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Garibaldi's Ski-Boat
Paperback
Publisher Price: $10.95
ISBN13: 9780595292158
Publisher: Authorhouse
Published: Sep 28 2003
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.27 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Extracts from press reviews:
SUNDAY TIMES, Johannesburg
This second novel more than fulfills the promise of the first. It has dignity, simplicity and an ease of narration that makes it not a tale told but a pattern of people and events evolving independently through some natural process...'Somehow, ' the novel begins, 'one knows when the night is turning into morning, the darkness is a morning darkness and the air is chilled.' The sense of atmosphere conveyed in this opening sentence is maintained to the end of the book. Throughout, the tree chief characters move, speak and fulfill their destinies against a background of the elements.
SUNDAY TIMES, London
THE OBSERVER, London
'The author handles the transition from the simple fun of the quayside to the elemental disaster of the climax with great skill. He is a real writer, and he knows what some writers never learn: when to stop.'
TIME & TIDE, London
'It is difficult to pin-point the extraordinary attractiveness of this story, perhaps it is because the author never, by so much as a nod towards a more complex world, leaves the setting and the characters he has drawn. There are no symbols to worry us, no folk wisdom to fox us, no archetypes, only people with special wants and special likes: In all this he shows an unpretentious confidence--perhaps unconscious--and skill lacked by many more famous European novelists.'
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