false 209487 <![CDATA[Sacred Country]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172701407m/209487.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172701407s/209487.jpg "I have a secret to tell you, dear, and this is it: I am not Mary. That is a mistake. I am not a girl. I'm a boy." Mary's fight to become Martin, her claustrophobic small town, and her troubled family make up the core of this remarkable and intimate, emotional yet unsentimental novel. As daring as Virginia Woolf's Orlando, Sacred Country inspires us to reconsider the essence of gender, and proposes new insights in the unraveling of that timeless malady known as the human condition. As Mary's mother, Estelle, observes, "There are no whole truths, just as there is no heart of the onion. There are only the dreams of the individual mind."

Sweeping us through three decades, from the repressive English countryside of the fifties to the swinging London of the sixties to the rhinestone tackiness of seventies America, Rose Tremain unmasks the "sacred country" within us all.

]]> 209487 9 1578415 1992 Sacred Country total:104|5:28|4:45|3:26|2:4|1:1| 104 407 158 17 4183 3.77 1420 311 40939757 414793 209487 0671886096 9780671886097 13 <![CDATA[Sacred Country]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172701407m/209487.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172701407s/209487.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/209487.Sacred_Country 3.94 93 "I have a secret to tell you, dear, and this is it: I am not Mary. That is a mistake. I am not a girl. I'm a boy." Mary's fight to become Martin, her claustrophobic small town, and her troubled family make up the core of this remarkable and intimate, emotional yet unsentimental novel. As daring as Virginia Woolf's Orlando, Sacred Country inspires us to reconsider the essence of gender, and proposes new insights in the unraveling of that timeless malady known as the human condition. As Mary's mother, Estelle, observes, "There are no whole truths, just as there is no heart of the onion. There are only the dreams of the individual mind."

Sweeping us through three decades, from the repressive English countryside of the fifties to the swinging London of the sixties to the rhinestone tackiness of seventies America, Rose Tremain unmasks the "sacred country" within us all.

]]> 1992 3 1 false Fri Dec 26 11:08:08 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 26 11:11:48 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4717926 187043 209487 0671886096 9780671886097 13 <![CDATA[Sacred Country]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172701407m/209487.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172701407s/209487.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/209487.Sacred_Country 3.91 104 "I have a secret to tell you, dear, and this is it: I am not Mary. That is a mistake. I am not a girl. I'm a boy." Mary's fight to become Martin, her claustrophobic small town, and her troubled family make up the core of this remarkable and intimate, emotional yet unsentimental novel. As daring as Virginia Woolf's Orlando, Sacred Country inspires us to reconsider the essence of gender, and proposes new insights in the unraveling of that timeless malady known as the human condition. As Mary's mother, Estelle, observes, "There are no whole truths, just as there is no heart of the onion. There are only the dreams of the individual mind."

Sweeping us through three decades, from the repressive English countryside of the fifties to the swinging London of the sixties to the rhinestone tackiness of seventies America, Rose Tremain unmasks the "sacred country" within us all.

]]> 1992 4 1 false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Fri Aug 17 20:18:15 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 05:44:54 -0800 2009 ]]> 56201103 390611 209487 0671886096 9780671886097 13 <![CDATA[Sacred Country]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172701407m/209487.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172701407s/209487.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/209487.Sacred_Country 3.91 104 "I have a secret to tell you, dear, and this is it: I am not Mary. That is a mistake. I am not a girl. I'm a boy." Mary's fight to become Martin, her claustrophobic small town, and her troubled family make up the core of this remarkable and intimate, emotional yet unsentimental novel. As daring as Virginia Woolf's Orlando, Sacred Country inspires us to reconsider the essence of gender, and proposes new insights in the unraveling of that timeless malady known as the human condition. As Mary's mother, Estelle, observes, "There are no whole truths, just as there is no heart of the onion. There are only the dreams of the individual mind."

Sweeping us through three decades, from the repressive English countryside of the fifties to the swinging London of the sixties to the rhinestone tackiness of seventies America, Rose Tremain unmasks the "sacred country" within us all.

