- Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: Picador; New edition edition (7 July 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 033035275X
- ISBN-13: 978-0330352758
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,748,047 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Elizabeth Hallhead is dying. She has returned to Ireland almost half a century after she left to prepare for her impending death. She feels compelled to tell the story she has carried with her for most of her life, a tale which will touch the lives of those she tells.
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The End Is Nigh. Maybe w/ Heavenly Love Before It Gets Here.,
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This review is from: A Haunted Heart (Paperback)
Important note: though Ireland's County Kildare is famous for its horses, the novel A Haunted Heart has nothing to do with country star Sammy Kershaw's 1993 album of the same name. No Shania Twain singing backup vocals, sadly.John McKeena's novel has good bellybuttons of its own. Two sides of A Haunted Heart's love triangle are beautiful young women. But, as these extrordinary Victorians are uber-devout Quakers, there's not a chance of any flesh below the jawline being revealed. Or is there? Third triangle side: the charismatic Joshua Jacob, whose passion and powerful speech attract Elizabeth and Abigail into his small nineteenth-century utopian commune. Perfect fraternity and heavenly love here on Earth? Heaven's not where he's keeping his eyes. Good intentions? Harsh reality? Strange, coming-of-age feelings bursting at their chastity-belt seams? Tension builds. It is soon clear, Jacob's right about one thing: The End is Nigh. The novel is structured as a story-within-a-story. The narrator is a dying Elizabeth, who has returned from England to her native Athy, Co. Kildare in the 1959 after more than half a century of self-imposed exile. There's a two-fold tension: what happened all those years ago, with Abagail and Joshua Jacob and the White Friends? And, will she find the person that she is currently seeking, and be able to deliver this story that she is spending her last, painful days, confessing onto paper? A short, solid, novel. Excellent observations, sincere emotion, characters who deliver true insight. And, at one stage, efforts to recreate Eden on earth have nutty sisters running around in fig leaves! Yowza. Cool thing? That episode actually happened. The White Friends were real, fig leaves and all. McKenna invoked artistic license to advance the movement from the 1840's to the close of the century, but his research is spot-on. The dude knows history and our place within. Three stars out of five, says Mick. Truth gets my nod, but I'm a go-go boot type of guy. Romance Readers who find it easy to slip into old woman shoes will doubtless enjoy the novel more.
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