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Title: Swan by Frances Mayes, Frances Mayes ISBN: 0-7679-0286-6 Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 26 August, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: too dark
Comment: this book is a downer from the get-go. so depressing. loved under the tuscan sun so tried this one. don't waste your time/
Rating: 4
Summary: A Fine Southern Novel
Comment: I finished Swan yesterday and her characters are with me still- for me a sure sign of a good novel. The Discovery of Poetry by Frances Mayes is one of my very favorite books. I was interested in how her novel would be. The settings are wonderfully described, brought alive and as I have already indicated, the characters appealing and engrossing. Good read !!
Rating: 5
Summary: ELEGANT PROSE
Comment: In the hands of the gifted Frances Mayes "Swan" is not simply a small town in Georgia, it is a mode of living, a perception of the world. With this, her first work of fiction, Ms. Mayes who has won both critical and popular approbation for "Under The Tuscan Sun," "In Tuscany" and "Bella Tuscany," takes her place among the nobility of storytellers.
Long residents of the small Georgia community of Swan, the Masons are a prominent pioneer family, the bulwark of this community. Tragedy struck when Catherine Mason took her own life some years ago, leaving two children, J.J. and Ginger, and a desolate husband, Wills, who is now a resident of The Columns, a nursing home. Living half in the present and half in the past Wills sometimes recognizes family and sometimes he does not.
Although both J.J. and Ginger have survived this tragedy they were wounded, and "each of them began to develop the clever barricades against memory that would become their personalities and characters."
J.J. has become a reclusive dweller at the family's lakeside cabin, spending his days fishing and keeping logs of his observations and activities. Ginger has sought release as an archaeologist in Italy, where she has found love with Marco.
Lily, daughter of the family patriarch who raised the two children, is paying her regular visit to the Mason family plot at Magnolia Cemetery when she is shocked to find that Catherine's grave has been violated and her body unearthed.
Thus, J.J. and Ginger are reunited in Swan, forced to face the disheartening news of their mother's exhumation and to relive the dreadful days following her suicide some 19 years earlier.
The townspeople are unable to grasp this shocking turn of events and those who have known the Masons well rekindle memories. As a local clergyman defines the community, Swan has "the highest suicide rate in the state, highest incidence of intestinal pinworms, and quite a few plain loonies."
Frances Mayes brings not only the community but all of its residents to memorable life in this telling tale of a small Southern town and how the accidents of birth sculpt personalities and people.
- Gail Cooke
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Title: In Tuscany by Frances Mayes ISBN: 0767905350 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 31 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Bella Tuscany : The Sweet Life in Italy by Frances Mayes ISBN: 076790284X Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 04 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes ISBN: 0767900383 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Tuscan Pleasures 2004 Engagement Calendar by Frances Mayes, Steven Rothfeld ISBN: 0811837424 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Bella Tuscany & Under the Tuscan Sun (2 Book Set) by Frances Mayes ISBN: 0767999053 Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 04 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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