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A Fine and Private Place - Peter S. Beagle
A Fine and Private Place
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ISBN: 9780613172240 (0613172248)
Edition language: English
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Stumbling Over Chaos
Stumbling Over Chaos rated it
3.0
2.5 stars. Ok story about a man who's lived in a graveyard in the Bronx for the past 20 years, keeping newly arrived ghosts company and eating food brought to him by a talking raven. It was also a story about the lies we tell ourselves and how hard it can be to face the truth. I felt it suffered fro...
A Spoopy Love Affair With Books
A Spoopy Love Affair With Books rated it
5.0 Review: A Fine and Private Place
There are no happy endings, because nothing ever ends. That (admittedly paraphrased) quote pretty much encapsulates the book, which is sometimes sweetly cynical, and always bittersweetly romantic. Prose that is poetic, with its beautiful and sometimes stark similes and metaphors, without being flori...
The Drift Of Things
The Drift Of Things rated it
3.0
2 1/2 starsIt's impressive that Peter Beagle wrote his first novel at the age of nineteen. I'm sorry to say the story doesn't add up to much. He would have done well to indulge more in whimsy and skip the philosophical ramblings. I've read his sweet novel, The Last Unicorn, as well as his picaresq...
Books etc.
Books etc. rated it
4.0 A Fine and Private Place
A book that made me like Beagle even more than before. It tells a story about living and loving among the dead. Michael, a ghost who insisted on hanging to life. Rebeck, a living man who felt more at home with the dead. Laura, trying to find love after death. Mrs. Klapper, living her life still in t...
Tower of Iron Will
Tower of Iron Will rated it
4.0
A love story between two ghosts observed by a homeless man who lives in a cemetery. A very goth novel.
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