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Palimpsest (Paperback)

by Catherynne Valente (Author)
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  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Spectra Books (24 Feb 2009)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0553385763
  • ISBN-13: 978-0553385762
  • Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 13.2 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 55,063 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars amazing book!, 24 Feb 2009
Wow! I've loved all Ms Valente's and have been waiting with increasing impatience for the release of Palimpsest.

It does not disappoint! the language, is beautiful and rich, poetry on the page, each word perfectly placed to follow the last.

This is a book to be treasured, to be read over and over again, to be carried round and dipped into.
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2.0 out of 5 stars An acquired taste, perhaps, 13 May 2009
By avidreader (Guildford United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
'Palimpsest' has the fervid texture of a drugged dream. Dreams can stir powerful emotions whilst you are caught in their grip, immersed in their almost-logic, almost-sense...

Contrast that then, with how you reflect upon your dreams (or other altered-state episodes) when you awaken, and the rest of your mind comes into play. I myself wonder at how such trivial, banal or just plain nonsensical events, experiences could have seemed so freighted with meaning, how that altered state caused you to assign such weight of significance to so little substance, to make so many connections on no real evidence and how waking life with its mundanities and effort is so much the richer, complex and rewarding.

Like dreams, I find this book unsatisfying, and for much the same reasons. You may find quite the reverse...but how do you then find your life?
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