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| Original Title: | Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague |
| ISBN: | 0142001430 (ISBN13: 9780142001431) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Anna Frith, Michael Mompellion, Elinor Mompellion |
| Setting: | Eyam, Derbyshire, England,1666(United Kingdom) |
| Literary Awards: | ALA Alex Award (2002) |
Geraldine Brooks
Paperback | Pages: 358 pages Rating: 4.01 | 127666 Users | 9387 Reviews
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| Title | : | Year of Wonders |
| Author | : | Geraldine Brooks |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 358 pages |
| Published | : | April 30th 2002 by Penguin Books (first published June 5th 2001) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. European Literature. British Literature. Adult. Book Club. Adult Fiction |
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When an infected bolt of cloth carries plague from London to an isolated village, a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer. Through Anna's eyes we follow the story of the fateful year of 1666, as she and her fellow villagers confront the spread of disease and superstition. As death reaches into every household and villagers turn from prayers to murderous witch-hunting, Anna must find the strength to confront the disintegration of her community and the lure of illicit love. As she struggles to survive and grow, a year of catastrophe becomes instead annus mirabilis, a "year of wonders." Inspired by the true story of Eyam, a village in the rugged hill country of England, Year of Wonders is a richly detailed evocation of a singular moment in history.Rating Appertaining To Books Year of Wonders
Ratings: 4.01 From 127666 Users | 9387 ReviewsAssessment Appertaining To Books Year of Wonders
Update: Mar 29/13--I don't know why I did it, but the very fact that I did it (finished this book) was going to lead me to up it to three stars. But now that I've done it I'M TAKING THIS DOWN TO ONE STAR -- HOLY MOLY AND GOLLY GEE WILLIKERS BUT I AM P.O.'d AT THIS BOOK. None of the last 50pp - new character development COMPLETELY in opposition and nonsensical to anything that went before, new sub-plots suggested and followed - were either necessary or sensible. ALL of it was entirely aYear of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks 2001 novel describes the plague years of 1666 and concludes with a very unusual and somewhat unbalanced ending. While reading I thought of Arthur Millers The Crucible and of course Camus The Plague (and I forgive her much about the ending for the mention of Oran which could NOT have been coincidence). This is simply, elegantly written and yet the force and brutality of the plot, told in such straightforward prose is also reminiscent of Sinners in the Hands of an
Year Of Wonders is the story of a very young, but determined and brave young widowed housemaid, Anna Frith, who (view spoiler)[ loses her two children (hide spoiler)] to the horrors of the plague, but soldiers on to help the town minister and his wife fight the contagion while quarantined within their village.This touching and sometimes grotesquely explicit novel set in 1666 England is full of heartbreaking stories depicting unbelievable cruelty, superstitions, profiteering from the dead and the
Year of Wonders is a historical novel about a small English town 100 miles outside of London. It's the year 1666, and the town has been struck by plague, brought to them by a London tailor boarding with our narrator, Anna. The village is so remote that when the plague first appears the villagers don't recognize it for what it is. Once they learn the horrors of the disease, the villagers are asked to make a decision whether to flee in order to save themselves, or to stay put in order to keep the
I loved reading this becauseI've known the story since I was very small & been to the placeThe protagonist is a poor womanThe most heroic character is a liberated womanThe most courageous characters are all womenThe author celebrates the lore and spirituality of cunning womenThe author celebrates love, loyalty and friendship between womenThe author celebrates communalist values and mutual careThe author takes witch-hunting to task as a masculist power-grabThe author takes Puritanism to task
Rarely has a book so captivated and then disappointed me with such a 180 turn to what I called utter "dreckage". Year of Wonders managed to do this, infortunately.In order to review, I have to break the book up between pages so that you can see where the trainwreck happened for me, and why I'm so PO'ed I could almost cry....REVIEW FOR PAGES 1-255Rating: 5 stars (I'd give it 10 stars if Goodreads had that designation, but since 5 stars means it was amazing, then 5 stars it is)Year of Wonders:
This is a book about the bubonic plague so I am basically expected this by the end:Spoilers abound below along with a not insignificant amount of profanity:(view spoiler)[So, expecting this book to be bleak, I shunted all of the emotions I anticipated feeling into the area of my heart where I keep my New York Mets fandom. You know, these guys:Sufficed to say their years of incompetence and disappointment have formed a nice level of scar tissue over that part of my metaphorical heart. So whatever
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