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The bestselling novel from the beloved author of Writing Down the Bones, Wild Mind, and Long Quiet Highway is now available in paperback for the first time. With a half-million copies in print of her three remarkable books of nonfiction, Natalie Goldberg has inspired a generation of writers with her insight, humor, and empathy. Subtly hilarious and achingly raw, her first novel Banana Rose has rewarded her devoted fans while attracting a whole new readership to her work.
Banana Rose is the story of Nell Schwartz, a Brooklyn-born Jewish girl who moves to the Taos of communes and sweet cedar smoke, transforms herself into Banana Rose (because she's "bananas"), falls in love with a horn player named Gauguin, and believes they can stop time if they just love hard enough. It's also about Nell and Anna, a strange-eyed writer as lonely as the Nebraska farm where she grew up, whose kisses taste like raspberries and who teaches Nell what it means to be an artist. But most of all, Banana Rose is about Nell's struggle with her own wild heart, with the demands of canvas and paint, with her family and faith, and with her irrepressible longing for home.
Banana Rose is the story of Nell Schwartz, a Brooklyn-born Jewish girl who moves to the Taos of communes and sweet cedar smoke, transforms herself into Banana Rose (because she's "bananas"), falls in love with a horn player named Gauguin, and believes they can stop time if they just love hard enough. It's also about Nell and Anna, a strange-eyed writer as lonely as the Nebraska farm where she grew up, whose kisses taste like raspberries and who teaches Nell what it means to be an artist. But most of all, Banana Rose is about Nell's struggle with her own wild heart, with the demands of canvas and paint, with her family and faith, and with her irrepressible longing for home.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Banana Rose is one of those books that make me glad to know that writers like Natalie Goldberg are in the world. I first took this book out of the library, and immediately fell in love with it. I took it out of the library a few more times, and then finally got my own copy. Anytime I want to remember Taos, or the dreams of what could have been in a believable character's life - or in my own, for that matter - I read Banana Rose. The book just makes me feel better; no small feat in this world. Goldberg also does a good job of making all of the other characters - besides Banana Rose, Gauguin and Anna - very much alive. Blue is one of my favourites. I can "see" all these people. The book rambles a bit here and there, but it's worth hanging in through those parts, for the magic of the whole.
I can't recommend this book highly enough.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have re-read this book many times and I always get something different from it. The way the author writes makes me feel as if I am there. You almost feel as the chararcters are real. They syayed with me long after I read the book for the first time.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Banana Rose is the best book I've ever read. You can just tell that the main character, Nell, is just an extension of Natalie Goldberg, the writer. The book is very descriptive and moving and funny as hell so I'd recommend it to everybody.
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Banana Rose is honest, compelling, and trully beautiful.
I did a week long workshop with Natalie Goldberg and she is a real and spiritual woman. Banana Rose is special to me. Read more
Published on 10 Feb 1999
A disappointing effort
I loved Natalie Goldberg's books about writing, which is why I found the novel so disappointing. The style is odd; it feels both too intentional, and also too much like a... Read more
Published on 10 Sep 1998
tales of the sixties about a hippy woman etc...
elegaic tone and wonderfully written--gives
a good feel for the times--we were all so young
then--
the food stuff is memorable--especially the
grilled cheese... Read more
Published on 29 April 1998
It hit me in the heart.
Banana Rose is an almost plotless book but it hit me in the deepest place, namely the heart. An coming of age spiritual oddesy that finds Banana falling in love and growing into... Read more
Published on 6 Oct 1997
too much damn food!
Not bad... Wish a page could have passed without food being mentioned. For someone who spends all her time writing about writing, it could have been
better written.
better written.
Published on 20 Aug 1997
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