Etta and Otto and Russell and James: A Novel
Eighty-three-year-old Etta has never seen the ocean. So early one morning she takes a rifle, some chocolate, and her best boots and begins walking the 3,232 kilometers from rural Saskatchewan, Canada eastward to the sea. As Etta walks further toward the crashing waves, the lines among memory,...
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Eighty-three-year-old Etta has never seen the ocean. So early one morning she takes a rifle, some chocolate, and her best boots and begins walking the 3,232 kilometers from rural Saskatchewan, Canada eastward to the sea. As Etta walks further toward the crashing waves, the lines among memory, illusion, and reality blur.Otto wakes to a note left on the kitchen table. “I wil
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9781476755687 (147675568X)
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
The underlying framework of this book is the embarkation of journeys: literal, emotional-mental, metaphysical, and spiritual. This one takes place towards the close of life. But like all of life's journeys, there are the paths of others which run alongside yours. Some intersect, some intertwine, som...
Etta lives in the farmlands of Saskatchewan with her husband Otto. Her greatest unfulfilled dream ist to see the sea. At the age of eighty-two, she gets up very early, takes some chocolate, a rifle and her best boots and begins to walk the 2,000 miles to the water. But she’s starting to forget thing...
This is one of those books, I think, that people are either going to either love or hate. It is written in a unique, lyrical prose that sometimes feels more like a poem than a novel. It is also going to be subject to the scrutiny of the ardent fans of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry because it...
Title: Etta and Otto and Russell and James Author: Emma Hooper Genre: Fiction Publisher: Simon & Schuster Publication Date: January 20, 2015 Format: egalley via Netgalley Synopsis My rating: 5 of 5 stars My review (published at Read, Run, Ramble): Thank you Simon & Schuster via Netgalley for...
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