- Paperback: 204 pages
- Publisher: WESSEX COLLECTIVE, NL (2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0979751632
- ISBN-13: 978-0979751639
- Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 13.7 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 272 g
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A fine pick for fiction fans looking for a laugh, April 4 2009
By Midwest Book Review - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: AMALIE IN ORBIT (Paperback)
Some people take tragedy as life destroying, some take it to reinvent themselves. "Amalie in Orbit" follows Amalie Price as she finds herself widowed at forty. Forced to join the mainstream workforce, her adventures in this avenue are by no means boring as she deals with conflicts with her children and an array of entertaining and excellent characters throughout. "Amalie in Orbit" is a fine pick for fiction fans looking for a laugh, executing its intent well.
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a rollicking antidote to our hard times, Mar 20 2009
By Marnie Mueller - Published on Amazon.com
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Though I was too busy to read this book when it arrived, I made the mistake of peeking in. I was hooked; I could not put it down. I lost a day of work. Kirchheimer is a stunning humorist, subtle, sly, and destabalizing, her canvas a chiaroscuro of laughter and outrage. Throughout this page-turner of a novel, she continually caught me by surprise with slight-of-hand, hilarious observations set against dark truths of grief, economic plight, social action, and parenting. The story, told masterfully from multiple points-of-view (each character leaps off the page,)arcs like a comet to a totally satisfying resolution. Set in 1980's Manhattan, at a time when "little guys" were at the mercy of developers and unscrupulous landlords, it's a cautionary tale for our current predicament. So buy this book and treat yourself to a rollicking antidote to our hard times!
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orbits, circles, revolutions, Mar 15 2009
By Peter Albertson "xxxxxxx" - Published on Amazon.com
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Amalie (an extremely smart, highly-educated, quite attractive, 40-year-old woman, who earns a meager living as a translator of French porn comics for the English-speaking market) finds herself a new widow, her husband having been killed in an automobile crash, quite possibly with his lover aboard. And she becomes, of necessity, the lead person in her New York apartment house responsible for taking on the landlord who wants to force the tenants out so he can make millions on the old, falling apart building. So that fight and a big city-wide tenants' demonstration becomes the centerpiece of this wonderful book. But that is deceptive. The real centerpiece is Amalie, who is in orbit around the building, its tenants--one of whom is a sexy old man--a search for a better-paying job while facing off hateful interviewers, finally a new job with a Nazi-like manager, and a sexy boss who drives a Jaguar that disappears in a river, incoming information about her possibly, no probably philandering--but charming--late husband, hundreds of praying mantises hatching in her teen-age son's bedroom, a bloody butcher who is not sexy but wants to put the make on her, her angry but loving son who gets himself arrested for obstructing traffic at a political demonstration, and a crowded lot of other people, events, and circumstances that are nothing if not truly entertaining.The truth is, I loved Amalie in Orbit. A few minor quibbles, perhaps, but it held me (obviously) quite enthralled. It may interest the reader of this review (it did me) that I suddenly startled myself more than once when I was at some sad occurrence, or when Amalie is angry, and again when she suspects what her darling husband had done, and many other times, I realized that I was smiling. Kirchheimer manages to do what may be one of the hardest things for a writer to do, and that is to overlay everything with a kind of humor that absorbs the bitterness, the lemon juice, and turns it into a real pleasure to taste, without diluting the message, the reality, and the true-to-life content.
That said, let nobody think this is a Pollyanna book. It most definitely is not. It is a very good book, with a lot to say about where we as human beings and as Americans are today. But most of all, Amalie in Orbit is a joy to read.
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