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The Ragged Mountain Press Pocket Guide to Wilderness Medicine and First Aid
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Compact enough to carry easily on a wilderness trip, complete enough to cover virtually every conceivable wilderness first-aid problem. A bestseller.
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The classic key to identifying native trees of the Pacific Coast, updated to reflect changes in the names of trees since publication of the first edition. Identifies native trees, and some widely introduced or naturalized species, of the Pacific Coast region, from British Columbia to Baja California. In this edition, Latin names of trees that grow in California conform to the University of California's 1993 Jepson Manual, and more recent name changes. From the Finders series of pocket guides to native plants and animals of the U.S. and Canada; like all plant guides in the series, this book uses a dichotomous key format for accurate identification.
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Even professionals can use help.......2007-03-09
As a certified arborist I was having a little trouble with my winter i.d. of trees. This little book has helped tremendously.
great guide in a sparse field of study.......2006-03-15
The "Winter Tree Finder" by May Theilgaard Watts and Tom Watts is a compact little gem.
I have not been able to find such a comprehensive and easily portable guide to using leaf scars, buds, and twigs to identify trees in any other source.
The entire book is only 58 pages long and easily fits in a pocket or backpack. Page 1 includes a nice diagram and description of the parts of a twig. Then you progress through a series of questions and drawings that helps you arrive at the identification of the tree. The last few pages include an index and the rear cover has a little measuring rule.
On the whole, this is a useful and fun guide to trees while hiking in the winter.
Useful and extremely portable.......2006-02-17
This is a fine little guide. It's close to the perfect field guide on this under-treated subject--physically small, light and reasonably complete. If your nature rambles don't stop when it gets cold, you should consider this little volume.
Great pocket tree identifier........2005-10-23
I like the way this book allows anyone to identify trees in winter. Its small size makes it easy to carry one a hike. A must for the backpack.
Great little book.......1998-01-22
This book does a very sensible job of helping people idnetify trees when the normal folliage is missing.
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Guide to identifying native trees of the Pacific Coast region, from British Columbia to Baja California, by their leaves and needles. Organized as a dichotomous key, the book leads the user through a series of simple questions about the shape or appearance of different parts of a tree. Illustrated with line drawings. The small (6" by 4") format fits in pocket or pack to take along on a hike.
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This book roolz.......2003-05-29
I've been carrying around a now-dog-eared copy of this book for about 25 years. It is an essential guide for those of us who want to know what we are looking at, but aren't out enough to memorize all those trees. Bravo!
Harmony with Our World.......2000-08-28
The Pacifc Coast Tree Finder is an excellent way to tune in to those stately giants and miniture cousins of the forests surrounding us. Easy questions about the unknown start in the front. Simple choices (needles or scales vs. ordinary leaves?) lead logically from one choice to another. Quickly, one confidently identifies the tree they are quizical about. I always feel more at one with Nature when I am able to know what is around me. This book has been a great companion for many years. An excellent choice for those seeking quickness and simplicity without having to "wade" through thicker, complicated nature identifer books.
Excellent.......2000-02-07
I first used the original "Tree Finder" as a Scout almost 30 years ago, and was delighted to find this Pacific Coast version on a recent trip to Big Sur. Like the original, it seems to be an absolutely foolproof means of identifying trees. I found it especially useful since I wasn't familiar with any of the trees of Big Sur, none of which grow here in the Midwest. Coastal California has some magnificent species -- such as the Pacific Madrone, the California Laurel, and above all the Redwood -- and any visitor to the region who spends time outdoors will find this little book helpful.
A must-have for Scouts.......1999-04-27
I bought this book for each of my Cub Scouts and found that even 9-year olds can use it to identify the trees around them. There are step-by-step paths to identifying the tree by its leaves, bark, pinecones, etc. It is also very complete.
this tree finder is great and simple to use!.......1998-09-27
Inexpensive, portable, and easy to use. I've had students use other tree finders(dichotomus keys) in my courses, but with this one i've seen students have the most success.
