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A Fine and Private Place
by Peter S. Beagle (Goodreads Author)
by Peter S. Beagle (Goodreads Author)
James's review
bookshelves: character-studies, culture-and-politics, fantasy, humor, relationships, spirituality-and-or-religion, health-care-healing-and-wellness, death-dying-killing-bereavement
Jun 26, 08
bookshelves: character-studies, culture-and-politics, fantasy, humor, relationships, spirituality-and-or-religion, health-care-healing-and-wellness, death-dying-killing-bereavement
Recommended for:
Anyone
Read in January, 1975
How many authors can set a romantic comedy in a cemetery, with a cast including some of the residents, and make it work? Beagle is a wonderful storyteller, and I loved this book. He makes his characters feel real and makes the reader (me, at least) care deeply about them and their joys and hurts, and he balances it with a light and funny streak of absurdity. As a writer, this is the kind of thing that makes me jealous, at the same time it makes me want to be a writer more than ever.
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