBN: 0553273604 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 April, 1988 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Infinite Plan : A Novel by Isabel Allende ISBN: 0060924985 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 13 April, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Daughter of Fortune: A Novel by Isabel Allende ISBN: 038082101X Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 30 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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