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Make yourself at home in the desert!.......2005-04-08
I agree with everything the previous reviewer from Yorba Linda said, so I'll make this review short. I also carry this pocket-size book with me on all my desert hikes, and aside from being lightweight it also happens to be the most useful book I know of for quick and easy identification of desert trees (some of which look very similar to each other and would be hard to identify without a book like this). For example, on my last hike in northwest Arizona where I live, I was able to use this book to easily distinguish the canotia crucifixion-thorn from the other two common crucifixion-thorns and other similar-appearing trees such as the smokethorn. If you carry this little book around with you long enough, eventually all the desert trees will start seeming like old familiar friends. And you can't beat the price either!
You Can Be The Tree Expert!.......2000-10-02
This teriffic little book is paper, lightweight -- and can identify nearly every tree I threw at it! (Comon, we're talking about trees in the outdoors, not funny thinks they've imported at the nursery!)
Tree Finder is an expert system reduced to a simple booklet. Look at the leaf, find the picture on page zz, which asks a diagnostic question and directs you to one of several other pages, depending on the answer. In three or four page turns, you have a positive tree identification. Nifty! Hey, even fun!!
I bought Tree Finders for all my outdoor friends --they all loved it and now carry The Tree Book on hikes.
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Pocket-sized guide to identifying native trees of the Rockies and Great Basin, in the U.S. and Canada, from the plains to the alpine zone. Like all the plant guides in the Finders series, this book uses a key format that leads you through a series of choices to identify the plant by its leaves, needles, and other features. Explains life zones in the Rockies. Heavily illustrated with line drawings and range maps.
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Book Review.......2006-11-04
Simple concept, not a lot of detail, but for a pocket book appears to contain all of the essentials to accurately identify trees.
Great, practical, tiny and easy to use.......1998-09-01
This is a great little pocket guide to the native trees in the intermountain west. It uses a key system that asks you simple questions about the shape or size of different parts of the tree, and finally leads you to the species. It's great for someone like me with no experience.
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Tom Finder
Martine Leavitt
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ASIN: 0889952620
Release Date: 2003-04-21 |
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Winner of the Benjamin Franklin Award in the category of Juvenile-Young Adult Fiction!
Winner of the Mr. Christie's Book Award!
Shortlist for the 2004 Canadian Library Association Young Adult Canadian Book Award
This riveting story is about a fifteen-yearold boy who, as the story opens, realizes he has no idea who he is_beyond his first name_or what has led to his loss of memory. From the outset, he's on the run, a street kid thrust out on his own, living by his wits and involved in a quest to find another lost teenager whose First Nations father is desperate for news of his son. In the process, he learns to survive and begins to get a sense of his strengths and character.
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Great Magic Realism from a Canadian Gem.......2005-01-08
"Tom had forgotten who he was."
So opens Martine Leavitt's latest novel, Tom Finder, an enchanting departure from her successful fantasies for Young Adults. Tom Finder is a fifteen year-old who finds himself on the cold streets of Calgary. He knows little of his past, other than that it has some tenuous connection to Mozart's The Magic Flute, which is coming to the Calgary Opera House. Tom turns to his notebook and words to try and piece together his identity and the identity of his parents. He becomes convinced that the words and poetry that he writes possess a power to come true. Tom sets out to earn the money required to rent a large billboard in the downtown core of Calgary to advertise his search for his parents.
Sharing the brutal streets of the inner core of Calgary is Samuel Wolflegs. Like Tom, Samuel is searching for family; his son Daniel has left home and he has turned to drugs and crime. His father is convinced that he will soon die, and he is determined to stay on the streets, not eating, until he can reclaim his son. Samuel asks Tom to be a finder-to help him to locate his son. Tom accepts the task. That search provides one of many storylines that keep this novel a compelling read.
While on the streets, Tom makes allies and enemies. He is cheated out of his money, and he sets out to start a business in window washing. Tom evades Train Cops and gang members while continuing his journey of self-discovery.
Tom Finder is magical realism, a compelling mix of the cold realism of homelessness and street kids, and fantasy-seen in the power of Tom's words and the underlying Mozart opera. Leavitt weaves concepts like gravity, visibility and even spelling beautifully in the text. The reader shares with Tom the curiosity of determining the identity of his parents; an identity that Tom renders from the snippets of remembered words and phrases that emerge into his notebook. Tom's poetic notebook becomes the casebook in the mystery of his life. Drugs, crime, prostitution, illness, starvation, darkness and loneliness, while ever present in the novel, hover on the periphery of Tom's search.