]]> 1992 5 1 false Tue May 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 15 13:02:28 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 09:24:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 39379399 172977 209487 0671886096 9780671886097 13 <![CDATA[Sacred Country]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172701407m/209487.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172701407s/209487.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/209487.Sacred_Country 3.91 104 "I have a secret to tell you, dear, and this is it: I am not Mary. That is a mistake. I am not a girl. I'm a boy." Mary's fight to become Martin, her claustrophobic small town, and her troubled family make up the core of this remarkable and intimate, emotional yet unsentimental novel. As daring as Virginia Woolf's Orlando, Sacred Country inspires us to reconsider the essence of gender, and proposes new insights in the unraveling of that timeless malady known as the human condition. As Mary's mother, Estelle, observes, "There are no whole truths, just as there is no heart of the onion. There are only the dreams of the individual mind."

Sweeping us through three decades, from the repressive English countryside of the fifties to the swinging London of the sixties to the rhinestone tackiness of seventies America, Rose Tremain unmasks the "sacred country" within us all.

]]> 1992 4 1 false Tue Dec 09 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 05 11:33:21 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 09 10:59:35 -0800 2008 more...]]> 78329414 1945192 209487 0671886096 9780671886097 13 <![CDATA[Sacred Country]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172701407m/209487.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172701407s/209487.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/209487.Sacred_Country 3.91 104 "I have a secret to tell you, dear, and this is it: I am not Mary. That is a mistake. I am not a girl. I'm a boy." Mary's fight to become Martin, her claustrophobic small town, and her troubled family make up the core of this remarkable and intimate, emotional yet unsentimental novel. As daring as Virginia Woolf's Orlando, Sacred Country inspires us to reconsider the essence of gender, and proposes new insights in the unraveling of that timeless malady known as the human condition. As Mary's mother, Estelle, observes, "There are no whole truths, just as there is no heart of the onion. There are only the dreams of the individual mind."

Sweeping us through three decades, from the repressive English countryside of the fifties to the swinging London of the sixties to the rhinestone tackiness of seventies America, Rose Tremain unmasks the "sacred country" within us all.

]]> 1992 3 0 false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Nov 19 11:03:11 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 11:05:49 -0800 2009 77265118 546969 209487 0671886096 9780671886097 13 <![CDATA[Sacred Country]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172701407m/209487.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172701407s/209487.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/209487.Sacred_Country 3.91 104 "I have a secret to tell you, dear, and this is it: I am not Mary. That is a mistake. I am not a girl. I'm a boy." Mary's fight to become Martin, her claustrophobic small town, and her troubled family make up the core of this remarkable and intimate, emotional yet unsentimental novel. As daring as Virginia Woolf's Orlando, Sacred Country inspires us to reconsider the essence of gender, and proposes new insights in the unraveling of that timeless malady known as the human condition. As Mary's mother, Estelle, observes, "There are no whole truths, just as there is no heart of the onion. There are only the dreams of the individual mind."

Sweeping us through three decades, from the repressive English countryside of the fifties to the swinging London of the sixties to the rhinestone tackiness of seventies America, Rose Tremain unmasks the "sacred country" within us all.

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Sweeping us through three decades, from the repressive English countryside of the fifties to the swinging London of the sixties to the rhinestone tackiness of seventies America, Rose Tremain unmasks the "sacred country" within us all.

]]> 1992 4 0 false Wed Mar 04 10:37:21 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 04 10:38:31 -0800 2009 51040366 2178731 209487 0671886096 9780671886097 13 <![CDATA[Sacred Country]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172701407m/209487.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172701407s/209487.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/209487.Sacred_Country 3.91 104 "I have a secret to tell you, dear, and this is it: I am not Mary. That is a mistake. I am not a girl. I'm a boy." Mary's fight to become Martin, her claustrophobic small town, and her troubled family make up the core of this remarkable and intimate, emotional yet unsentimental novel. As daring as Virginia Woolf's Orlando, Sacred Country inspires us to reconsider the essence of gender, and proposes new insights in the unraveling of that timeless malady known as the human condition. As Mary's mother, Estelle, observes, "There are no whole truths, just as there is no heart of the onion. There are only the dreams of the individual mind."

