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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: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 64,352 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2 of 4 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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5.0 out of 5 stars Heady and extraordinary, 5 Oct 2009
This is an incredible book. Cat Valente's honeyed explosion of ideas and images is as addictive as the dream city she has created: hugely tragic, yearning, surreal and overpowering. I loved the fairytale setting of her "In the night garden" books, but this is a modern-day story with a far darker feel. In amongst the decadence and otherness she tells of the obsessive needs of four individuals and how far they'll go to get the only thing they can see. It builds, and the ending is just perfection.

Her best yet, from an author I already greatly admired - this book deserves some serious recognition! Warren Ellis had it exactly right: "A book of mad inventive wonder: there are more ideas on one page of this than on a hundred of anything else, told in stunning, jewelled language. --Warren Ellis".
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2.0 out of 5 stars An acquired taste, perhaps, 13 May 2009
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'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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