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Title: Rose's Garden by Carrie Brown ISBN: 0553380281 Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub (Trd Pap) Pub. Date: 04 May, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.59
Rating: 5
Summary: Attar of Roses
Comment: There is no greater gift than a book found at a bargain price ..., new and lovely, WITH a fabulously, gentle tale of love. No syrupy love this, but a romance of everlasting grace, the story of aged Conrad who so deeply grieves the loss of his Rose, his wife and life's companion, that he would like to die. Then, early on, Conrad sees the Angel Lemuel, and other mystical things begin to happen which transform his death wish into the rest of his LIFE!
This lovely little story reaffirms the belief that life is to be lived, that a great love need not die, that grief is just another step in life's journey. And with the graceful story telling style of a Jan Karon, Carrie Brown's first novel, though only discovered a few week's ago by me, becomes a new treasure in this reader's life. How could someone so young as Carrie Brown imagine the great truths of life? Well she has; and they are waiting in this little book for your opening. There is a beautiful message here as one grieving man finds the wider world just outside his grief in his own community, one his Rose always knew.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Startlingly Beautiful Debut Novel
Comment: It's always a joy to discover a writer new to you - doubly joyful if the book is as beautiful as ROSE'S GARDEN. This incredibly moving and sensitive story revolves around Conrad, a 75-year- old man, who is trying to adjust to the death of his wife, Rose. Conrad, an engineer, a professional gilder and a raiser of homing pigeons, has been thrust into numbing despair, and the book describes his circumstances with some of the loveliest prose I've read in ages. Brown weaves between the young Conrad and his meeting with and "adoption" by Rose and her family, and the present, as he copes with his heart-shattering loss. In between, there are "ghosts," a flood of biblical proportions as the town's dam breaks and the sweet care of Conrad by one of Rose's many lost souls whom she befriended. - An absolute pleasure to read -
Rating: 3
Summary: Slow pace quite right for thoughtful debut novel
Comment: At last, I've finished all of Carrie Brown's novels. I started backwards when I had to review "The Hatbox Baby". Then, I moved backward on my own through "Lamb In Love" and now "Rose's Garden".
I confess I didn't harken to "Rose's Garden" at first. It seemed slower than the other two novels - slower in a way that was more appealing in Ms. Brown's last two offerings. But having read her other works, I felt I could trust her to lead me where I was supposed to be going, and she did.
The story of Conrad's widowhood - how he copes with the loneliness, the pain and his fears of moving on through life without his beloved Rose - is pretty devastating to read. Such are Ms. Brown's writing abilities that I think even if you have not lost a spouse, you can feel the weight of her character's absolute grief without any trouble. At these times, when one instinctively wants to pull back, to grasp that which is lost to the physical world, the best cure often lies in reaching outward, towards the future. Conrad's increasing awareness of the strength and depth of Rose's love, coupled with the renewing power that comes when he takes his own love and flings it into the air like one of his beloved homing pigeons, is remarkable. Like his birds, who return to settle on his outstretched arms, Conrad finds his love winging back towards him in ways he neither expects nor anticipates but which come as no surprise to the reader of "Rose's Garden".
If you remain patient through the first 100 pages, you'll be richly rewarded. As with "Lamb In Love" and "The Hatbox Baby", Ms. Brown's ethereal writing style and her very human characters will haunt you long after you're done reading.
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Title: Lamb in Love by Carrie Brown ISBN: 0553380850 Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub (Trd Pap) Pub. Date: 04 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The House on Belle Isle: And Other Stories by Carrie Brown ISBN: 156512300X Publisher: Algonquin Books Pub. Date: 2002 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Too Close to the Falls by Catherine Gildiner ISBN: 014200040X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Hatbox Baby: A Novel by Carrie Brown ISBN: 042518465X Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 04 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Hacienda: A Memoir by Lisa St Aubin De Teran, Lisa St. Aubin De Teran ISBN: 0316816884 Publisher: Little Brown & Co (Pap) Pub. Date: 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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