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The Book of Ruthby Jane HamiltonISBN 0385265700 (0-385-26570-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Ruth'Book summary:Oprah Book ClubŪ Selection, November 1996: The Book of Ruth is a virtuoso performance and that's precisely why it can be excruciating to read. Author Jane Hamilton leads us through the arid life of Ruth Grey, who extracts what small pleasures and graces she can from a tiny Illinois town and the broken people who inhabit it. Ruth's prime tormentor is her mother May, whose husband died in World War II and took her future with him. More poor familial luck has given Ruth a brother who is a math prodigy; Matt sucks up any stray attention like a black hole. Ruth is left to survive on her own resources, which are meager. She struggles along, subsisting on crumbs of affection meted out by her Aunt Sid and, later, her screwed-up husband Ruby. Hamilton has perfect pitch. So perfect that you wince with pain for confused but fundamentally good Ruth as she walks a dead-end path. The book ends with the prospect of redemption, thank goodness--but the tale is nevertheless much more bitter than sweet. [via]
Disobedienceby Jane HamiltonISBN 0385720467 (0-385-72046-7)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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- Disobedience: ISBN 0385728743 (0-385-72874-3)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group - Disobedience: ISBN 0385601913 (0-385-60191-3)
Softcover, Transworld Publishers Limited - Disobedience: ISBN 055221034X (0-552-21034-X)
Softcover, Transworld Publishers Limited - Disobedience: ISBN 038550117X (0-385-50117-X)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing - Disobedience : A Novel: ISBN 0385601905 (0-385-60190-5)
Hardcover, Transworld Publishers Limited - Disobedience: ISBN 0385720467 (0-385-72046-7)
Softcover, Anchor Books
- Disobedience: ISBN 0385728743 (0-385-72874-3)
The Frogs Are Still Singingby Jane HamiltonISBN 0006543553 (0-00-654355-3)
Softcover, Fontana
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A Map of the Worldby Jane HamiltonISBN 0385720106 (0-385-72010-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Map of the World'Book summary:Oprah Book ClubŪ Selection, December 1999: In A Map of the World, appearance overwhelms reality and communal hysteria threatens common sense. Howard and Alice Goodheart, the couple at the center of Jane Hamilton's 1994 novel, have labored mightily to create a pastoral paradise in a Wisconsin subdivision. Their 400-acre dairy farm is the last in Prairie Center, and they're working flat out to raise their two young girls in a traditionally bucolic manner. Yet paradoxically, they strike their neighbors as unacceptably modern, and have been treated as interlopers since the day of their arrival. Howard, in love with his vocation, chooses not to believe that they've been frozen out. But Alice, flinty and quick to judge, finds things harder. And her job as school nurse doesn't work wonders for her reputation either. Happily, there's one exception to this epidemic of unfriendliness: their closest neighbors. Theresa and Dan, who also have two young daughters, function as a virtual lifeline for the embattled family.
But in June 1990, whatever idyll the Goodhearts have worked for comes to a permanent end. On a beautiful morning--marred by her 5-year-old's tantrum but still recuperable--Alice looks forward to taking her children and Theresa's youngest for a swim. Distracted for several minutes, she has no idea that the 2-year-old is no longer in the house:
Lizzy had run to the pond and splashed in. It had felt good on her hot feet and she kept running and then she was pedaling and pedaling. She tried to grab hold of the water, pawing for the metal bar, a ladder rung, her mother, but there was nothing. She clutched and flailed.... She sank. The trout that Howard had stocked in the pond swam along through the dark water. They noticed Lizzy out of the corner of their eyes. They had inherited the knowledge of that look, and they knew it by heart.
