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    <body><![CDATA[I bought this book because I had seen Crowley's new novel in hardcover and I wasn't willing to buy a hardcover book by an author I hadn't read before. I wish now that I had bought both becauase Crowley is fabulous. <em>The Translator</em> is a story about lost love and growing up and dealing with ones ghosts...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9393329">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book. It focuses on the relationship between a dissident Russia poet who is a professor at a midwestern college and his student, a female undergrad who helps him translate his work from Russian to English one summer. It is also a study of the early 1960's in America. During the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33205511">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;A being such as that couldn't die all in a day and be gone, it would take far longer, wouldn't it?  There would be things he would have to do, to tell us.  We, the rest of us, can't turn back after we have turned to go, but surely he could, for a time.  Oh turn back, she thought, turn back, ma...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13685177">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a good book.  The only reason for only 3 stars may be a reader fault rather than a writer fault.  Perhaps I did not give it the care and attention it deserved (life has been hectic; that's my excuse).  I read this because I would like to read 'Little,Big' and they didn't have it at the bran...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48717381">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought this would be a nice contrast to my Cuban book, but the Cuban missile crisis was merely another thread in a complicated story. The language is beautiful, the poetry comprehensible, the characters mysterious.  The plot drew me in, again a book that you have to drag yourself away from.  But ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42332703">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I absolutely love this author. This was the first book I read by Crowley, an intelligent author who realizes his readers are intelligent as he is and treats them that way. A wonderful novel about the beauty of life, the wonder and healing power of poetry, and the complicated nature of translating th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65176496">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was captivated by this book.  It is the story of a girl, Kit, who is disconnected from her peers and life. At college she becomes involved with a Russian expatriate poet, also disconnected from his life, and works with him to translate his poems. The story moves back and forth from Kit’s childho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17702215">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An artful, five-star exploration of a girl coming of age during the Cuban Missile Crisis comes to a jarring halt in the final chapter, set in the present. The mythopoeic connections that our hero speaks of seem obvious; the connections she fails to make, and which her rationalist father does for her...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56763438">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think this is definitely the Crowley book I'd recommend starting with - really accessible and interesting, but still has that hovering sense of the mysterious that's in all his work.  It has a sweetness to it that I loved.  It also got me to finally go look up 'carapace' in the dictionary :)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is very well written and tremendously poetic, but it took me a while to get into it. I've never really loved poetry, so that's probably why. If you're a poetry lover yourself, you'll probably enjoy this book more than I did.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow, I have no recollection of some of the books from this class.  Wonder if I can track down the f'real syllabus, not just my blog posts on the syllabi (which in this case say &quot;The Translator - Joan Crowley&quot;).]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Christa Malone the 'translator' of this tale falls in love with an emmigre<br/>Soviet poet who has lost everything.  But under what circumstances has he made it to the United States?  <br/><br/>The story and Christa's own poetry emerges slowly.  This is a haunting tale about life in the Soviet bl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47289870">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A complex book in which I especially loved the poetry and talk about poetry/language and the way personal and shared histories intertwined, the way mysteries remained mysterious - and the main characters, Kyt and Innokenti. Good read.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Beautifully written book on writing, literature and American politics.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this up because I had enjoyed The Evening Land, which i read for my book club. Despite thinking I was am not interested in the time period, or subject matter, I enjoyed The Translator even more. I agree with the reviewer above who was not bothered by the power dynamic of the couple in the b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21448751">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just about perfect.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My brother lent me another book by this author called Little, Big.  I read about 100 or so pages of it and I loved the writing but I felt like the story never started.  This novel has the same beautiful writing and a story--about a sensitive girl and a Russian professor during the Cuban Missile Cris...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3559730">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This story takes place during the Cuban missile crisis which I still remember, almost vividly because of where I grew up.  The book, although sometimes difficult to follow, spins a great tale of political drama and of a love affair that never quite works.  It's all about &quot;words&quot; - words th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17250278">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[John Crowley is a great writer.  I love the way he uses language.  I enjoyed reading the words of this book, the way he strung sentences together, and it was a quick read.  Which was for the best, because, frankly, it was kinda boring.  So, I liked it, but it's not one I'd be really quick to pass al...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/480337">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Girl goes to college, meets exiled Russian poet, learns Russian to help him translate his poems.  He disappears amid Cuban Missile Crisis.  She wants to know how involved he is.  Years later, goes to Russia for conference about the guy.]]></body>
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