false <![CDATA[The Red Tree]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1229050702m/5356476.jpg 6628738 2 Sarah Crowe left Atlanta, and the remnants of a tumultuous relationship, to live alone in an old house in rural Rhode Island. Within its walls she discovers an unfinished manuscript written by the house-s former tenant-a parapsychologist obsessed with the ancient oak growing on a desolate corner of the property. And as the gnarled tree takes root in her imagination, Sarah risks her health and her sanity to unearth a revelation planted centuries ago- 6823081 book 10 7 2009 The Red Tree total:67|5:30|4:24|3:11|2:5|1:0| 67 277 198 27 5 0 false false Wed Aug 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 14:48:03 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 14:48:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false true Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 09:01:09 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 09:17:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Aug 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 12:34:15 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 12:45:32 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Aug 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 06:31:56 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 06:33:41 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Nov 04 07:49:31 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 04 07:50:17 -0800 2009
Whilst poking around in the home she comes acros...more...]]> 5 2 false false Tue Oct 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 19:12:23 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 14:08:36 -0700 2009 The Red Tree deserves much more attention than it will probably get. The cover (which the author didn't like) appears to make it easy to categorize--paranormal romance.

Instead, the work is a highly poetic ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Sep 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 07:42:33 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 15:01:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Sep 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 06 04:56:49 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 15:01:42 -0700 2009 The Red Tree, one of...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Oct 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 22:05:01 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 19:50:59 -0700 2009
It took me a while to finish this book because I had midterms to study for, papers to write,...more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Aug 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 17:24:15 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 15:01:42 -0700 2009 THE RED TREE, a haunting, even ghostly, tale of loss, memory, and melancholy, Caitlín R. Kiernan carves fresh paths through an overgrown literary landscape evocative of Shirley Jackson and Angela Carter. There is a great deal of beauty here, as local legends and subjective personal history int...more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Aug 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 22:10:35 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 23:12:58 -0700 2009
1. This is a book both Angela Carter and Shirley Jackson would have been proud to have written.

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When Sarah Crowe moves from Atlanta to a secluded farm house in New England, she finds a manuscript detailing the strange and sometimes horrifying events surroun...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Oct 11 07:52:20 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 07:56:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Oct 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 04:27:43 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 29 06:17:00 -0700 2009
Firstly, this novel has the most misleading cover I have ever seen; surely a case of the artist having not read the book?
The novel is also highly ambiguous and if you are looking for a straight up/ ends tied, read, this is not it.
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The story centers on Sarah Crowe, a writer who moves to an isolated house in Rhode Island after her lover's death. Beset by writer's block, she finds herself unable to write the novel her...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 19:27:04 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 19:30:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Tue Dec 01 17:16:48 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 01 17:18:30 -0800 2009 Amazon blog: Now she has a new novel out, The Red Tree, that's as ambitious and atmospheric as anything she's ever written. With layered stories-within-stories and the use of a writer as a narrator, the novel may be complex, but its emotional resonance is simple and pure.more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Aug 18 05:38:26 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 05:40:09 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Fri Nov 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 12:50:02 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 13 13:01:32 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=5356476