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Original Title: | A Fine and Private Place |
ISBN: | 0451450965 (ISBN13: 9780451450968) |
Edition Language: | English |
Setting: | New York City, New York(United States) |
Peter S. Beagle
Paperback | Pages: 304 pages Rating: 3.99 | 3480 Users | 359 Reviews
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This classic tale from the author of The Last Unicorn is a journey between the realms of the living and the dead, and a testament to the eternal power of love. Michael Morgan was not ready to die, but his funeral was carried out just the same. Trapped in the dark limbo between life and death as a ghost, he searches for an escape. Instead, he discovers the beautiful Laura...and a love stronger than the boundaries of the grave and the spirit world.Point Appertaining To Books A Fine and Private Place
Title | : | A Fine and Private Place |
Author | : | Peter S. Beagle |
Book Format | : | Paperback |
Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 304 pages |
Published | : | May 5th 1992 by Roc (first published 1960) |
Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Paranormal. Ghosts. Romance. Classics |
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This is a contemplative book about life, love, and death that follows the interactions between people, ghosts, and a talking raven in a cemetery. I have rather mixed feelings about this book. There is a whole lot of introspective dialogue going on, particularly in the conversations between two ghosts who contemplate who they were when they were living and what it all means to them now that they are dead. It gets very annoying at times, yet some things hit me on such a personal level that I wouldOne of the most beautiful books I've ever read! It has a way of being fantasy and literature all at the same time. The characters are few and carefully drawn. You know them; they're real to you; you become part of this little group that lives in the cemetery and contemplates, in death, what should have been answered while living, except we were too busy to think of it. It has that feel. I look forward to returning to this book. It strikes me as one of those works that changes significantly as
A Fine and Private Place: A gentle tale of love, death, and lost soulsOriginally posted at Fantasy LiteraturePeter S. Beagle is a well-known author of many fantasy novels, including the classic The Last Unicorn. However, I dont often hear mention of his debut novel, A Fine and Private Place (1960), written when he was only 19 years old. Given his age its a phenomenal achievement the prose is polished, filled with pathos and humor, and the characters relationships are deftly described. And yet I
I should have loved this when I was Laura's age, or maybe even as a teen, romantic and idealistic and all. But I wasn't really into this kind of stuff then. Now that I'm older than Klapper, I can appreciate the charm and the poetry and the themes better. The raven almost steals the show imo. And I like that in another language the title is "Hey Rebeck!"btw, I did not actually read the edition shown so I have no idea whether I read the complete or definitive edition. It seemed fine. Anyway, I
Book 2 of the Great Beagle Reread.Disclaimer: This is going to be an un-apologetically emotional review, because I do not have thoughts about this book, only feelings.This is Beagle's first published work, it came out when he was 19, which is utterly depressing. Reading this is a bit like watching a toddler pick up a violin and play Mozart.I wasn't even 19 when I first read it, and it floored me. Now, rather more years later than I'd like to admit, it has exactly the same effect. You'd think
2 1/2 starsIt's impressive that Peter Beagle wrote his first novel at the age of nineteen. I'm sorry to say the story doesn't add up to much. He would have done well to indulge more in whimsy and skip the philosophical ramblings. I've read his sweet novel, The Last Unicorn, as well as his picaresque nonfiction book, I See By My Outfit. He has a special gift for the whimsical, and I'm glad he found his strength and stayed true to it in his later books. In this book I liked the talking raven best
There are no happy endings, because nothing ever ends. That (admittedly paraphrased) quote pretty much encapsulates the book, which is sometimes sweetly cynical, and always bittersweetly romantic. Prose that is poetic, with its beautiful and sometimes stark similes and metaphors, without being florid or cloying, and it shocked me how modern it could sound, in its ideas and its love for the city in which it takes place (there were a few tell-tale signs, like talk of the El and the fact that
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