- Paperback: 407 pages
- Publisher: Cormorant Books (Feb 5 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1896951309
- ISBN-13: 978-1896951300
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,200,065 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Book Description
Told though the eyes of three women from three generations, this lyrical tale of loyalty and isolation covers more than one hundred years of the Lewis family. Purple for Sky from author Carol Bruneau is set in Nova Scotia, and weaves the lives of the religious, shop-keeping clan together as they cope with husbands, lovers, locals and family secrets. After a lifetime of submission, Lindy discovers a secret that threatens the loyalty that she has always held so high, the loyalty that keeps her family so close together. She is now forced to decide between what she has always thought and an uncertain future. This tale is so subtly written and with such character development one cannot help but feel completely at ease with the characters even though they are experiencing enormous transformations.
From the Publisher
Winner of the Dartmouth Book Award of Fiction and the Thomas H. Raddall Atlantic Fiction Prize, Carol Bruneau's debut novel is a stirring story following the lives of three generations of women - Effie, Ruby and Lucinda - in Nova Scotia.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Hard to Engage, Dec 23 2010
By LH422 - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Purple For Sky (Paperback)
This family saga follows three generations of women in a deeply religious family in a rural corner of Canada. Lindy, her aunt Ruby, and grandmother Euphemia have spent their lives at the mercies of the religious sensibilities of their family's men. The men of the Lewis family are deeply devoted to a fire-hot, low-church, dissenting faith. Particularly pious is Euphemia's husband, Silas, and his mother, Tryphena. Their faith fundamentally shapes Euphemia's marriage, and the consequences reverberate through the lives of successive generations.The story is told primarily through the eyes of Lindy, aging and single, her life consists of caring for the family store and her Aunt Ruby, who is succumbing to dementia. Readers also hear from Ruby, as she reminisces, and Euphemia, when Lindy uncovers her grandmother's diary. I would have preferred to hear more from Ruby and Euphemia, as I found their narratives to be much more interesting than Lindy's. This was a book that was slow to get going, and I was never able to get invested in Lindy. Bruneau has written Lindy in a particularly folksy style, one that I was not able to engage.
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