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MotherKind: A Novel
A major new novel that depicts the challenges of family life with contemporary force and timeless grace, from the acclaimed author of Machine Dreams and Shelter.
Formerly free-spirited, unattached Kate enters into roles of enormous responsibility: as she takes the first steps into a new marriage complete with her own beloved infant and two lively young stepsons, she becomes caregiver to her ailing mother, the strong woman who has been her guiding star and counterpart across a divide of experience and time. Kate must, in a single year, confront profound loss alongside radiant beginnings.
Jayne Anne Phillips transforms quotidian details into a shimmering whole, giving us Kate and her family in all the complexity their world offers. Phillips? renowned skill at portraiture combines with her equally nuanced sense of narrative in this heartstrong and delicately layered novel. more
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- Posted: Jul-27-2006
And the point is.........
This book had great potential, but no point. There were so many loose ends. I guess that's like life, but it doesn't make for good reading. Ugh. Painful.
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- Posted: Nov-08-2002
Not recommended
Some fine things, sometimes very poetical but on the whole rather boring. Not much happen, no real development of character, no interesting insights. Some parts was extraordinarily boring especially the description of the marriage, it was like straight out from a glossy magazine for the...
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- Posted: Jul-25-2002
A MEDITATION ON DEATH AND BIRTH AND LIVING
I didn't find this novel to be the easiest thing to read that I've picked up in the last few months -- but, that being said, I felt that the beauty of the language compelled me to finish it, once I had begun.Jayne Anne Phillips has taken on a monumental task in writing this book. She has reduced...
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- Posted: Jun-13-2002
Wonderful
America's greatest author triumphs again with this absolutely stunning new work. Returning to themes familiar to her many loyal readers, Phillips incontrovertibly demonstrates that no other author could find so many interesting ways to present the same material again and again. Her boundless...
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- Posted: Jan-31-2002
Didn't finish it
This is one of those books that I wanted to like more than I did. The characters are interesting and the sense of time and place are moving, but ultimately it didn't move me. I suggest people take it out of the library or buy a used copy (as I did) if they're going to buy it.
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- Posted: Jul-29-2001
No Story here at all
I found this book very boring and it took me a real long time to finish it. The character are not strong enough to hold interest and there really wasn't any story at all. I cannot recommend this book to anyone.
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- Posted: Jun-02-2001
Nicely written.
Phillips' writing just flows easily from one chapter to the next. In this semi-autobiographical novel, Phillips illustrates the bond between a mother and daughter from birth to death, and the various ways in which all women become nurturers. Kate discovers she's pregnant shortly after her own...
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- Posted: Mar-17-2001
Really bad.
I can't believe I spent $13 on this book. It reads like the rough draft of a novel--not an actual novel. It's banal. The heroine is nursing her baby and her breasts are sore! Wow! What an insight! Phillips' brain must have been on auto-pilot when she wrote this. It got decent reviews in the media...
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- Posted: Dec-08-2000
did I actually read it all?
This book seemed like a glimpse of someone's hectic everyday life. I am amazed I finished it. I enjoyed the author's writing style (some great imagery and thought connections) but the story never amounted to anything. The characters seemed like aquaintences-I knew some details of their lives but...
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- Posted: Aug-19-2000
Compelling tale of the agony of the sandwich generation
This story about birth and death is lyrical and replete with sensory detail. I found the visit to the toy store to be a particularly effective use of graphic nuances that made the reader actually join her on the trips down the aisles. The reader feels the real constraint of time that is the...
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