- Hardcover: 300 pages
- Publisher: Cormorant Books Inc (July 4 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1897151381
- ISBN-13: 978-1897151389
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #464,367 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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How do you make God laugh? Tell him your plans. Globe-trotting photojournalist Angela Thomas has spent all thirty-two years of her life dreaming of far-off places. Nothing that has happened to her thus far -- the dysfunction of her family, the failure of her marriage -- can convince her that "home" is where she belongs. Though she wont admit it, her job is as much an escape as it is a passion. Every foreign assignment is a chance to trade gnawing family conflicts in for situations that may kill her but wont break her heart. Everything changes when Angela is sent to cover the war in Yugoslavia. She has survived strife and destruction before, but this time is different; this time, the people around her refuse to remain at arms length, filtered by a camera lens. Through the unexpected attachments she makes, Angelas eyes are finally opened to a view that casts her old life and her old problems in a completely different light.
About the Author
Jeffrey Round is an author and playwright from Toronto. He has worked as a television producer and writer for the CBC and Alliance Atlantis. He has a BA in English Literature and Theatre from Dalhousie, has attended the Humber School for Writers, and has studied Film and Television at Ryerson University. He lives in Toronto.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A New Book from Jeffrey Round,
This review is from: The Honey Locust (Hardcover)
Round's elegant use of the English language is stunning and his balance of human tragedy and desire set against the background of the Bosnian war is amazing. Rarely have I read a book that is written with such passion and brutal honesty. Redemption for Angela (the protagonist) comes in the form of intimacy and we rejoice as she finds it. Here is another book by Jeffrey Round that does not mince words and heads directly for the emotions. I am touched by it as I am sure others will be.
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A fascinating piece of prose,
By Carlos T. Mock "carloschicago" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Honey Locust (Hardcover)
The Honey Locust is a fascinating piece of prose where two worlds are created. One involves the dysfunctional lives of the Thomas family, and the other one, is the one created by the older sibling from that marriage, Angela, to escape her family world.
Abbie and Conrad Thomas married and had three daughters, Angela, Margaret and Victoria (Torie). Their mother, Abbie, made the family life very uncomfortable for her three daughters, so each is searching for an escape. Angela is a photojournalist and immerses in her work to escape a failing marriage and lack of love for her family, thus hiding inside world conflicts where her life is constantly at peril: The siege of Malta, the Balkan War... Margaret married her high school sweetheart, BJ, who makes her feel uncomfortable because he is a second rate comic and can barely pay the mortgage. Victoria, the youngest, escapes by trying to have sexual liaisons, including an affair with her brother in law. Meanwhile, Abbie tortures their daughters once/year at their Summer cottage in Lion's Head, Bruce Peninsula a few hours from Toronto, where plants, gardening, and domestic life are used to hide the inadequacy of their family life: where three Honey Locusts were planted after the birth of each daughter, and where family problems are dealt with another meal being prepared of the trees being pruned. Mr. Round's novel, thus takes the reader through both of these worlds until they collide in the end with Conrad's death--where Angela discovers that all the running and hiding will not protect her from the ultimate truth of her origins. |
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