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Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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- Sherri Cutler, Brennemann Lib. , Children's Memorial Medical Ctr. , Chicago
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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They traveled the roads and byways of the West, unhurriedly and with no set itinerary, changing their route according to the whim of the moment, the premonitory sign of a flock of birds, the lure of an unknown name. Read the first page
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The Infinite Plan,
By winkee5000 "winkee5000" (Vancouver, BC CANADA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Infinite Plan (Paperback)
This is the first Isabel Allende book I've read, and it certainly won't be the last. The story is absorbing and the characters are so interesting.
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My Adventure into The Infinite Plan,
By Carlos Guzman (Taipei, Taiwan) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Infinite Plan (Paperback)
It all started a hot summer day here in Taipei. My brother was here on vacation, before he went off to university. I noticed that he wouldnï¿t come out of his room for hours while I played on the computer, or watched TV. It was nine pm and he came out of the room with a smile on his face and he held out a book to me. He said" you have to read it!" with excitement. After a couple days he went off to university and I was left alone. I really hadnï¿t payed much attention to the book, but one day I put my mind to it and started reading it. I discovered that the book never stoped unraviling surprises. It was practically impossible to stop reading in middle of a chapter, I had to know what would happen next. I was surprised how the book always had surprises.It was an emotion I had never felt before, reading a book. A sensation that you dont get by reading any other book. This is a book that shows you reality and how real life is, not just some wonderland. Its fiction, history, andventure, sexuality, and other subjects in one book. I'd read for hours until my body was exhausted. When I finished the book I was a little sad because I didnt know what would happen next. I have to say this is the best book I've read in my young life, and probably not the last book I read from this author: Isabel Allende. Id recommend this book to everyone who loves reading.
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Gringo manchild,
By Mary E. Sibley (Carneys Point, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Infinite Plan (Paperback)
The infinite plan which Charles Reeves administered left no room for doubts. Life stories repeat themselves over and over with few variations Olga, the midwife, healer, and fortune teller, learned. The family consisted of Charles, husband and father, and doctor in divine sciences, his wife Nora, and the children, Gregory and Judy Reeves, and friend and courtesy aunt Olga. Charles Reeves was a man ahead of his time. About a year after Hiroshima--Hiroshima caused Nora to lose faith in humanity--Charles was hospitalized for stomach cancer and the family camped in Los Angeles with the hospitable Morales family, Mexicans. Judy and Gregory were taught Spanish by the Morales children, and for the first time attended school. When Charles was released from the hospital, the Reeves family bought a small shack at the edge of the barrio. The priest taught Gregory to box and in turn he had to serve as an altar boy. Olga moved to a place of her own.Charles's death disrupted the family and since Nora's habit of dependence was deeply rooted she began to live in a daze. Both children thought of her indolence as a sickness of the spirit. The Morales house became Gregory's true home. When Gregory left the city thirteen years later, he was homesick for the Morales family. He was a shoeshine boy and a rabid movie watcher. Gregory started to steal and his mother unsuccessfully tried to place him in an orphanage and in an adoptive home to save him from a life of crime. Then she said to him to just grow up. He was raped by a gang leader. He and Carmen Morales developed an act of juggling, playing the harmonica, and tricks by his pet dog. The more posh the setting, the greater the rewards for the troupe. Gregory had been encouraged by his father to pursue education. He did well in high school. He developed a friendship with an employee at the public library who could direct his reading. The gang leader died in a contest with him called race the train. This defeat of Martinez traveled around the school and bolstered Gregory's reputation. Following high school, Gregory held a number of menial and factory jobs. On one he injured his leg. The man from the library died and gave him eight hundred dollars to go to college. He went to Berkeley. As a result of his upbringing he had a chicano accent. He went to law school in San Francisco. Before completing his legal studies he married and the couple had a daughter. They separated, however, and just after he took his bar exams he left for service in the army. Reeves saved the lives of eleven men. In the middle of a combat zone he taught villagers English. He was sick and was sent to Hawaii for tests. Gregory returned home from the war around the same time his childhood friend Carmen Morales moved to Berkeley. Carmen worked for two of Gregory's friends at a restaurant. Gregory was intimicated by the idea of seeing Carmen again. He confessed to her his desire to become a wealthy and successful lawyer. Carmen Morales adopted her dead brother's half Vietnamese son. Gregory remarried. His sister found happiness with her third husband and her children. Gregory separated from his wife and attained custody by default of his difficult four year old son David. After substantial turmoil a housekeeper settles the son. Gregory is nearly upturned by a malpractice claim, but his friend Carmen Morales who has become a successful business person rescues him This is a superb book. A South American writer writes about a North American and can stake her claim as a world writer.
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