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Title: The Man in the Box by Thomas Moran ISBN: 1-57322-649-1 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.29 (7 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Ambiguous Tale of Coming of Age and Holocaust
Comment: Thomas Moran has made a wonderful debut as a fiction author with this compelling, chilling, moving tale of Niki Lukasser growing up in Nazi Austria with a Jew, Dr. Weiss, walled up for his own protection, in the barn. This is an unusual story but it is created and built up in ways that make it believable. No good deed or bad will go unpunished and betrayal is an always quietly lurking shadow among the people. The relationships are complicated, particulary the child and the man in the box, and the author makes ambiguous all the various choices of the characters. There is no black or white, good or evil, just people making good and bad decisions, often for very personal and odd reasons.
Rating: 4
Summary: Is Niki A Boy or a Girl?
Comment: I liked this novel very much and thought the characters were believable and memorable. I think Moran captured the moral reality of everyday heroism--as well as the fact that many people who do good just do it and aren't sure why, just as those who do evil just do it. But I am very puzzled by Moran's handling of Niki and am still not sure of the sex of the protagonist although, unlike my co-reviewers,............... Perhaps Niki's vague sexual identity is meant to represent the thin line between good and eveil, Christian and Jew, who knows? I found it all a bit distracting. But I loved the book and will buy Moran's other works.
Rating: 5
Summary: Moran better not lose his grip...
Comment: Because he is on the verge (in my opinion) of greatness. If he challenges himself more as a writer and a wordsmith and deepens his thinking, he will be under serious consideration for the Nobel. He is a humanist. And his writing is great humanist writing, but his ability (again, my humble opinion) has not yet matured. *ALL* of his books so far are worth reading.
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Title: The World I Made for Her by Thomas Moran ISBN: 1573227315 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Anja the Liar by Thomas Moran ISBN: 1573222607 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: 25 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Water, Carry Me: A Love Story by Thomas Moran ISBN: 1573228540 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: 06 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy ISBN: 0142003077 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 29 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Bookman's Promise: A Cliff Janeway Novel by John Dunning ISBN: 0743249925 Publisher: Scribner Book Company Pub. Date: 01 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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