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Title: Four Spirits by Sena Jeter Naslund ISBN: 0-06-621238-3 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 02 September, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (9 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Hard to Keep Track of the Characters
Comment: In the author's note, Sena Naslund writes that she wanted to "write about the acts of courage and tragedy" that took place in Birmingham where she was a college student. I feel she did a very good job of portraying the difficult choices people involved in the civil rights movement had to make and the effect of those choices and the courage it took. For this, the book is worth reading.
I had difficulty however with keeping track of the various characters and who they were, for some reason. It is a long book, but even by the end I often felt myself saying, "now who is that again". I just didn't feel engaged with the characters, they are not ones who will stick with me.
Rating: 3
Summary: 8 readers
Comment: Eight of us read this novel for our book group. All of us appreciated the history lesson and Southern perspective on an issue that for us, growing up in mostly white neighborhoods of the Pacific Northwest, was not as visible.
However, as a novel, we were at times disillusioned. Too many characters left a lot of lives half constructed and then going no where. Even the book's title was given scant time. It felt as if the author had numerous starts and stops to ideas when putting the book together. Relationships between several of the characters seemed to take off and then end abruptly.
Those of us who read Naslund's Ahab's Wife were especially disappointed. In the end we all felt a good editor could have made this book a lot less frustrating and time consuming to read.
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the best . . .
Comment: One of the best books I have read in a long time. Buy it.
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Title: The Namesake : A Novel by Jhumpa Lahiri ISBN: 0395927218 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 16 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Ahab's Wife: Or, The Star-Gazer: A Novel by Sena Jeter Naslund ISBN: 0688177859 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Disobedience of Water: Stories and Novellas by Sena Jeter Naslund ISBN: 0688178456 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Brick Lane: A Novel by Monica Ali ISBN: 0743243307 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 09 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Known World (Today Show Book Club # 17) by Edward P. Jones ISBN: 0060557540 Publisher: Amistad Press Pub. Date: 14 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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