- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Nal Trade; First Printing edition (July 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0451203739
- ISBN-13: 978-0451203731
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13.5 x 1.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,475,344 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Family healing
10 Jan 2002
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This little book is an artfully constructed account of family healing with three voices. A grandfther's diary, a father's letters and his young daughter's diary bring together a story of love and reconnection. This is a quick read and worth the time spent.
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Something to think about!
2 Jan 2004
Format:Paperback
The diary style used in this book is not new. Other good books have been diaries and the relationship between the three main characters gives the reader something to think about. Several reviewers mentioned problems with the shift in times and characters but that is the way real life is. We all experience memories and thoughts of the future while experiencing the present. Steve Thayer helps the reader out by using different fonts for each character. This is a short novel that weaves the stories of three lives and how they intertwine. It also raises issues that are of importance. It is hard to tell a good story in 150 pages, but this author does it. As for missing details, I feel that is for the reader to fill in. A willingness to create a relationship with this novel rather than to simply read the words is a key part of the experience. The author invites the reader to think and connect the dots. I liked that!
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Moon Over Lake Elmo...
25 April 2002
Format:Paperback
Moon Over Lake Elmo is a novel that you have to read very carefully to fully appreciate it's contents. The book is not written in a sequence of events or narrated, it is composed of letters written from the main character to his daughter and of journal entries varying in dates from the 1950's to the 1990's. I think Steve Thayer does a good job of portraying an American family and all the problems they go through in fairly good detail. Millions of Americans come from broken homes as divorce is no longer as uncommon as it was in past times, so many readers can relate to these types of problems with relative ease. The fact that the book is written out of journal entries & letters gives the reader a very personal insight into what someone might go through in such a situation. It is a good read, in my opinion, and I would reccomend it.
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