false <![CDATA[Consequences]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172643739m/202880.jpg 202880 17 <B>The Booker Prize-winning author's first novel since <I>The Photograph</I> is a sweeping saga of three generations of women, their lives, and loves</B> <BR><BR> A chance meeting in St. James's Park begins young Lorna and Matt's intense relationship. Wholly in love, they leave London for a cottage in a rural Somerset village. Their intimate life together&#151;Matt's woodcarving, Lorna's self-discovery, their new baby, Molly&#151;is shattered with the arrival of World War II. In 1960s London, Molly happens upon a forgotten newspaper&#151;a seemingly small moment that leads to her first job and, eventually, a pregnancy by a wealthy man who wants to marry her but whom she does not love. Thirty years later, Ruth, who has always considered her existence a peculiar accident, questions her own marriage and begins a journey that takes her back to 1941&#151;and a redefinition of herself and of love. <BR><BR> Told in Lively's incomparable prose, <I>Consequences</I> is a powerful story of growth, death, and rebirth and a study of the previous century&#151;its major and minor events, its shaping of public consciousness, and its changing of lives. 2603106 31 5 2007 Consequences total:344|5:42|4:129|3:116|2:50|1:7| 344 1181 573 131 2 1 false false Mon Nov 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 22 08:18:41 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 22 08:23:27 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 09 06:26:22 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 09 06:41:31 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 18 09:16:22 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 09:16:39 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jan 04 12:14:04 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 12:14:17 -0800 2009 Consequences: Something Logical or Naturally That Follows, 28 Jul 2007



4.5 stars

"Consequences: Something that logically or naturally follows from an action or condition.
The relation of a result to its cause.
A logical concl...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Apr 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 20 20:07:06 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 20 20:15:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Sep 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 17:29:23 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 13:52:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 10:01:08 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 10:01:08 -0800 2009 In spare, elegant prose, Booker Prize–winner Penelope Lively (Moon Tiger, 1987) examines the nature of happiness and romantic love against the fast-moving zeitgeist of 20th-century England. Lively's characters are engaging and likable—so much so, in fact, that it can be difficult to let one gene...

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Lively’s best characters, Lorna and Molly, exist at the beginni...more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 15 09:11:44 -0700 2009 Fri May 15 09:20:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Aug 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 14 18:18:10 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 16:02:18 -0700 2009 Consequences is a thoughtful, elegantly written book that I keep thinking of as graceful. While the plot is filled with drama, spans three generations, and includes war, death, sex, and every deep and dramatic emotion possible, it nonetheless floats along without ever bogging down in sentimentality...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jan 26 16:35:27 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 07:44:07 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 16:35:27 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Sep 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 16 21:09:31 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 20 20:16:36 -0700 2008 1 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue May 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 11 22:14:03 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 02 12:46:04 -0700 2008
The author, Penelope Lively, attempts to connect th...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 17 11:30:32 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 08 11:32:23 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jun 23 16:11:32 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 23 16:12:38 -0700 2007
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