|
|
|
|
||
|
HELP | |
|
  $4.95 List price:
Used Trade Paper
Ships in 1 to 3 days
More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:The Colourby Rose Tremain
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Newlyweds Joseph and Harriet Blackstone emigrate from England to New Zealand, along with Joseph's mother Lilian, in search of new beginnings and prosperity. But the harsh land near Christchurch where they settle threatens to destroy them almost before they begin. When Joseph finds gold in a creek bed, he hides the discovery from both his wife and mother, and becomes obsessed with the riches awaiting him deep in the earth. Abandoning his farm and family, he sets off alone for the new goldfields over the Southern Alps, a moral wilderness where many others, under the seductive dreams of the "colour," rush to their destinies and doom. Review:"In this novel that so skillfully makes use of the formulas of melodrama only to discard them and surprise us, Tremain's singular combination of the passionate and the sardonic strikes one as a marriage of, say, Emily Brontë and Paul Bowles. THE COLOUR is smart, lumpy with sentiment, brutal and oddly funny — a sort of carnival in hell." John Vernon, New York Times Book Review Review:"The novel is colorful and often exciting, but allegory chews at story, insistently and sometimes noisily.... Ms. Tremain's literary hallmark [is] to set up the romantically extravagant and curb it with the idiosyncratically human." Richard Eder, New York Times Review:"The Colour has been meticulously researched, but Tremain's real concern is with the world outside of the time and place in which it is set.... It could be said that a sense of the real...is lost in the creation of what is essentially a metaphysical work of fiction. But the characters Rose Tremain has created are credible and vivid, and the narrative sustained and controlled, and these are the strengths of this complex, engrossing and intelligent novel." Margaret Stead, Times Literary Supplement Review:"[A] gripping pioneer story.... [A] page-turner that's also a work of startling beauty." Kirkus Review:"Every bit as enthralling as any of her previous work.... The Colour is a beautifully written novel that teems with life on every page." The Boston Globe Review:"Writing at the top of her form.... With its combination of vivid historical adventure and sensual, late-blooming romance, it's hard to see how this novel can miss winning a new audience for the immensely talented Tremain." Publishers Weekly Review:"Fully rounded human beings and a nimble prose style.... Peerless imagination." Newsday About the AuthorRose Tremain is the author of nine novels, most recently Music & Silence, and her work has been translated into fourteen languages. She lives in Norfolk, England, with the biographer Richard Holmes. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
Average customer rating based on 1 comment: | |||||||||
|
| ||||||||||
|
||||||||||
Don't Miss