Tom Finder will wrap you in its spell and keep you reading. Leavitt's prose is lyrical and thoughtful. Her characters are compelling, even though many are lost and incomplete. The novel comes to a climax as September comes and the production of The Magic Flute arrives at the Opera House. That production awakens in Tom time past. In a surprising ending, we learn Tom's true name, his history, and the beginnings of a future and Tom is faced with the decision as to which identity he will assume in his future.
Tom Finder has garnered many awards and nominations. It won the Mr. Christie Book Award for Young Adult Fiction (Canada) and garnered the Benjamin Franklin Award (USA).
wow.........2004-12-01
Tom finder is a book that is impossible to put down. It is probably one of the best books I have ever read!
A Canadian Quest novel.......2004-06-15
Reading "Tom Finder" made me think of the film "Memento", which was about a man with no short-term memory trying to track down his wife's killer. In the film, the protagonist is able to keep his purpose firmly in mind, but loses track of the day-to-day details around him. Tom is basically the opposite: he has no purpose (that he's immediately aware of), has no sense of who he was, but is able to build on his short-term memories quite well.
His present is so vivid and consuming that it becomes less an issue who he was, and more an issue who he's become.
I really liked the book. I think Martine Leavitt's writing reaches high, not content to just tell a simple story of amnesia. She imbues Tom with a wonderfully vibrant intellect; he's a kid whose own inner dialogue keeps him alive. The mysticism that Leavitt adds (in the form of Samuel Wolflegs) gives the novel a nice quality of spirituality. Wolflegs is both ethereal and earthbound, able to speak great words of wisdom, but unable to keep his son away from the evils of drink and drugs.
It's a quest novel, much like "The Lord of the Rings". However, it recognises that the modern knight, who seeks not a ring but himself, will come in a guise that will turn many away. In this case, a homeless street kid who eats garbage and smells like an alley. I loved the Mozart angle in the book as well, giving Tom the aspiration to overcome his "station" in life.
Well worth reading.
A strong and emotionally written "coming of age" story.......2003-08-12
Tom Finder by Martine Leavitt is a novel for young adults about Tom, a fifteen-year-old boy living on the streets. Unable to remember his past at first, Tom becomes gradually drawn into the mysteries of the life he left behind as he strives to help another lost teenager -- and determine the course of his life once and for all. Very highly recommended reading, Tom Finder is a strong and emotionally written "coming of age" story.
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Donald B. Lemke
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Electron Crystallography of Organic Molecules (NATO Science Series C:)
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When The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter was published in 1940, Carson McCullers was instantly recognized as one of the most promising writers of her generation. The novels that followed established her as a master of Southern Gothic.
"McCullers' gift," writes Joyce Carol Oates, "was to evoke, through an accumulation of images and musically repeated phrases, the singularity of experience, not to pass judgment on it." McCullers effortlessly conveyed the raw anguish of her characters and the weird beauty of their perceptions. Set in small Georgia towns that are at once precisely observed and mythically resonant, McCullers' novels explore the strange, sometimes grotesque inner lives of characters who are often marginal and misunderstood. Above all, McCullers possessed an unmatched ability to capture the bewilderment and fragile wonder of adolescence.
In The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, an enigmatic deaf-mute draws out the haunted confessions of an itinerant worker, a young girl, a black doctor, and the widowed owner of a small-town café. Two shorter works, Reflections in a Golden Eye (1941) and The Ballad of the Sad Café (1943), use melodramatic scenarios and freakish characters to explore the disfiguring violence of desire. The Member of the Wedding (1946), on which the play and film were based, tells of a young girl's fascination with her brother's wedding and is perhaps McCullers' most moving and accomplished novel. In Clock Without Hands (1960), the story of a terminally ill druggist, McCullers produces some of her most forceful and indignant social criticism.
Edited by Carlos Dews.
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The American Jane Austen?.......2003-12-24
I have read many novels by many writers, both American and foreign, but it's been a good long while since I've read something so penetrating and perceptive as Carson McCuller's first and last novels. The characters in the books, their lives and personalities, are so well thought-out and delineated that you have to wonder how a woman of 23 could put something like this together. Anyway, below is a synopsis of each story in this volume.