Sweeping us through three decades, from the repressive English countryside of the fifties to the swinging London of the sixties to the rhinestone tackiness of seventies America, Rose Tremain unmasks the "sacred country" within us all.

]]> 1992 0 0 false Tue Mar 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 31 11:11:49 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 31 11:12:55 -0700 2009 46965440 2053966 209487 0671886096 9780671886097 13 <![CDATA[Sacred Country]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172701407m/209487.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172701407s/209487.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/209487.Sacred_Country 3.91 104 "I have a secret to tell you, dear, and this is it: I am not Mary. That is a mistake. I am not a girl. I'm a boy." Mary's fight to become Martin, her claustrophobic small town, and her troubled family make up the core of this remarkable and intimate, emotional yet unsentimental novel. As daring as Virginia Woolf's Orlando, Sacred Country inspires us to reconsider the essence of gender, and proposes new insights in the unraveling of that timeless malady known as the human condition. As Mary's mother, Estelle, observes, "There are no whole truths, just as there is no heart of the onion. There are only the dreams of the individual mind."

Sweeping us through three decades, from the repressive English countryside of the fifties to the swinging London of the sixties to the rhinestone tackiness of seventies America, Rose Tremain unmasks the "sacred country" within us all.

]]> 1992 5 0 false Fri Feb 20 10:59:53 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 13 09:11:55 -0700 2009 36905684 1684280 381532 0099422034 9780099422037 4 <![CDATA[Sacred Country]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174330990m/381532.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174330990s/381532.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/381532.Sacred_Country 3.73 11 Sacred Country, although British writer Rose Tremain (author of The Way I Found Her) so lovingly treats the bleak town of Swaithey, England, where Mary grows up, and the people around her that the novel eddies out to encompass the town and times. With a steady eye, Tremain describes the harsh circumstances of Mary's early life and her disconnection from her body and surroundings. That she can find so much humor and magic in Mary's slow transformation into Martin is remarkable, but the book may be most memorable for its quiet realism and light, exacting prose. Not to be missed. --Regina Marler ]]> 1992 4 0 false Tue Nov 04 11:45:19 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 06 11:34:02 -0800 2008
Unlike some novels set at precise times in recent history (in this case from 1952-1980) there was nothing clunky about the way references to real events or people were dropped in. In fact, I ...more...]]> 58766815 1993332 209487 0671886096 9780671886097 13 <![CDATA[Sacred Country]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172701407m/209487.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172701407s/209487.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/209487.Sacred_Country 3.91 104 "I have a secret to tell you, dear, and this is it: I am not Mary. That is a mistake. I am not a girl. I'm a boy." Mary's fight to become Martin, her claustrophobic small town, and her troubled family make up the core of this remarkable and intimate, emotional yet unsentimental novel. As daring as Virginia Woolf's Orlando, Sacred Country inspires us to reconsider the essence of gender, and proposes new insights in the unraveling of that timeless malady known as the human condition. As Mary's mother, Estelle, observes, "There are no whole truths, just as there is no heart of the onion. There are only the dreams of the individual mind."

Sweeping us through three decades, from the repressive English countryside of the fifties to the swinging London of the sixties to the rhinestone tackiness of seventies America, Rose Tremain unmasks the "sacred country" within us all.

]]> 1992 1 0 false Sun Jun 07 12:50:54 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 07 12:51:10 -0700 2009 22674969 323906 209487 0671886096 9780671886097 13 <![CDATA[Sacred Country]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172701407m/209487.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172701407s/209487.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/209487.Sacred_Country 3.91 104 "I have a secret to tell you, dear, and this is it: I am not Mary. That is a mistake. I am not a girl. I'm a boy." Mary's fight to become Martin, her claustrophobic small town, and her troubled family make up the core of this remarkable and intimate, emotional yet unsentimental novel. As daring as Virginia Woolf's Orlando, Sacred Country inspires us to reconsider the essence of gender, and proposes new insights in the unraveling of that timeless malady known as the human condition. As Mary's mother, Estelle, observes, "There are no whole truths, just as there is no heart of the onion. There are only the dreams of the individual mind."

