- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Indigo; New edition edition (10 Aug 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0575402490
- ISBN-13: 978-0575402492
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.4 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 194,947 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The easy way to describe Jonathan Carroll's novels is to call them indescribable. Since his strange debut The Land of Laughs (1980), he's developed his own special flavour of fantastic or magic-realist unease. The protagonists have wonderful and successful lives, glowingly described--this latest book stars a popular, high-living and attractive woman who loves her lucrative career as a rare book dealer. As always in Carroll, though, the glittering surface of Miranda's good life conceals a certain hollowness. Shocking booby-traps await her, stabs of horror and loss from unexpected directions. Small indicators of wrongness accumulate: a wheelchair-bound woman glimpsed in an impossible place on a Los Angeles superhighway, a dog set on fire, a hospice named Fieberglas misheard as "Fever Glass". Dead men and unborn children seem to stalk Miranda. At one point she notices a scene from her tragically interrupted love affair showing on the giant screen of a deserted drive-in movie theatre. Neither Miranda nor the world are quite as she believes: but when she's been openly, nightmarishly condemned for being what she is, there is for once a slender chance of renunciation and redemption. The finale is enigmatic but oddly satisfying. You don't easily forget a Carroll book. --David Langford
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Returning to her class reunion, Miranda Romanac has her heart set on meeting James Stillman, her first boyfriend, once again. Her life's never quite measured up to the ideal he represented for her but she is devastated to learn that he died three years before, in a car crash. Her life settles back into routine in New York, and she meets the fabulous Frances Hatch, mistress of many of the great in Paris in the twenties, and at the same time starts an affair with a married man. Then she sees James Stillman, waving to her across the street. And her life changes forever. Confronted, literally, by the lives she's ruined one way or another, she learns the horrifying truth about herself and her own immortal existence.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A real triumph. He just gets better and better,
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This review is from: The Marriage Of Sticks (Hardcover)
If you love Robertson Davies. If you love Gabriel Garcia Marquez.Paul Auster. John Irving. Tim Burton or Salman Rushdie. If you love wonder, romance, a world full of possibilities that may just get you some place you need to go, read this book. Read any book by Jonathan Carroll and suddenly you'll realize you've been looking for this writer a long time. THE MARRIAGE OF STICKS is everything he does well, BUT more romantic and touching in the end. I didn't know whether I should laugh or cry. I wanted to do both.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Like learning to fly without wings,
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This review is from: The Marriage Of Sticks (Hardcover)
This novel was recently published in Poland in translation. I had to go to three bookstores to find a copy because all of the others had sold out already. But Jonathan Carroll does that to you when you know his work. This story is a great one-- as usual it is visionary, romantic, wonderfully written and so full of wisdom that you want to underline every fifth line and take it with you into the restof your life. The one thing the book is NOT is horror!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The ultimate Carroll....,
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This review is from: The Marriage Of Sticks (Hardcover)
For those readers who are familiar with the wonderful writing of Jonathan Carroll...you have been waiting for this book. For those not yet familiar, Marriage of Sticks is a wonderful place to begin. You will be captivated by his characters from the moment you first meet them. This book is filled with magic and mystery, written in a sexy, thought provoking, tender manner.... with the humour and wit we have come to love in all of his stories. I envy anyone who has yet to read this wonderful novel.
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