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Rent Blue Shoe
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Narrator: Laural Merlington
Format: Unabridged-CD, Paperback
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: Sep 2002
Genre: Fiction - General
Retail Price: $38.95
Discs: 8
Synopsis
Mattie Ryder is a marvelously funny, well-intentioned, religious, sarcastic, tender, angry, and broke recently divorced mother of two young children. Then she finds a small rubber blue shoe - the kind you might get from a gumball machine - and a few other trifles that were left years ago in her father's car. They seem to hold the secrets to her messy uringing, and as she and her brother follow these clues to uncover the mystery of their past, she begins to open her heart to her difficult, brittle mother and the father she thought she knew. And with that acceptance comes an opening up to the possibilities of romantic love. In a disarming blend of everyday life and the sublime, of reverence and irreverence, and of humor and grace, Anne Lamott speaks directly to our most closely held concerns, bringing comfort to anyone - all of us - whose family life can feel overwhelming and uncontainable.
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Reviews
I had just read Anne Lamott's 'Bird by Bird,' her nonfiction guide on writing and fell in love with her wit, her style, her humor, her voice. 'Blue Shoe' was the first of her novels I've read and I couldn't help but be disappointed. The characters seemed flat and removed. The narrative is jumpy--sometimes dwelling on one incident for pages and pages and other times leaping through months in a paragraph. With much chagrin, I finally gave up on it...