Sweeping us through three decades, from the repressive English countryside of the fifties to the swinging London of the sixties to the rhinestone tackiness of seventies America, Rose Tremain unmasks the "sacred country" within us all.

]]> 1992 3 0 false Wed May 21 07:02:50 -0700 2008 Wed May 21 07:15:24 -0700 2008 more...]]> 9268852 132270 381532 0099422034 9780099422037 4 <![CDATA[Sacred Country]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174330990m/381532.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174330990s/381532.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/381532.Sacred_Country 3.91 104 Sacred Country, although British writer Rose Tremain (author of The Way I Found Her) so lovingly treats the bleak town of Swaithey, England, where Mary grows up, and the people around her that the novel eddies out to encompass the town and times. With a steady eye, Tremain describes the harsh circumstances of Mary's early life and her disconnection from her body and surroundings. That she can find so much humor and magic in Mary's slow transformation into Martin is remarkable, but the book may be most memorable for its quiet realism and light, exacting prose. Not to be missed. --Regina Marler ]]> 1992 2 0 false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Nov 18 09:05:37 -0800 2007 Sun Nov 18 09:10:50 -0800 2007 'We're all something else inside. Old Varindra explained that to me. But he said it's a mistake to think the inner thing is fully formed. It can't possibly be. Nothing grows properly in the dark.'
'When...more...]]> 6430866 378884 209487 0671886096 9780671886097 13 <![CDATA[Sacred Country]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172701407m/209487.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172701407s/209487.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/209487.Sacred_Country 3.91 104 "I have a secret to tell you, dear, and this is it: I am not Mary. That is a mistake. I am not a girl. I'm a boy." Mary's fight to become Martin, her claustrophobic small town, and her troubled family make up the core of this remarkable and intimate, emotional yet unsentimental novel. As daring as Virginia Woolf's Orlando, Sacred Country inspires us to reconsider the essence of gender, and proposes new insights in the unraveling of that timeless malady known as the human condition. As Mary's mother, Estelle, observes, "There are no whole truths, just as there is no heart of the onion. There are only the dreams of the individual mind."

Sweeping us through three decades, from the repressive English countryside of the fifties to the swinging London of the sixties to the rhinestone tackiness of seventies America, Rose Tremain unmasks the "sacred country" within us all.

]]> 1992 5 0 false Wed Sep 19 06:31:05 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 19 06:31:05 -0700 2007 8604924 543691 381532 0099422034 9780099422037 4 <![CDATA[Sacred Country]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174330990m/381532.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174330990s/381532.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/381532.Sacred_Country 3.91 104 Sacred Country, although British writer Rose Tremain (author of The Way I Found Her) so lovingly treats the bleak town of Swaithey, England, where Mary grows up, and the people around her that the novel eddies out to encompass the town and times. With a steady eye, Tremain describes the harsh circumstances of Mary's early life and her disconnection from her body and surroundings. That she can find so much humor and magic in Mary's slow transformation into Martin is remarkable, but the book may be most memorable for its quiet realism and light, exacting prose. Not to be missed. --Regina Marler ]]> 1992 5 0 false Sat Nov 03 07:42:26 -0700 2007 Sat Nov 03 07:46:57 -0700 2007 1534793 105723 381532 0099422034 9780099422037 4 <![CDATA[Sacred Country]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174330990m/381532.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174330990s/381532.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/381532.Sacred_Country 3.91 104 Sacred Country, although British writer Rose Tremain (author of The Way I Found Her) so lovingly treats the bleak town of Swaithey, England, where Mary grows up, and the people around her that the novel eddies out to encompass the town and times. With a steady eye, Tremain describes the harsh circumstances of Mary's early life and her disconnection from her body and surroundings. That she can find so much humor and magic in Mary's slow transformation into Martin is remarkable, but the book may be most memorable for its quiet realism and light, exacting prose. Not to be missed. --Regina Marler ]]> 1992 3 0 false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed May 30 01:47:10 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 20:21:39 -0800 2009 6752468 412295 209487 0671886096 9780671886097 13 <![CDATA[Sacred Country]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172701407m/209487.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172701407s/209487.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/209487.Sacred_Country 3.91 104 "I have a secret to tell you, dear, and this is it: I am not Mary. That is a mistake. I am not a girl. I'm a boy." Mary's fight to become Martin, her claustrophobic small town, and her troubled family make up the core of this remarkable and intimate, emotional yet unsentimental novel. As daring as Virginia Woolf's Orlando, Sacred Country inspires us to reconsider the essence of gender, and proposes new insights in the unraveling of that timeless malady known as the human condition. As Mary's mother, Estelle, observes, "There are no whole truths, just as there is no heart of the onion. There are only the dreams of the individual mind."

