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The Marriage Of Sticks (Paperback)

by Jonathan Carroll (Author)
4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Indigo; New edition edition (10 Aug 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0575402490
  • ISBN-13: 978-0575402492
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.4 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 136,403 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The easy way to describe Jonathan Carroll's novels is to call them indescribable. Since his strange debut The Land of Laughs (1980), he's developed his own special flavour of fantastic or magic-realist unease. The protagonists have wonderful and successful lives, glowingly described--this latest book stars a popular, high-living and attractive woman who loves her lucrative career as a rare book dealer. As always in Carroll, though, the glittering surface of Miranda's good life conceals a certain hollowness. Shocking booby-traps await her, stabs of horror and loss from unexpected directions. Small indicators of wrongness accumulate: a wheelchair-bound woman glimpsed in an impossible place on a Los Angeles superhighway, a dog set on fire, a hospice named Fieberglas misheard as "Fever Glass". Dead men and unborn children seem to stalk Miranda. At one point she notices a scene from her tragically interrupted love affair showing on the giant screen of a deserted drive-in movie theatre. Neither Miranda nor the world are quite as she believes: but when she's been openly, nightmarishly condemned for being what she is, there is for once a slender chance of renunciation and redemption. The finale is enigmatic but oddly satisfying. You don't easily forget a Carroll book. --David Langford --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Returning to her class reunion, Miranda Romanac has her heart set on meeting James Stillman, her first boyfriend, once again. Her life's never quite measured up to the ideal he represented for her but she is devastated to learn that he died three years before, in a car crash. Her life settles back into routine in New York, and she meets the fabulous Frances Hatch, mistress of many of the great in Paris in the twenties, and at the same time starts an affair with a married man. Then she sees James Stillman, waving to her across the street. And her life changes forever. Confronted, literally, by the lives she's ruined one way or another, she learns the horrifying truth about herself and her own immortal existence.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A real triumph. He just gets better and better, 20 April 1999
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This review is from: The Marriage Of Sticks (Hardcover)
If you love Robertson Davies. If you love Gabriel Garcia Marquez.Paul Auster. John Irving. Tim Burton or Salman Rushdie. If you love wonder, romance, a world full of possibilities that may just get you some place you need to go, read this book. Read any book by Jonathan Carroll and suddenly you'll realize you've been looking for this writer a long time. THE MARRIAGE OF STICKS is everything he does well, BUT more romantic and touching in the end. I didn't know whether I should laugh or cry. I wanted to do both.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Like learning to fly without wings, 1 April 1999
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This novel was recently published in Poland in translation. I had to go to three bookstores to find a copy because all of the others had sold out already. But Jonathan Carroll does that to you when you know his work. This story is a great one-- as usual it is visionary, romantic, wonderfully written and so full of wisdom that you want to underline every fifth line and take it with you into the restof your life. The one thing the book is NOT is horror!
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Art, ghosts, adultery and dogs - what more could you want?, 21 Sep 2000
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This was my first Jonathan Carroll book, but it certainly won't be my last. It starts as a piece of contemporary fiction, with rare-book dealer Miranda starting an affair with art expert Hugh Oakley. Carroll takes his time developing his characters, so much so that when the supernatural elements kick in later, there's no question of not believing in them.

Halfway through, there's a shocking twist (for both the characters and the reader), and then Miranda begins a series of bizarre experiences which challenge her sense of self and the world around her. And to cap it all, there's another neat twist at the end. Brilliant stuff! And plenty of dogs, too.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Stick With It
Miranda returns to a class reunion, setting her heart on meeting her first boyfriend, James Stillman. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Typical Carroll
This book is brilliant. It's fabulous, just buy a copy and read it. You won't be disappointed.
Published 23 months ago by Marc Lyth

2.0 out of 5 stars from boring to incomprehensible
I had big problems to stick to the plot. The first part describes the life of Miranda, the main character. Read more
Published on 19 Oct 2001 by jeanfrancoisrit

5.0 out of 5 stars The marriage of reality and mystery
The book, like so much of Carroll's work, appears to show the affect of the mystical or magical when it touches upon the lives or freal people. Read more
Published on 23 Sep 2001 by jhildred@unlimited.com

5.0 out of 5 stars one of literature's great visionaries does it again
In a blurb somewhere, Pat Conroy said that Carroll is a cult waiting to be born. It's time for the birth. Read more
Published on 2 Mar 2000

5.0 out of 5 stars The ultimate Carroll....
For those readers who are familiar with the wonderful writing of Jonathan Carroll...you have been waiting for this book. Read more
Published on 31 Mar 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars The Magic Is Back!!
I have also been fortunate to read an advance copy of Carroll's new one. Wow. This is a return to form for Carroll, tackling the Big Stuff, and feeling like you are floating... Read more
Published on 26 Mar 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars Might well be Carroll's masterpiece
I was lucky enough to get hold of an early copy of the book and it held me spellbound for two days and nights. As usual, Carroll offers up romance (and oh, what a romance! Read more
Published on 25 Mar 1999

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