Paradise Park: A Novel - Hardcover

Goodman, Allegra

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385334168 ISBN 13: 9780385334167

Publisher: Dial Pr, 2001

Synopsis

After being abandoned by her boyfriend in Honolulu, the indomitable, irrepressible Sharon Spiegelman embarks on a spiritual quest in search of enlightenment, a journey that takes her from the Greater Love Salvation Church and the Consciousness Meditation Center back to Judaism and to true love. By the author of Kaaterskill Falls. 75,000 first printing.

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Review:

" Clear, rain-washed prose ...In Allegra Goodman's ebullient, bittersweet, plaintive Song of Sharon, the heroine's true achievement is finding poetry in.becoming who she's been all along."
-- "The New York Times Book Review
" " [The] narrator, that Sharon Spiegelman, has one of the most enchanting, idiosyncratic voices since Augie March."
-- "The Washington Post Book World
"" With Sharon Spiegelman, Goodman has created a Huck Finn for the modern age, drifting down the river of American spirituality."
-- "The Christian Science Monitor
"" Like Saul Bellow and Philip Roth before her, Goodman has achieved a breakthrough book."
-- "Time
"

"Clear, rain-washed prose ...In Allegra Goodman's ebullient, bittersweet, plaintive Song of Sharon, the heroine's true achievement is finding poetry in.becoming who she's been all along."
--"The New York Times Book Review
" "[The] narrator, that Sharon Spiegelman, has one of the most enchanting, idiosyncratic voices since Augie March."
--"The Washington Post Book World
""With Sharon Spiegelman, Goodman has created a Huck Finn for the modern age, drifting down the river of American spirituality."
--"The Christian Science Monitor
""Like Saul Bellow and Philip Roth before her, Goodman has achieved a breakthrough book."
--"Time
"

Clear, rain-washed prose ...In Allegra Goodman's ebullient, bittersweet, plaintive Song of Sharon, the heroine s true achievement is finding poetry in.becoming who she s been all along.
"The New York Times Book Review
" [The] narrator, that Sharon Spiegelman, has one of the most enchanting, idiosyncratic voices since Augie March.
"The Washington Post Book World
" With Sharon Spiegelman, Goodman has created a Huck Finn for the modern age, drifting down the river of American spirituality.
"The Christian Science Monitor
" Like Saul Bellow and Philip Roth before her, Goodman has achieved a breakthrough book.
"Time
""

About the Author:

Allegra Goodman's work has appeared in The New Yorker, Allure, Commentary, and Slate. She is the recipient of a Whiting Award and the Salon magazine award for fiction. She lives with her family in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she is at work on her next book.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dial Pr
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0385334168
• ISBN 13: 9780385334167
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 360