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Title: Rosie: A Novel by Anne Lamott ISBN: 0-14-026479-5 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: June, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.13 (23 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: I loved this book...
Comment: as well and the author herself. She inspires me to read more and write more. I fell in love with Rosie and her mother, Elizabeth. I was happy that the ending was not as sad as some of Elizabeth's life. But she had Rosie to offset the bad things. Will be reading Crooked Little Heart next...
Rating: 5
Summary: Another great one from Anne Lamott!
Comment: I can hardly believe what some of the reviewers have said of this wonderful book. Where is my elephant gun? Pay absolutely no attention to anyone who claims this isn't up to Lamott's par. Rosie is not just a brilliant read, it is a superlative re-read. She's created another riveting tale of family woes and the love that keeps them in order. However, this novel has a unique coming-of-age brand of its own. The telling of a mother's struggles with alcoholism is poignant and enthralling. I am so relieved I can now lend out my dog-eared second-hand copy and purchase a new one for my shelves. Fans of Lamott rejoice! Now all we need is a new effort from this brilliant author.
Rating: 4
Summary: hmmm...
Comment: Well, I must say, this is book is worthy of both most of the negative and positive comments it has thus far received. On the plus side, Anne Lamott is truly a wonderful writer; her ability to stretch the otherwise quotidian into a relatively entertaining novel attests to that. The characters (especially Rosie) are quite real and the humor makes it fun, while it is at times a bit caustic. Yes, it is the portrayal of a starkly bored, depressed borgeoisie woman trying to get a fix on her life--certainly that is grounds enough to dissuade some people from reading it--but I think what makes it work, and work well, is that it is a very realisticly wrought portrayal. Perhaps it isn't the most exciting facet of life, but it also makes no apologies for it, and in the end accomplishes what all good art should: to bring that little extra bit of appreciation and enlightenment to our everday lives.
Lamott's idiosyncratic literary voice is not far removed from her public one, which I was lucky enough to catch on the radio one night, and I think it is this element that is indispensable to her particular formula, rather than subject material. Anyway, give this one a try. Who knows? You might just ... like it?
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Title: Crooked Little Heart by Anne Lamott ISBN: 0385491808 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Hard Laughter: A Novel by Anne Lamott ISBN: 0865472807 Publisher: North Point Press Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott ISBN: 0385496095 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 15 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Blue Shoe by Anne Lamott ISBN: 1573222267 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: 26 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year by Anne Lamott ISBN: 044990928X Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: May, 1994 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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