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Discovering a dead body at a lake near the Canadian border, twelve-year-old Mees Kipp inexplicably brings the man back to life and realizes that she possesses an extraordinary gift that irrevocably shapes the lives of Mees, her two friends, and their community. By the author of Versailles. Read more
Publisher : Little, Brown & Co. (January 26, 2006)
Language : English
Hardcover : 277 pages
ISBN-10 : 0316735043
ISBN-13 : 49
Item Weight : 1.9 pounds
Dimensions : 5.75 x 1 x 8.5 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #1,923,035 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #80,740 in Literary Fiction (Books)
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Customer Reviews: 3.6 3.6 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
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Kathryn Davis is a new author to me. Critically recognized for some of her other work, Davis has somehow managed to stay in the popular shadows of fiction. Now, with the publication of her sixth book, The Thin Place, hopefully this will drag her into the light of being well known, inventive, and incredibly literate. This book tells the tale of the citizens of Varennes, a little town close to the Canadian border, who are also closely connected by little silver threads of desire, envy, anger, greed, love, lust, and growth. It starts with three girls finding a body on the beach, and one of the girls striving for the miraculous and bringing the man back to life. Over the pages we meet an elderly lady living in a retirement home, her son who jumps from marriage to marriage because he loves women, another woman who restores books, one who ushers in church, a teacher who is putting on a play for his students which brings us back to the girls. The Thin Place is by no means an easy novel or a quick read. It demands your attention from the first page, and should anything wrestle your focus away for even a moment, you find yourself lost. Partially this is due to Davis' incredible fluid writing style. One might liken it to a stream running over your page, as attention shifts about in a scene much as if a camera would in filming erratically. It's in this fluidity that the beauty of Davis' prose rests. She doesn't ignore the meager nor the less-important, everything gets a voice in her writing; from dogs, to beaver, to lichen to the ice sheets moving over the earth in its great sculpting array. Much of this reminds me of Whitman and his poetry. As he strove to encompass all around him in his verse, Davis strives to encompass all in her paragraphs. The effect, for both, in enlighting and illuminating. Both highlight the interconnectedness of everything; of how we all live in dangerously tight webs and should not expect to move without effecting all around. The Thin Place is a great novel. It is demanding, exacting, and noticing all. It is a gentle roller coaster ride in literature that you never quite sure when you'll get off, but when you do, you'll want to get on all over again.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2006 by James Hiller
I couldn't make heads or tails of this book and more importantly I couldn't stay awake. This book didn't make much sense to me and life is too short so I didn't bother to finish it. I realized when I was on page 70 something and I couldn't even write a one sentence summary on the book that it was probably time to move on.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2007 by No Thanks
I read the library copy of this wonderful book, then bought it for my own library because this is a book I will read over and over. Not only the language and images, the characters and places, but the spiritual, other-worldly, whole-worldly themes drew me into the mystery of creation. I got to hear Kathryn Davis speak at the Calvin College Festival of Faith and Writing last month and her presence and shared insights lived up to the masterful content of her novels. She's a deep, imaginative thinker who plumbs her ideas to the core and then takes them out into the starry universe.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2010 by forsythia
The first time I tried it from the library this is what I thought: The font on this library hardback is too small. I made it through the first chapter and it looks to be a good book. Put in a request for the large-print or audio version at the library. Requested that it be available to Kindle at Amazon. Hopefully I can try this again someday. *** Second try: Now, I have not only the large print hard cover edition from the library but I bought the Audible version with Shelly Frasier as narrator. The font on the hardback is larger but the space between lines and lack of paragraph spaces still make this a hard read for me. So I listened more than read. Shelly has a nice voice and reads the story as I feel I would have in my head. It is a pleasant book. A pleasant story. But for the most part I feel I have lived a life similar to this having lived in two small towns and been a member of numerous churches. Peyton Place. Gossip city. Mostly where I lost my hope for human kind. I felt nothing for the characters. I felt no growth. I did like the dog and the cat. But felt Christopher Moore did a better job with the inner thoughts of a dog in The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove. So the dog brought up the star rating to two stars. I had hope. I kept waiting for the point. Then I started waiting for the death of the people as it seemed that was where the author was determined to go. But my decision to raise this to three stars is the poetic prose. Kathryn Davis' descriptions are marvelous. I suppose if this were one of the only books in a cabin in the woods this would be great to read. With 3,000 books on my Kindle (or actually on my Calibre) to read this--well, I am glad to be on to some other read.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2012 by darswords