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Title: Goneaway Road by Dale Edgerton ISBN: 1-56023-433-4 Publisher: Harrington Park Pr Pub. Date: April, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.88 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: New friends
Comment: From the first paragraph, you feel as if you have been invited to pull up a chair and join this great circle of friends. They tell you everything. Their vitality and spunk make you want to be a part of their world - a world of wonderful parties, new love and connection. But, because it is a world that is all too real, sadness is never far behind. Just when your heart is breaking, however, someone says something to make you laugh.
As these wonderful characters search for love and meaning, you find it on Goneaway Road.
Rating: 3
Summary: IS THERE AN EDITOR IN THE HOUSE?
Comment: Edgerton shows promise with sparks of wit and sometimes fine writing. However, the characters are too one dimensional, right out of Hollywood central [bad] casting. The overall problem though is that the novel is about one hundred pages too long. The characters aren't strong enough and the narrative too weak to carry off a book this long and it sinks under the weight of it's bulk. Sadly, this could have been a fine debut novel, had the characters been fleshed out more and an editor trimmed the fluff and fodder. But Edgerton does show enough promise that I will check out his next offering.
Rating: 3
Summary: Fun, but tepid
Comment: Spanning from the 1970s to the 1990s, "Goneaway Road" follows the lives and loves of a cast of characters who come from a small North Carolina town and who resettle in the stark world of New York City. Evangeline and Eric flit through a relationship, but drift apart for years, but eventually they find their way back to each other. But can they make it work? Her cousin Harry has a crush on Buck, but he's much older and already has his eyes on another. Following these four people through the various decades as they ebb and flow in their friendships, the novel strives to be like a Southern-flavored "Tales of the City", but the characters are never deepened enough. There are moments of playful storytelling here, but "Goneaway Road" meanders a lot and jumps from one point of view to another, and this weakens the narrative.
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Title: The Concrete Sky by Marshall Moore ISBN: 1560234369 Publisher: Harrington Park Pr Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Through It Came Bright Colors by Trebor Healey ISBN: 1560234520 Publisher: Harrington Park Pr Pub. Date: 05 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Elf Child by David M. Pierce ISBN: 1560234288 Publisher: Haworth (T) Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Last Summer by Michael Thomas Ford ISBN: 0758204051 Publisher: Kensington Pub Corp Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: War Against the Animals: A Novel by Paul Russell ISBN: 0312209355 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 27 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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