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HAMILTON, JANE A Map of the World
Anchor December 3, 199 0-385-72010-6 / 9780385720106 Paperback Very Good
Oprah Book Club® Selection, December 1999: In A Map of the World, appearanc e overwhelms reality and communal hysteria threatens common sense. Howard a nd Alice Goodheart, the couple at the center of Jane Hamilton's 1994 novel, have labored mightily to create a pastoral paradise in a Wisconsin subdivi sion. 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 mode rn, and have been treated as interlopers since the day of their arrival. Ho ward, in love with his vocation, chooses not to believe that they've been f rozen out. But Alice, flinty and quick to judge, finds things harder. And h er job as school nurse doesn't work wonders for her reputation either. Happ ily, there's one exception to this epidemic of unfriendliness: their closes t neighbors. Theresa and Dan, who also have two young daughters, function a s a virtual lifeline for the embattled family.
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Hamilton, Jane Disobedience
Black Swan 1 Jan 2002 0-552-99890-7 / 9780552998901 Paperback Very Good
When 17-year-old Henry Shaw accidently stumbles into his mother's e-mail fi le and finds her confession of infidelity, his image of her is shattered. U nable to resist further eavesdropping, the consequences on family life are irrevocable.
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Hamilton, Jane Disobedience: A Novel
Anchor July 10, 2001 0-385-72046-7 / 9780385720465 Paperback Very Good
A wayward wife, an Oedipally obsessed e-mail snoop, a pint-sized Civil War reenactor (oops, make that living historian), and a cheerfully oblivious cu ckold comprise the Shaws of Chicago, the decidedly quirky characters of Jan e Hamilton's fourth novel, Disobedience. An unlikely family to fall prey to the vagaries of modern life, the Shaws are consumed with clog dancing, ear ly music, and the War Between the States. But they do possess a computer, a nd when 17-year-old Henry stumbles into his mother's e-mail account and epi stolary evidence of her affair with a Ukrainian violinist, he becomes consu med with this glimpse into her life as a woman, not simply a mother. To pi cture my mother a lover, I had at first to break her in my mind's eye, hold her over my knee, like a stick, bust her in two. When that was done, when I had changed her like that, I could see her in a different way. I could pu t her through the motions like a jointed puppet, all dancy in the limbs, lo ose, nothing to hold her up but me. While his mother (whom he refers to va riously as Mrs. Shaw, Beth, and her e-mail sobriquet, Liza38), dallies with her pen pal, whom she calls "the companion of my body, the guest of my hea rt," Henry experiences his own sexual awakening; his 13-year-old sister, El vira, retreats into gender-bending historical fantasy; and their father rem ains determinedly absorbed in pedagogical responsibilities.
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Hamilton, Jane The Book of Ruth
Anchor December 1, 198 0-385-26570-0 / 9780385265706 Paperback Very Good
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: 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.
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Hamilton, Jane The Short History of a Prince
Black Swan April 1, 1999 0-552-99801-X / 9780552998017 Paperback Near Fine
As a teenager in Oak Ridge, Illinois, Walter McCloud is desperate for adven ture, hoping for love and success as a dancer. "If life for Walter was comp osed in part of confusion, shame and deception, the ballet was order, digni ty and forthright beauty." In 1995, at 38, nothing has turned out as he had expected. Having spent years working in a dollhouse shop in New York and e ngaging in that city's ready sexual excitement, Walter finally returns to h is Midwestern roots, accepting a teaching job in Otten, Wisconsin--a place that might have little to recommend it save its proximity to his family's s ummer home. ("It had taken Walter several years to admit to himself that he couldn't go on indefinitely selling Lilliputian Coke bottles and microscop ic toilet-roll dowels.") In this new community, he will have to keep his he ad down, a stance that has long suited him, because he prefers to hold one memory of lost intimacy and perfection in high, private relief. Walter's exile, or new start, allows memory to come to the fore, particularly that painful year in which his brother was dying of Hodgkin's and he and his fellow dancers were dying for experience. Jane Hamilton explores the distance between desire and reality, satisfaction and secrecy, irresistibly alternating between past and present. At first, we can't wait for Walter to break through, and it's tempting to race through her prince's history--one which is, happily, not that short. But to do so would be to miss out on Hamilton's fine major and minor characters and her exploration of competition, complicity, and silence. At one point, Walter fears that his pupils have "no clue
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