Sweeping us through three decades, from the repressive English countryside of the fifties to the swinging London of the sixties to the rhinestone tackiness of seventies America, Rose Tremain unmasks the "sacred country" within us all.

]]> 1992 0 0 false Tue Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2002 Tue Sep 25 03:55:48 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 25 03:55:48 -0700 2007 ]]> 81274549 546175 209487 0671886096 9780671886097 13 <![CDATA[Sacred Country]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172701407m/209487.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172701407s/209487.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/209487.Sacred_Country 3.91 104 "I have a secret to tell you, dear, and this is it: I am not Mary. That is a mistake. I am not a girl. I'm a boy." Mary's fight to become Martin, her claustrophobic small town, and her troubled family make up the core of this remarkable and intimate, emotional yet unsentimental novel. As daring as Virginia Woolf's Orlando, Sacred Country inspires us to reconsider the essence of gender, and proposes new insights in the unraveling of that timeless malady known as the human condition. As Mary's mother, Estelle, observes, "There are no whole truths, just as there is no heart of the onion. There are only the dreams of the individual mind."

Sweeping us through three decades, from the repressive English countryside of the fifties to the swinging London of the sixties to the rhinestone tackiness of seventies America, Rose Tremain unmasks the "sacred country" within us all.

]]> 1992 0 0 false Thu Dec 17 02:10:33 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 17 02:10:33 -0800 2009 79423396 1837319 1279358 0340561556 9780340561553 0 <![CDATA[Sacred Country]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182458481m/1279358.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182458481s/1279358.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1279358.Sacred_Country 0.0 0 Sacred Country, although British writer Rose Tremain (author of The Way I Found Her) so lovingly treats the bleak town of Swaithey, England, where Mary grows up, and the people around her that the novel eddies out to encompass the town and times. With a steady eye, Tremain describes the harsh circumstances of Mary's early life and her disconnection from her body and surroundings. That she can find so much humor and magic in Mary's slow transformation into Martin is remarkable, but the book may be most memorable for its quiet realism and light, exacting prose. Not to be missed. --Regina Marler ]]> 1992 0 0 false Mon Nov 30 11:37:04 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 30 11:37:04 -0800 2009 77988300 1469029 209487 0671886096 9780671886097 13 <![CDATA[Sacred Country]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172701407m/209487.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172701407s/209487.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/209487.Sacred_Country 3.91 104 "I have a secret to tell you, dear, and this is it: I am not Mary. That is a mistake. I am not a girl. I'm a boy." Mary's fight to become Martin, her claustrophobic small town, and her troubled family make up the core of this remarkable and intimate, emotional yet unsentimental novel. As daring as Virginia Woolf's Orlando, Sacred Country inspires us to reconsider the essence of gender, and proposes new insights in the unraveling of that timeless malady known as the human condition. As Mary's mother, Estelle, observes, "There are no whole truths, just as there is no heart of the onion. There are only the dreams of the individual mind."

Sweeping us through three decades, from the repressive English countryside of the fifties to the swinging London of the sixties to the rhinestone tackiness of seventies America, Rose Tremain unmasks the "sacred country" within us all.

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