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Star of the Sea
by Joseph O'Connor
from Harvest Books

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Wish I Could Give It Six
  First off, as mentioned by another reviewer this is not a "summer reading" book. I agree with that person's comment and don't know why it would be included on a list like that. If you want a piece of summer fluff to read on the beach put this book down immediately and buy something by Sophie Kinsella. That being said, this is a book that you MUST read. It is best read like a scroll and you have to be willing to take time with it and allow the scroll to tell the story by unrolling at its own pace. The... more info

• Only thing rolling is the Sea
  This is one of those love or hate it books. The writing style is dense and borders on Dickens. The guy in the big dark coat and hat wandering the decks at night, etc. If you like older literature and the way it flows you'll probably love this book. Certainly the setting and period detail feels spot on. The dialogue and plot flow on the other hand is there but not driving you along. I picked up and put this book down 4 times before finishing. There was no sense of wonder whats happening next.

• Well Done Joseph O'Connor
  
  A wonderfully well woven tale of history, love and murder presented in a novel way, as a book within the book. The narrator of our story is G. Grantley Dixon an American newspaperman and passenger aboard The Star of the Sea traveling from Ireland to America in November of 1847.
  Traveling in first class with Dixon are the Earl David Merridith of Kingscourt, his wife Countess Laura, their two young sons and Mary Duane who they employ as their nanny.
  Aboard the Star traveling in steerage, with... more info

• Powerful!
  Pius Mulvey is one of literature's GREAT characters. The meeting between the Meridith's, father and son, is as intense as anything I have read. If not for a weak ending, this would be a masterpiece. Never the less, its close.

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