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The White Palazzo

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I love this book! I wish that I could call Tara on the telephone and talk to her. I fell in love with her instantly. This is a beautiful book! Ellen Cooney's style has an almost poetic rhythm. The stoy is like a fairy tale, but the characters are extremely real! When I finished the book I wanted to know them! This is a great book!

I know the author so I need to be anonymous; the author was my teacher in a workshop and I was nervous about reading her stuff as I was afraid to be let down, as she is a great teacher who doesn't do an ego thing, but is truly into creativity and art. I came across some of her stories and was impressed and then read THE WHITE PALAZZO and all I can say is, compared to something like 90 percent of what passes for novels these days, this is a genuine thing; this is the real thing. The characterization is first rate. The descriptions of inner thoughts is the key here which is a rare thing in contemporary writing. "Inner is where real life is" is what's happening. I agree with the comments made elsewhere that it is too short, though. But overall it is loaded with life, a real example of how the craft of writing is far from dead.

Just when I thought I knew a lot about how novels are put together, i.e., turning my hand to write one myself, along comes a book that, you get completely engrossed like it's a page-turner, and it hasn't got any of the aspects you think a novel has to have. There are two central characters but lots of minor characters, most of who, you never even actually see, they're background stories. But it's all such a vivid novel; you get so caught up in the plain sheer energy and power of the author's voice, which is amazingly unique. It gives me so much inspiration for what you can do with novels. I LOVE this book. I want to read the author's other works. Tara Barlow, the main character is unlike anyone I ever met in a book before, and so is Guida, her new girlfriend. Great!

THis is a light, enjoyable novel with very serious undercurrents about self and love and being in the world in the way you need to be in the world. I love this book. I can't wait to read it again.

I just finished reading this novel and I thought it was terrific. I loved the characters and found the story totally absorbing, tender, and funny. This book deserves to be a huge success.

What a comical novel this is! I love the humor as much as I love the 2 truly unique main characters, the new lovers who find out what a great thing they're in for. The writer handles the material brilliantly, you never know what's coming next.I love the focus on their thoughts. Everything is about how they are checking each other out and you get a sort of play by play thing on their emotions as they start falling in love, for the first time with someone their own sex. What an adventure! It says it's a road book and it really is. I am going to read this again! There's so much here, you really have to read between the lines a lot. Recommended highly.

This novel leaves you wishing there was more because it takes you right to the point of something big and exciting and then it ends before the plot comes to a definite finish. But I agree with the other reviews that there was never another book about two gays like this one. I read it feeling I was encountering something brand new and that is what it stayed like. I recommend this book.

Ellen Cooney is the consummate story teller. Her most recent work, White Palazzo, is well written fiction at its best. I particularly enjoyed the way Ellen Cooney develops her characters. In White Palazzo, she has created strong women characters, women of substance and humor. Read White Palazzo.

This is a great read. I have read a lot of books about gays and this one comes the closest ever to what it feels like to want to get together with someone of your own gender. I just wish it was longer. Maybe there will be a sequel. But there should be a movie of this. The main characters would be great for a movie.

This novel is unlike anything I ever read... I heard this writer on the radio reading from her book and I got her book because I was attracted by the sound of her words and the ideas of her characters.
I LOVED this book. It just jumped off the pages at me. Its' about 2 women and their new relationship but it makes you see anything is possible! And it is lots of fun.