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At Paradise Gate (Flamingo original) (Paperback)

by Jane Smiley (Author)
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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Flamingo; First UK Edition edition (4 Dec 1995)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0006547737
  • ISBN-13: 978-0006547730
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13.2 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 850,978 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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In his bedroom upstairs, 77-year-old Ike Robinson is dying. Down in the living room his wife, Anna, defends the citadel of their marriage against an ill-considered, albeit loving, invasion by their three middle-aged daughters and 23-year-old granddaughter. By the author of "A Thousand Acres".


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Jane Smiley was born in LA, grew up in St Louis and studied at Vassar and Iowa. She won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Award in 1992 for 'A Thousand Acres'.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Grief and Family Relationships, 11 Sep 2009
By E. Shaw "Kokoschka's_cat" (Leeds, England) - See all my reviews
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This is a book about grief and family relationships - like a million other books, I suppose, and I must admit I was not much enamoured at the beginning. And this book has the usual warm and tingly tentacles common to American sentimentorama - luckily it also has a measure of intelligence. Sometimes the tentacles threaten to strangle the intelligence, but one can usually put up with them, as they seem to come with the territory increasingly often.

Ike, the patriarch, is dying - I'm not really sure what of - heart problems, probably. He is 77, so it can't be described as a tragedy. We inhabit his wife Anna's consciousness - a few years younger, she has a sparky and defensive attitude. Her three daughters and her granddaughter Christine (and Christine's dog Nelson) are daily visitors. Christine is going through something of a crisis in her marriage and her aunts and mother are ever-ready with advice and censure, as they are about everything. At times one wants to tell them to shut up and let the poor woman alone.

Much of the time is spent on meal preparation, family chit-chat and reminiscing - is it only in American families, I wonder, that everyone remembers past events so clearly? But enough with the carping: this is a good read which starts off rather too slowly, but which becomes picks up well later on. If you are looking for Jane at the height of her powers, however, I'd say read Horse Heaven.
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