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Peter Carey tells you how people look, think and feel-all in total disharmony with themselves and with other people, how each trait and person keeps changing and is completely unreliable, except marginals. Some descriptions of the mind work take my breath away with their accuracy.
Finished it, and now I want more peter Carey!
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The stories in this book are so original they surprise with their appeal to both humor and heart. The author creates impossible worlds where people have to find their way to others in new ways of communication. The collection is pleasantly varied in styles and characters, and yet it creates a harmony.
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This book deals with a painful question. what right do a sick child's parents have to have another baby to save their first? The book deals with it from all points of view without letting the reader relax into one of them.
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Avital Gad Cykman has commented on (3) products.
Bliss by Peter Carey
Avital Gad Cykman, September 19, 2007
Peter Carey tells you how people look, think and feel-all in total disharmony with themselves and with other people, how each trait and person keeps changing and is completely unreliable, except marginals. Some descriptions of the mind work take my breath away with their accuracy.Finished it, and now I want more peter Carey!
(2 of 4 readers found this comment helpful)
Men and Cartoons by Jonathan Lethem
Avital Gad Cykman, January 14, 2007
The stories in this book are so original they surprise with their appeal to both humor and heart. The author creates impossible worlds where people have to find their way to others in new ways of communication. The collection is pleasantly varied in styles and characters, and yet it creates a harmony.(10 of 14 readers found this comment helpful)
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Avital Gad Cykman, January 14, 2007
This book deals with a painful question. what right do a sick child's parents have to have another baby to save their first? The book deals with it from all points of view without letting the reader relax into one of them.(6 of 9 readers found this comment helpful)