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is the longest of Carson McCullers' novels, and the first. She wrote it in the late `30s, and published it in 1940, when she was 23. It's an incredible first novel, and amazingly prescient and wise for someone of her age, era, and upbringing. The story revolves around a deaf mute, John Singer, who works engraving silverware in a small city in the South somewhere. He has only one friend in the world, another deaf mute who works for his cousin, making candy. As the story begins the candymaker (named Antanopolous) is committed to an asylum, and Singer moves from the home they shared, and slowly begins to acquire a circle of other friends. Principle in this circle are four people: Mick, the daughter of his landlords at the rooming house he lives in; Biff, who runs the diner where he takes his meals; Blount, another denizen of the diner, who wishes to unionize the local mill-workers; and Dr.Copeland, a black man who rages against the injustice of white society towards him and his race. The heart of the story is a character study of these five people, with alternating chapters following the one and then the other. Each is intelligent, in his or her own way, and each has special insights into the world around them. How these characters interact, and the relationships between them and the rest of the world, make the heart of the story and most of the book.
Reflections in a Golden Eye is a shorter story, one of McCullers' novels that is really more of a novella. The plot revolves around a love triangle that develops between two officers on an Army base, and the wife of one of them. There's also a strange, solitary, enigmatic private who tends the horses on the base, and he interacts with the other characters. Frankly, I didn't enjoy this story as much as The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. The characters weren't anywhere near as believable, and their motivations weren't as transparent or understandable. The ending was also somewhat predictable.
The Ballad of the Sad Café is the shortest of McCullers' novels or novellas, weighing in at 60 pages. It's the story of a strange, unpredictable relationship between the standoffish businesswoman who dominates the culture of a small town, and a dwarf hunchback who shows up one day claiming to be her long-lost nephew. How the two of them interact in the story is strange, to say the least, and not wholly explained in the story. This creates an enigmatic atmosphere, and as the story progresses and it becomes obvious we're not going to receive an explanation of things, you find yourself re-reading passages looking for clues as to motivations. I enjoyed this story much more than Reflections in a Golden Eye, perhaps almost as much as The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
The Member of the Wedding is perhaps McCullers' most strange work. The heart of the book is built around the fantastic intentions and beliefs of a twelve-year-old girl. In the first portion of the book, she's known as Frankie. Later, when she gets the idea she's going to leave with her older brother on his honeymoon, she changes her name to F. Jasmine, and the book follows that convention. Once it develops that she can't go with the brother and his new bride (you knew this was going to happen) she becomes Frances. There isn't much of a plot other than this girl fantasizing about all of the things she's going to be or do, and looking down her nose at all the common people who surround her, who she thinks are beneath her.
Clock Without Hands is the best of McCullers' books other than The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. I now wonder if the length of the books had something to do with whether I liked them or not. She seems to have been able, in the longer books, to build her characters more, and have more plot twists. Clock Without Hands is about a dying pharmacist in a small Georgia town, and the events surrounding his death, but it really turns out to be more about one of his acquaintances, a senile old judge who imagines himself a great leader of the opposition to the desegregation movement. The episodes of the Civil Rights movement, as McCullers recreates them, become at times farcical and silly, and the resistance to the movement altogether silly and irrational.
Library of America volumes are wonderful to hold and read, and this is no exception. The type is clear, the book handy to hold or slip into a pocket. Given McCullers' stature as a writer, I think I'm going to value this book for a good long while.
Magnificent McCullers.......2002-03-11
Carson McCullers, one of America's greatest Southern writers, was often misunderstood, as many people were put off by or unwilling to deal with her (at the time) controversial subject matter. MCCullers used the grotesque as exaggerated symbols of everyday experience. The loneliness and isolation of her gothic-like characters were merely extreme examples of feelings we all have, though magnified and intensified to the nth degree.
Tennessee Williams, in his introduction to MCCullers' "Reflections in a Golden Eye", posed the question (in a mock dialogue) most people asked about writers of the 'gothic' school such as Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor, Katherine Anne Porter and Eudora Welty: "Why do they write about such dreadful things?" Williams replies, " In my opinion it is most simply definable as a sense, an intuition of an underlying dreadfulness in modern society.. Why have they got to use..symbols of the grotesque and the violent? Because a book is short and a man's life is long... The awfulness has to be compressed."
