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Neel Mukherjee, The Times
'This book is a thing of exquisite beauty, a joy forever'
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A magical illustrated book - a 'visual novel' - by the bestselling author of The Time Traveler's Wife.
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34 of 35 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Swayed by a Sunday Times review, I bought this book and it is certainly a lovely looking work and obviously a labour of love. Each page is a colour illustration with minimal text, since the story is told through the pictures. Don't be put off by the title, there is nothing perverted about this story! It's a tale of love, jealousy, loss and redemption and is a lovely thing to own, especially at the Amazon price! It wasn't something I, personally, would come back to again and again so I have passed it on to someone else to enjoy but at such a good price for such a nice looking thing, take a chance and find out for yourself!
25 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
For anyone looking for the next 'Time Travellers Wife' this book is not for you. It is however, a beautifully designed picture novel which could easily be read in minutes but spending a little longer looking at each image makes the experience of 'reading' this well worthwhile.
The illustrations are fantastically quirky, the story is both sad and funny and all in all this is a really unique book that will take pride of place on any bookshelf.
Well worth a look
The illustrations are fantastically quirky, the story is both sad and funny and all in all this is a really unique book that will take pride of place on any bookshelf.
Well worth a look
52 of 61 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Here it is--Audrey Niffenegger's strange follow-up to her wildly popular novel "The Time Traveler's Wife." The new book is a "visual novel" of 176 pages and can be read in well under an hour--though, hopefully, you'll spend days pouring over the gorgeous pictures. Open up the book and you find that for every picture on a right-hand page there is a brief narrative caption on the left-hand page. I can best describe the artwork as being a lot like Edward Gorey (actually, the whole aesthetic of the book is Gorey-esque), a bit like Gustav Klimt (imagine Gorey getting it into his head to do Klimt figures), and not a small bit like the art of Dominic Kulcsar on his website The Wmmvrrvrrmm Place--really, up till now Dominic is the only person I know of who made good use of floating fetuses.
And the book isn't as creepy as it sounds. The "incest" business comes in this way. . . The story concerns three lonely sisters. The youngest sister falls in love with a strange man, and the oldest sister becomes wickedly jealous, thinking that she too loves the young man. When the youngest sister becomes pregnant, the middle sister begins a mystical relationship with the fetus, becoming her unborn nephew's spiritual mentor. That's about as weird as it gets--but I suppose that's weird enough!
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Strange and Beautiful
I adored this book. It is strange and otherworldly. I feel it brought out all of the best qualities of The Time Traveller's Wife and magnified them. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Natasha Puszczynska
Brilliant
Pictures are superb... I love this book!
It's not like her novels so expect something completely different, if not a little weird and wonderful. Read more
It's not like her novels so expect something completely different, if not a little weird and wonderful. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Everyone's a critic
BOOK
I DID NOT LIKE THIS BOOK I THOUGHT THE PICTURES WEIRD AND BOOK OVER RATED
Published 19 months ago by BLUE
returned
I returned this book and another from the same author as they were PICTURE BOOKS.. I am not entirely certain that this was clearly displayed when i purchased them I have enjoyed a... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Mrs. Sheila A. Mcglynn
The Three Incestuous Sisters
Beautiful pictures, but the story is very strange & took about 20 mins to read. Not suitable for children in my opinion.
Published 21 months ago by Roxalana
Angels and ghosts
Three sisters who live alone in an isolated house on the edge of town have their lives disrupted when a handsome young man falls in love with one of the sisters. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Sam Quixote
my thoughts so far...
I just received this book this morning. Ive got to admit I was surprised and disappointed at the fact that its a novel in pictures. I didnt feel this was made clear. Read more
Published on 2 Jun 2010 by S. donohue
Another book of illustrations
Having read the Time travellers wife, I was very dissapointed with this book. This book is pretty, bound really nicely but not a novel, its just a book filled with picutures and... Read more
Published on 24 Mar 2010 by E. Morgan
beautiful book
This is a book written in topic comment grammar. This makes it useful to those of us who value topic comment grammar as more than just 'bad' grammar - the evil twin of 'proper'... Read more
Published on 28 Nov 2006 by cinnamonbrandy@
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