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The Road Home by: Rose Tremain List Price: £7.99 Healthy Living Books Price: £4.79 You Save: £3.20 (40%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780099478461 ISBN: 0099478463 Label: Vintage Manufacturer: Vintage Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: June 12, 2008 Publisher: Vintage Studio: Vintage Sales Rank: 34 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - My favourite read of the yearThere are some writers who just create seamless prose that reads like it's always been there on the page and they just traced over the words. Well, for me, this was one of those books. I loved it from beginning to end. It tells the story of Lev, an "economic migrant" from the East, and his search for work, and life. It is probably a little too rose tinted to be real, and I doubt there are many migrants so lucky as Lev, but I so wanted him to succeed. Rating: - Ok it's a fairy tale but a life affirming oneIn language serious, studied, courtly and old-fashioned RT takes us straight into the mind of our melancholy hero Lev - not Olev - cleverly written, carefully researched and up to the minute subject. Through a haze of cigarettes, the smoking of each one has to be respectfully described, swigs of his darling vodka lisch, all vital to him despite the poverty of his circumstances. Christy and Rudi also sharing his crutches of nicotine and alcohol until they learn that they live more happily without ... Read More: Rating:  - Rose Tremain does it againThis is a wonderful novel. I always enjoy Rose Tremain, and The Road Home is certainly one of my favourites. It's fabulously written, as ever, and Lev is a sympathetic hero, though she certainly doesn't hide his faults. His flashes of anger, culminating in the book's most brutal scene, are convincingly built up - and his treatment of long-suffering Lydia is pretty shoddy. I agree that there's the odd stereotype among the characters, but I most certainly do not share the view that this story ... Read More: Rating: - A mirror through which to view a 'Green and pleasant land'.I enjoyed this book, which isn't surprising considering it was written by Rose Tremain. As usual the prose, construction, attention to detail, plot progression and pace were brilliant: I'm certain Rose Tremain could write a novel about a matchbox and it would be riveting and informative. For me, Lev, the central character is in essence a mirror that Tremain holds up for us to see the England we'd maybe rather ignore or forget: the pretentious garbage of celebrity and affluence; the coldness and ... Read More: Rating:  - Beautifully written but predictable taleFascinating to read so many rave reviews. I read this on a very long train journey and if I hadn't been stuck there would probably have abandoned it. Rose Tremain has a wonderful prose style and she organizes her plots really well with lots of development, but the novel didn't grip me at all. Characters were boring, situations obvious (mobile phone going off during concert, stereotypical rich/poor London, even more stereotypical run-down anonymous ex-eastern bloc country etc), the ending warm & cosy. ... Read More: |
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