This is only the first of Alice's body blows. Next, she's questioned about one of her students, a memorably bad seed. On the verge of collapse, she cries out, "I hurt everybody!"--which will later be construed as a confession. Charged with sexual abuse and unable to come up with $100,000 in bail, she is forced to await trial in jail.Narrated first by Alice, then Howard, and then Alice again, A Map of the World moves from intimate domesticity to courtroom drama with grace and subtlety. Hamilton wrote her book when accusations of abuse in schools and day care were peaking, yet this is not a modish work or an "issue novel" but a lasting creation of several complex lives. At one point, fed up with civil mechanisms, Alice tells her lawyer: "'Let Oprah be the judge.... Let Robbie and me, Mrs. Mackessy, Howard, Theresa, Dan, Mrs. Glevitch--let all of us come before Oprah. Let the studio audience decide. They're nice suburban woman, many of them, dressed for a lark. They have common sense and speak their minds.'" Apparently La Winfrey was listening, since she chose this beautifully observed novel for her book club. --Kerry Fried [via]
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- Map of the World: ISBN 0385473117 (0-385-47311-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc - A Map of the World: ISBN 0385406045 (0-385-40604-5)
Hardcover, Glass Books Pty, Limited - A Map of the World: ISBN 0385473109 (0-385-47310-9)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing - A Map of the World: ISBN 0385500769 (0-385-50076-9)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing - Map of the World: ISBN 0385720106 (0-385-72010-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
- Map of the World: ISBN 0385473117 (0-385-47311-7)
A Map of the World, the Book of Ruth, and the Short History of a Princeby Jane HamiltonISBN 0385728611 (0-385-72861-1)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Short History of a Prince : A Novelby Jane HamiltonISBN 0375702229 (0-375-70222-9)
Softcover, Random House Large Print
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Short History of a Prince : A Novel'Book summary:Robert Sean Leonard (Much Ado About Nothing, Dead Poet's Society) brings a dramatic dimension to the bittersweet story of Walter McCloud, who has high hopes of becoming a ballet dancer. Leonard's flexible voice captures the thoughts and feelings of Walter both as a teenager and as a thirty-something high school teacher. The story begins with the star, an aspiring adolescent ballet dancer, coming to terms with his lack of talent when he is chosen to be the Prince in a third-rate production of the Nutcracker, while his friends dance lead roles in Chicago. The same winter, Walter has his first homosexual experience and his older brother becomes terminally ill. These profound events will haunt Walter for 20 years as he focuses on his coming to terms with his past tragedies and present shortcomings--making for a moving and often funny tale of forgiveness and understanding. Curiously, it is not his love of Balanchine, music and other refined aesthetics that restore a floundering Walter. The anchor he finds is a place, the family summer home on a lake in Wisconsin. It is Hamilton's ability to juxtapose the remarkable against the unremarkable that gives this work its poignancy and grace. --Anne Depue (Running Time: 4 Hours; Four Cassettes) [via]
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The Short History of a Princeby Jane HamiltonISBN 0385479484 (0-385-47948-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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When Madeline Was Youngby Jane HamiltonISBN 0552773670 (0-552-77367-0)
Softcover, Transworld Publishers Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'When Madeline Was Young : A Novel'Book summary:Jane Hamilton, award-winning author of The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World, is back in top form with a richly textured novel about a tragic accident and its effects on two generations of a family.
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When Aaron Macivers beautiful young wife, Madeline, suffers brain damage in a bike accident, she is left with the intellectual powers of a six-year-old. In the years that follow, Aaron and his second wife care for Madeline with deep tenderness and devotion as they raise two children of their own.
Narrated by Aaron's son, Mac, When Madeline Was Young chronicles the Maciver family through the decades, from Macs childhood growing up with Madeline and his cousin Buddy in Wisconsin through the Vietnam War, through Macs years as a husband with children of his own, and through Buddys involvement with the subsequent Gulf Wars. Jane Hamilton, with her usual humor and keen observations of human relationships, deftly explores the Maciver's unusual situation and examines notions of childhood (through Mac and Buddys actual youth as well as Madelines infantilization) and a rivalry between Buddys and Macs families that spans decades and various wars. She captures the pleasures and frustrations of marriage and family, and she exposes the role that past relationships, rivalries, and regrets inevitably play in the lives of adults.
Inspired in part by Elizabeth Spencers Light in the Piazza, Hamilton offers an honest and exquisite portrait of how a family tragedy forever shapes and alters the boundaries of love.More editions of When Madeline Was Young:
When Madeline Was Young Early Printingby Jane HamiltonISBN 0552217123 (0-552-21712-3)
Softcover, Transworld Publishers Limited
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