McCullers, unlike any writer I have ever read, pierces the heart of themes such as love, isolation, and loneliness with her lucid, poetic prose. Tennessee Williams, in Virginia Spencer Carr's biography of McCullers summed up McCullers' writing as follows: "I have used the word 'heart', but it is not an adequate word to describe the core of Carson McCullers' genius....I believe, in fact I know, that there are many, many with heart who lack the need or gift to express it. And therefore Carson McCullers is what I would call a necessary writer: She owned the heart and the deep understanding of it, but in addition she had that 'tongue of angels' that gave her power to sing of it, to make of it an anthem."
The unique lady of the "South".......2001-10-20
Until very recently, it was quite difficult to find a nice hardback copy of Mc Culler's novels. Each one of them is absolutely priceless and unforgettable; believe me when I tell you that "The Ballad of the Sad Café" is one of those stories that long remain on your mind. Mc Culler's novels, clearly influenced by Faulkner, surpass the master himself in magnetism, , power of storytelling and above all, characterization. If you add to all this a dose of gothic dark strangely ambivalent sense of humour, the result is certainly a writer utterly impossible to classify, novels that you really enjoy reading and characters that you are very unlikely to forget. Besides I am fully in love with the Library of America hardback editions and Mc Cullers certainly deserves to be included in this collection.
Later, if you want to give yourself a treat, go and buy her autobiography, although unfinished, a memorable book.
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Set in Georgia on the eve of court-ordered integration, Clock Without Hands contains McCullers's most poignant statement on race, class, and justice. A small-town druggist dying of leukemia calls himself and his community to account in this tale of change and changelessness, of death and the death-in-life that is hate. It is a tale, as McCullers herself wrote, of "response and responsibility--of man toward his own livingness."
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Great, but Revelations are Confusing.......2004-12-23
Clock Without Hands is another fine example of McCullers' ability to quietly yet intensely probe into the mystery of the human psyche. Her work reminds me of Tennessee Williams at times. This novel deals with an old judge, his grandson and the presence of his dead son, a young Black man, and a pharmacist who is dying of leukemia. There is a revelation near the end of the story concerning the link between most of the characters, but it seems odd considering the Judge's personality and value systems. The last chapter, however, which concerns the pharmacist's worsening illness, is transcendant. An uneven McCullers tale is certainly better than none at all.
Conflicts and brutality as the Old South slowly dies.......2003-04-26
Written in 1953, this book explores the racial tensions in a small southern town. The winds of integration are in the air and the Old South is dying. The story is told through several characters. There's a pharmacist dying of leukemia who struggles with the diagnosis. There's a elderly judge who's a former congressman who really believes that the confederate money hoarded in his attic will some day bring him riches. There's the judge's grandson who sees changes coming. And then there's a young blue-eyed Negro who tries to be accepted.
Carson McCullers is a master of setting the stage for this disturbing tale which is certainly not comfortable to read. Each of the characters is exaggerated but that is her intent. She lays out the conflict with surgical precision and creates a world that doesn't exist any more. It's a brutal world and all the sugar coated Southern niceties just don't help. There's violence in the air. I felt it coming throughout and hoped it wouldn't happen. But the conclusion is inevitable.
Fine book. Fine writing. Recommended.
interesting story choked by unrealistic characters.........2000-10-09
Unlike previous reviewers, I was not terribly impressed with Clock Without Hands. While obviously Carson McCullers wanted to make a rather emotional, dramatic statement regarding racism in a changing 1950s Georgia, I believe she "over-egged the pudding". The story itself is about a small town in Georgia where several related characters, centered on a elderly judge, struggles with the pace of change with regards to racial equality. While the interactions and complications between the characters are interesting and, at times, quite moving, I felt the basic premise of the story was compromised by two-dimensional racial stereotypes. I thought the young protaganist, a blue-eyed negro, was in particular very poorly developed.
However Clock Without Hands does not discourage me from exploring further works from Ms. McCullers. I was particularly impressed by the amazing Reflections in a Golden Eye, which I strongly recommend over Clock Without Hands for those uninitiated with her work.
