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`Simply sensational ... Kennedy is an absolute master at love stories with heart-stopping twists' --The Times
`Kennedy, like William Boyd and Paul Watkins, has always managed to walk that precarious tight-rope of credibility between the twin towers of popular and literary fiction' --Independent on Sunday
`Crush[es] any doubts about this prolific author's status as a stylish popular novelist and a classy purveyor of the gripping yarn.'
--Irish Times
`Kennedy is an absolute master at love stories with heart-stopping twists, but even if you know this and read along expecting the unexpected, the denouement will have you feeling about as intense as printed words can make you... With its glorious evocation of a love affair at its highest height tempered by a wonderful supporting cast of Berlin's distressed beauties and freaks - the people and the buildings - 'The Moment' is simply sensational.' --The Times
`Epic novels, covering decades, great emotional drama and deep political schisms, have become an all too rare thing - certainly those that really zing with life and painful truths. So thank goodness for Douglas Kennedy. An American with a great European literary sensibility, he has produced a number of best-sellers marrying recent big historical events with finely-tuned tales of personal relationships and desires. The Moment, aside from being his tenth novel, is his most ambitious to date and most deeply felt. One way or another, writers rob from what is real and The Moment feels strikingly real... I used to think characters made novels, not settings. However, in The Moment, Douglas Kennedy has created a love story that's very much a product of a particular time and place, and yet the conclusion is beautifully understanding and universal.' --Daily Mirror
`Kennedy, like William Boyd and Paul Watkins, has always managed to walk that precarious tight-rope of credibility between the twin towers of popular and literary fiction... Kennedy is particularly adept at capturing the ugliness of modern life... He captures with acuity men's self-destructive nature and the eddies in which husbands, fathers and sons find themselves caught ... A great read.' --Independent on Sunday
`Douglas Kennedy's 10th novel, The Moment, a tome running to almost 500 pages, is weighty enough to crush any doubts about this prolific author's status as a stylish popular novelist and a classy purveyor of the gripping yarn... It is the quality of evaluation, this conscious appraisal of unforeseen loss, of gallant naivety, of the bullish youthful belief in the right to happiness, that sets Kennedy's work apart from that of many other popular novelists... It is a gripping read and an honest attempt to address human frailty while playing out our minor destinies in the face of great love and desperate loss.' --The Irish Times
`Douglas Kennedy is back with his 10th novel, The Moment. In this gripping love story, a man receives a package from a woman with whom he had a love affair during the Cold War.'
--Good Housekeeping
`A morally complex page-turner.' --Red Red Red Red magazine
`The two central characters of Thomas and Petra are wonderful. They both come across as living, breathing individuals. This is a beautifully written book which is all about an enduring love, despite what some would describe as truly insurmountable circumstances. Highly recommended.' --thebookbag.co.uk
`Kennedy, like William Boyd and Paul Watkins, has always managed to walk that precarious tight-rope of credibility between the twin towers of popular and literary fiction' --Independent on Sunday
`Crush[es] any doubts about this prolific author's status as a stylish popular novelist and a classy purveyor of the gripping yarn.'
--Irish Times
`Kennedy is an absolute master at love stories with heart-stopping twists, but even if you know this and read along expecting the unexpected, the denouement will have you feeling about as intense as printed words can make you... With its glorious evocation of a love affair at its highest height tempered by a wonderful supporting cast of Berlin's distressed beauties and freaks - the people and the buildings - 'The Moment' is simply sensational.' --The Times
`Epic novels, covering decades, great emotional drama and deep political schisms, have become an all too rare thing - certainly those that really zing with life and painful truths. So thank goodness for Douglas Kennedy. An American with a great European literary sensibility, he has produced a number of best-sellers marrying recent big historical events with finely-tuned tales of personal relationships and desires. The Moment, aside from being his tenth novel, is his most ambitious to date and most deeply felt. One way or another, writers rob from what is real and The Moment feels strikingly real... I used to think characters made novels, not settings. However, in The Moment, Douglas Kennedy has created a love story that's very much a product of a particular time and place, and yet the conclusion is beautifully understanding and universal.' --Daily Mirror
`Kennedy, like William Boyd and Paul Watkins, has always managed to walk that precarious tight-rope of credibility between the twin towers of popular and literary fiction... Kennedy is particularly adept at capturing the ugliness of modern life... He captures with acuity men's self-destructive nature and the eddies in which husbands, fathers and sons find themselves caught ... A great read.' --Independent on Sunday
`Douglas Kennedy's 10th novel, The Moment, a tome running to almost 500 pages, is weighty enough to crush any doubts about this prolific author's status as a stylish popular novelist and a classy purveyor of the gripping yarn... It is the quality of evaluation, this conscious appraisal of unforeseen loss, of gallant naivety, of the bullish youthful belief in the right to happiness, that sets Kennedy's work apart from that of many other popular novelists... It is a gripping read and an honest attempt to address human frailty while playing out our minor destinies in the face of great love and desperate loss.' --The Irish Times
`Douglas Kennedy is back with his 10th novel, The Moment. In this gripping love story, a man receives a package from a woman with whom he had a love affair during the Cold War.'
--Good Housekeeping
`A morally complex page-turner.' --Red Red Red Red magazine
`The two central characters of Thomas and Petra are wonderful. They both come across as living, breathing individuals. This is a beautifully written book which is all about an enduring love, despite what some would describe as truly insurmountable circumstances. Highly recommended.' --thebookbag.co.uk
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From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Leaving the World comes a tragic love story set in Cold War Berlin.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
ONE OF HIS BEST,
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This review is from: The Moment (Paperback)
Really enjoy reading Douglas Kennedy and absolutely loved this book. A few people had told me that it was a slow beginning but I have to disagree as I found myself completely absorbed from the start. This story is about a very intense love affair between two people living in Berlin pre the wall coming down. It was not only of great historical interest but also a very good insight into the lives of so many people who were affected by the cold war. An excellent and well written novel.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not quite back to form,
By Michael63 "Michael63" (Belfast, Northern Ireland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Moment (Paperback)
My first impression of the first 150 pages of The Moment was that it was total sugary romantic nonsense which must surely have lost a high proportion of male readers, I really struggled to believe it was written by Douglas Kennedy. However I persevered and was pleased to find the old Kennedy kicking in and a good story unravel. Even with the improvement it still doesn't touch his earlier works, which I have read and re-read and heartedly recommend to anyone who will listen to me, but I don't think I will be drawn back to the pages of The Moment for a second time. I really wanted to love this book but sadly I can only stretch to a luke warm like on the occasion.
25 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Sadly still a long way from his earlier form....,
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This review is from: The Moment (Paperback)
I loved Douglas Kennedy's earlier books - I have recommended them to many book loving friends and as an avid reader I went on to buy his later books and was sadly very disappointed. I was hoping that this book would bring him back to his earlier form. In the first instance I disliked Thomas Nesbitt the main character - I found him arrogant, self centered and too too perfect. I also found the dialogue to be strained - would people really say some of the things Kennedy puts into their mouths - high intellectualism at the drop of a hat as in the conversation he has with his daughter. When I ask to whom is this book directed the idea of his homosexual heroin using painter flat mate was dark and unpleasant - the whole life style unappealing & sordid - then suddenly Petra appears and this over sugary love story in thrust into the middle of the action - the word "love" appearing in every other sentence. Are we looking for a male or female reader? Petra's story is right out of "The Lives of Others" (one of my favourite films of all times) and thus trite and although I am as yet only have way through the book it will have to go a long way to redeem itself.
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