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The Wood Wife - Community Reviews back

by Terri Windling
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Jema reads
Jema reads rated it 12 years ago
Re-reading it for the book club. Was 15 years since the last time, will be nice to see if I love it as much this time around.
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book reviews forevermore rated it 14 years ago
Enjoyed it very much. Mystical-based urban fantasy, or rater, rural fantasy, as it largely takes place in a remote area of Arizona. Although this book was enjoyable once I sat down and made some uninterrupted time for it, I found the writing occasionally sermonizing, such as when a character is maki...
altheaann
altheaann rated it 16 years ago
Winner of the Mythopoeic Award.I really wish I hadn't read this so close to Charles DeLint's 'Memory and Dream'. It was written two years later (in 1996), and DeLint did a blurb for it, so I suppose he deserves credit - but the theme of this story is extremely similar. Both novels deal with the conc...
So, I Read This Book Today . . .
So, I Read This Book Today . . . rated it 56 years ago
"The Wood Wife" is one of those books that changed the face of American Literature. It was voted one of the 100 Best Books of the 20th Century (http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-novels/) right between "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison and "The Magus" by John Fowles. It also won the 1997 M...
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