Good...definately good...reads fast and good..........1999-11-30
Geez...what can I say about this book? Well...I could start by saying that is was an excellent novel. Being 16 years old and all, this book really explained to me how some of the old southerners thought. They still had pride in the "old south" and it fascinated me that the old judge wanted Confederate money to be made redeemable into US dollars. I just could believe it. It portrayed racist, economic, and political issues in a very believable way. It was, all in all, emotional and it really had every emotion contained within it. At times it was funny. At times is was serious. Sometimes it was happy. Sometimes it was sad. It really gets you going once you read the first 10 pages. I liked it very much and do recommend it to everyone -- regardless of age.
This is my favorite book by Carson McCullers........1998-07-28
Not as well known as "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter", this is a beautiful story about small town politics and emotions in the South. McCullers has a talent for describing the dark side of humanity, what drives us and why. Emotions run high in this book where conservative judge, African-American piano player, local pharmacist, and others are connected to one another by unusual ties. It is a difficult book to find, highly recommended.
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A Clock Without Hands
Guy Burt
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“I want to turn back the hands on the clock and change it all, make it different; three friends who meet up by chance in an old city and share a beer and laugh at old stories and jokes. But it wasn’t like that; and the clock has no hands, so I can’t turn them back.” [p.171]
Alex Carlise has returned to a place he thought he’d never see again, outside of his dreams. As he walks the ochre-dusted road to the house in which he grew up, the memories of his young life in a small Italian town push all other thoughts out of his head: thoughts about the major exhibition of his artwork opening soon in London, thoughts of the myriad things he should be doing in preparation–everything subsides to make room for the warm flood of a time long past.
When he opens the door to the now-deserted house, he is suddenly seven again. There is Jamie, his first friend, his best friend; Anna, his first love; and the delicious days they spent exploring the valley and swimming in the cerulean blue Mediterranean Sea. It all comes back to Alex in a way he can neither control nor discern. But the memories are insistent, demanding. Soon Alex loses entire hours to the past, overwhelmed by the haunting memories of a youth turned tragic.
Alex remembers the day he, Jamie, and Anna went to their favorite place, an abandoned church far up in the hills. There they stumbled upon a man, injured and sick. From this discovery, a series of events tumbled forth that would change them all forever. Alex now realizes that he must confront the truth about himself, about the echoes of the past that still haunt him, and about the friends whose legacy has meant only devastation.
Guy Burt’s vision of youth is piercingly accurate, and his sense of how time can play tricks on the mind is startling. Haunting, eerie, and remarkably assured, The Clock Without Hands will resonate with the child that hides inside your own memories.
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See What's Become of Me.......2005-12-11
After a death in the family, Alex has returned to his childhood home, which prompts him to re-live the events in his life in which he has purposefully chosen to forget. Throughout the novel, he seeks to understand how the events of one summer could change his life forever.
The majority of the novel takes place in Alex's childhood, where he and his best friends Anna and Jamie stumble upon "the hermit" in a deserted chapel. The hermit is a mystery- he is critially wounded yet pleads that the children don't seek help for his injuries. Instead, the three friends take it upon themselves to care for the hermit for the duration of that summer. The secret kept among Alex, Jamie, and Anna forms an unbreakable bond, yet they soon realize that knowing the true nature of the hermit may haunt them for the rest of their lives.
As you follow the three friends into their teenage and adult lives, Alex struggles to keep their friendship strong, not fully understanding the consequences of that summer's events. It is only in retrospect that Alex begins to realize how fluid time is- how things sometimes cannot be fully understood until it's too late to change them.
Guy Burt has written the novel in a style which reflects the scattered memories of the narrator, which lends credibility to the emotional impact of the story. Although some plot lines where somewhat predictable, there were other events in the novel which were completely shocking. I was touched by this novel, and I would strongly recommend this book.
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Anatoly-Clock Without Hands
Stephan A. George
Manufacturer: Writers Club Press
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This book leads the reader through lessons of life as experience by the main character, Anatoly Glass. We can all recall our worst and best moments in life and how we rose to the occassion or fell before it. Anatoly Glass has been given insurmountable odds and still he perseveres; a product of a hideous Nazi experiment during World War II, he turned his misfortune into saving the world from man- made disasters while at the same time finding those who had wronged him and having his revenge. Anatoly- Clock Withour Hands is the sequel to Anatoly- Anatoly the Adventure Continues. Anatoly Glass and the 'inner circle' pursue new missions and projects traveling to exotic countries.
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CLOCK WITHOUT HANDS
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
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