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The New York Times Book Review

Shapely and moving enough to make you believe, while you are reading it, in ancient forms and permanent truths. This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Chicago Sun-Times

There is enough of life here for several novels....Along the way we are touched, we are moved. Worth the trip. This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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5.0�toiles sur 5 You can tell a literary great..., Avril 15 2004

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This review is from: NICKEL MOUNTAIN (Hardcover)

Seems you can tell a literary masterpiece by its LACK of mainstream pop culture reviews. Only 7 reviews for such a great piece of work? (that tells more about the readers, not the author)

Like another reviewer, my worthy reading experience with Art of Fiction led me to read Gardner's earlier works. In some places he fulfills his own advice by writing NOT in an absolute vacuum of "novel rules" but by writing a piece to be judged by its own structure and prose inventions. Nickel Mountain achieves his assertion that "art has no universal rules because each true artist melts down and reforges all past aesthetic law." Of course, the artist must live up to his promises. In Nickel Mountain, Gardner delivers.

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5.0�toiles sur 5 Shameful, Juil 14 2001

Par	"calico30" (Katy Texas) - Voir tous mes commentaires

It's a shame. My first taste of John Gardner's splendid craft was in the form of a rather slipshod excerpt of Grendel in my British Lit book, attendant to the excerpted Beowulf. Reading Nickel Mountain, I was struck by both an epiphany of sorts, the discovery of a brilliant author new to me; and struck by the injustice of the current out of print status of the work. The same quibblesome comment should attend a discussion of why Harold and Maude (the novel) isn't at the fingers of more of those otiose, over-caffeinated browsers in ....

Invective against certain publishers or readers aside, I will deem this book one of the best I've read in a while. Gardner had a knack for plucking scraps of sentiment and characterization and giving them the reins over the story. The characters in Nickel Mountain are given the sort of emotion and are treated with the same intense, meticulous speculation that Steinbeck lent to his brilliant characters; this is the lodestar of a galaxy of seemingly muddled but, when examined pensively and closely, heterogeneous and multihued feelings; Gardner put a multifaceted heart into this novel. Revelations of aspects in the characters of Henry and Callie, and the myriad supporting characters in New Carthage, from Mr. Kuzitski, moribund from page one, to George Loomis, amount to a breathtaking and touching expression of human interaction. Too stunning to be found only on a rack of unwanted, weathered paperbacks in a murky corner of a public library, where I found my copy.

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5.0�toiles sur 5 Enjoy it like a feast and read it slowly ., Jui 30 1999

Par	David Jarret "dejarret" (Doylestown, PA USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires

This review is from: NICKEL MOUNTAIN (Mass Market Paperback)

The characters in this evocative book are inseparable from the pure texture of the unforgiving landscape in which they exist. Although their struggle concerns each one's individual search for love and acceptance, they ultimately acknowledge their situation for what it is; coming to peace with their own strengths and limitations. This book is truly a feast. I have found that it is to be savored by reading a chapter or two a week, allowing time in between courses to catch my breath. John Gardner was a writer without peer and I wonder what he would be producing today, nearly twenty years after his death.

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3.0�toiles sur 5 good
Gardner's talent ain't bad. But Gardner himself once said, "I'm the greatest writer since Chaucer. Read more

Publi� le Juil 14 2001

5.0�toiles sur 5 "Hauntingly beautiful, it stays with you forever."
I read Nickel Mountain" for the first time over 20 year ago, and it has never left my life. The characters in this book touch your heart and soul for a liftime. Read more

Publi� le Janv. 17 1999