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Title: Fiona Range by Mary McGarry Morris ISBN: 0-14-100184-4 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 03 July, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.29 (65 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Undoubtedly one of the best books I've read all year...
Comment: After sludging through a few bad novels, I picked up Fiona Range, expecting something similar to her Songs in Ordinary Time. Although I enjoyed Songs immensely, I was very much surprised and excited to meet Fiona. Fiona Range is a troubled thirty-something living in a small town where everything is everyone else's business. She is haunted by her mother, who disappeared shortly after Fiona's birth and a semi-psycho man she knows to be her father. Added to that are her aunt and uncle's family, with whom she grew up with, that expects Fiona to be just as perfect as they are. Fiona often finds herself in compromising situations. She drinks a little too much, finds one-night stands a bit too often and falls in lust/love too easily. Needless to say, this novel has a ton of potential. Mary McGarry Morris did such a wonderful job with this book, with well developed characters, a lot of action and plenty of tears to go around. A great read!
Rating: 5
Summary: Very Highly Recommended.
Comment: Although Fiona Range, the title character of her fourth book is the main focus of this story, author Mary McGarry Morris ultimately paints the portrait of a flawed family trying to maintain its place in a very confusing and complex world. Fiona Range is a satisfying, if not always easy look into the world of a prominent New England family and its one wild child. When she is quite young, Fiona is abandoned by her mother; she is denied paternity by her father, Patrick Grady; she is raised by relatives who do not understand her petulant behavior and who are constantly puzzled by her absolute lack of judgment. Fiona is 30. For the past few years, she has worked as a waitress in Chester's Coffee Shop in Dearborn, Massachusetts. Her life is stuck in a constant cycle of rebellion, failed relationships, and an endless, empty horizon. As much as she yearns to be part of the family who raised her, she is repulsed by their shallow lives and their almost insatiable need to present a perfect face to the community. Her Uncle Charles Grady is a prominent judge. Her Aunt Arlene is the perfect wife and mother, volunteering in the community and taking care of those who cannot take care of themselves. To the world, the Grady family is a model of success. Their three children are educated, employed and functioning members of society. Jack is a computer whiz. Ginny runs a day care. Elizabeth, the schoolteacher, is engaged to a wonderful doctor from New York. Their lives are picture perfect, if you don't look too close. And then there's Fiona. The trouble with you, Fiona, is you don't think before you act. The trouble with you, Fiona, is you don't think. The trouble with you, Fiona, is you. The trouble with Fiona is you. The trouble. Fiona is the trouble. There are a lot of issues raised in this book. Not all of them are resolved, but they're out there for the reader's inspection. This is not a book you read in one night. You must pace yourself in order to endure Fiona's wild abandon, Elizabeth's neuroses, Patrick Grady's madness, and ultimately, the Grady family's undoing. I liked all the characters in this book. No one was perfect and there were no Hollywood endings, all neatly tied up with red ribbons. The people who make this story work are flawed and they all struggle with life's hardest questions. In other words, these people could be REAL. And, to me, that's what quality fiction should create: real people, flaws and all, dealing with life's triumphs and tragedies, while trying to make their way in the world without inflicting too much damage on themselves and those around them. Very Highly Recommended.
Terry H. Mathews Reviewer
Rating: 2
Summary: I should get my wasted time and money back.
Comment: Fiona Range is a good book for someone who does not know good literature. There are so many typos that it is distracting to someone who knows how to use grammar. Tbe plot is too simplisitic for a book this long--maybe better suited to a novella or a short-story. Also, the characters, excepting for Fiona, were very shallow and needed more purpose. Considering that the author has written much more enjoyable novels previous to this--it leaves the reader with the sense that it was intended as a money-maker, not a heart-warmer.
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Title: Vanished by Mary McGarry Morris ISBN: 0140272100 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: July, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: A Dangerous Woman by Mary McGarry Morris ISBN: 0140272119 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: June, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Songs in Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris ISBN: 0140244824 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: August, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: A Perfect Arrangement: A Novel by Suzanne Berne ISBN: 0452283221 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: 30 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Family History by Dani Shapiro ISBN: 0375415475 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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