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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN num: 9780316677462
ISBN number: 0316677469
Label: Little, Brown and Company
Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 304
Printing Date: October 16, 2007
Publishing house: Little, Brown and Company
Release Date: October 16, 2007
Sale Popularity Level: 4072
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A woman steps over the line into the unthinkable in this brilliant, powerful, and unforgettable new novel by the author of The Lovely Bones and Lucky.
For years Helen Knightly has given her life to others: to her haunted mother, to her enigmatic father, to her husband and now grown children. When she finally crosses a terrible boundary, her life comes rushing in at her in a way she never could have imagined. Unfolding over the subsequent twenty-four hours, this searing, fast-paced novel explores the complex ties between mothers and daughters, wives and lovers, the meaning of devotion, and the line between love and hate. It is a challenging, moving, gripping story, written with the fluidity and strength of voice that only Alice Sebold can bring to the page.
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having deeply enjoyed this author's book the lovely bones, i was looking forward to diving into this book. and, while i did finish the book, and did find things about it that were worthwhile, i had a hard time. it's just such a completely depressing story! holy cow.
it's interesting: i read this book just after finishing howard dully's non-fiction autobiography, my lobotomy. both stories (this one fiction) involve a horrible, over-bearing, critical, inescapable mother or stepmother. sure made me appreciate my own mom!
the almost moon's narrator is a middle aged divorcee, who makes her living as a still life model for the art department of a local university. she's hopelessly enmeshed with an agoraphobic, appearances-are-everything, walking paradox of a mother. with her mother seriously ailing, the narrator kills her in the opening chapter of the book. the rest of the book flashes back to various points in life, as well as playing out the subsequent 24 hours following the murder. it's a mercy-killing of sorts, but it's also murder with cause.
and, this is where i can see that -- while i didn't really enjoy the book -- it's a good piece of writing. sebold creates tension and paradox on so many levels in this book. the narrator both loves and hates her mother - this is clear. the murder seems both. the murder also seems moral and completely immoral, at the same time. these paradoxes flood the entire story, in a way that is compelling, but certainly not uplifting.
it's not that i'm all that into happy-shiny books. but this one left me with almost nothing more than the thought that sebold is a good writer. i will say this: it might make a much more interesting movie than a book.
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If you decide to read this lock up all guns, flush all drugs, and stay away from bridges for a while......
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Not much more to say beyond that. This book was incredibly frustrating due to overwriting and a ridiculous storyline. I finished it only to see what ultimately happened to the lead character and by the time I got there, I could not have cared less. Just a mess. Wish I could get the time back.
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Alice Sebold's THE ALMOST MOON receives three-time Oscar nominee Joan Allen's fine professional acting voice as it tells of Clair and Helen, a parent and child locked in a dangerous relationship - and what happens when a boundary is crossed that will change both their worlds. The 24-hour period which follows, brings revelations to both in this moving novel.
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I felt totally miserable after finishing this book and that's the way I DON'T want to feel. Helen is the artist's model daughter of Claire and Daniel, both of whom are tainted with hereditary madness. After Daniel's suicide, Helen succumbs to a final rage as her demented mother taunts her without let up, smothers her, washes her soiled body and stuffs her into a chest freezer until she decides which actions to take. She rings Jake, her ex husband who agrees to stay with her until she makes a decision and then contacts her elder daughter. It's then that the reader can see the cycle begin again with enough inherited madness seeping through to infect the subsequent generation. It's a bleak, unforgiving book which depressed me beyond words and one which I would not recommend to anyone.
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