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| 80% Recommended by our customers. Publisher: Anchor Catalog: Book Release date: 2003-05-13 Media: Paperback Number of pages: 288 Ean: 9781400033348 Book Isbn: 1400033349  Tip: compare prices with similar booksAuthor:
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Using small-town life as a springboard to explore the loftiest of ideas, Haven Kimmel’s irresistibly smart and generous first novel is at once a romance and a haunting meditation on grief and faith. Langston Braverman returns to Haddington, Indiana (pop. 3,062) after walking out on an academic career that has equipped her for little but lording it over other people. Amos Townsend is trying to minister to a congregation that would prefer simple affirmations to his esoteric brand of theology. What draws these difficult—if not impossible—people together are two wounded little girls who call themselves Immaculata and Epiphany. They are the daughters of Langston’s childhood friend and the witnesses to her murder. And their need for love is so urgent that neither Langston nor Amos can resist it, though they do their best to resist each other. Deftly walking the tightrope between tragedy and comedy, The Solace of Leaving Early is a joyous story about finding one’s better self through accepting the shortcomings of others. |
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Written on November 2, 2007 Summary: Charming! I loved this little book. In the back Kimmel says that it's really a book about ideas, but thank goodness all of the academic philosophies which you have to wade through in the reading were summed up in the preface as "a fool's thoughts". The plot bore that out--you don't have to subscribe or even care about them to see how they crumble to dust under the weight of things that are real. The title is deliciously ironic: the solace of leaving early is the comfortable habit of both protagonists, and you get to see how, in the end, there's something mercifully more compelling than the promised solace of insulating yourself from relationships.  Written on October 30, 2007 Summary: The solace of finishing something dull I wholeheartedly agree with Bruce's and Customer's reviews. The book is painfully dull with unbelievable dialogue, especially between the protagonist and the girls. The Marian apparitions didn't even have that much to do with the story. It was mostly about the protagonist's unhappiness with small-town life We learn that she had an affair with a cad whilst at graduate school. She walked out of her exams because she couldn't stand to see the cad with his new woman, married and pregnant. It took me forever to finish this book. Do yourself a favor and skip this book. You're not missing much!  Written on May 1, 2007 Summary: Lifetime TV Movie In Print I picked up this book on the recommendation of a friend that described it as "reading like a poem." While the language and flow of the book were easy to follow and smooth, the plot was extremely weak. The whole thing reads like a Lifetime Movie and has all the hallmarks of such a movie: Troubled girl leaves school Small-town murder/suicide leaves orphaned children Lonely pastor Lonely pastor spars with troubled girl over care of orphaned children Lonely pastor and troubled girl are left as guardians of orphaned children, fall in love, get married, raise orphaned children. Sadly it has turned me off of Kimmel. I won't be reading anything else by her.  Written on March 14, 2007 Summary: The Solace of Leaving Early This novel was one of the best I've ever read. Having Haven come into one of my classes was amazing. She is very funny and talented. I would recommend this book to anyone, and if you get a chance to hear Haven speak, do it. Written on January 21, 2007 Summary: Go back to the drawing board, Ms. Kimmel! This book is in such stark contrast to Haven Kimmel's delightful novel "A Girl Named Zippy" that I am finding it a chore to get through it. I am still not through it, but I think that I may have to say enough is enough and move on to a more rewarding piece of literature. I loved "A Girl Named Zippy" - the simplicity, the elegance of the sparseness of her words, Ms. Kimmel's humorous recollections of her childhood and life in a small town. This novel also takes place in a small town, but it's as if Ms. Kimmel is saying "I'm grown up now, so my first novel will be in a grown-up style" with lots of references to philosophers, religion, heavy literature, etc. Please Ms. Kimmel, go back to your roots and draw from what works for you - understatement. |
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| Catalog | Book | Book | Book | Book | Book | Book |
| Release date | 2003-05-13 | 2002-09-03 | 2007-02-13 | 2005-03-22 | 2008-06-03 | 2003-09-22 |
| Media | Paperback | Paperback | Paperback | Paperback | Paperback | Hardcover |
| Number of pages | 288 | 282 | 336 | 288 | 352 | 32 |
| Ean | 9781400033348 | 9780767915052 | 9780743285001 | 9780743247771 | 9780743247795 | 9780618159550 |
| Book Isbn | 1400033349 | 0767915054 | 074328500X | 0743247779 | 0743247795 | 061815955X |
| Upc | - | - | - | - | - | 046442159555 |
| Reading level | - | - | - | - | - | Ages 4-8 |
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