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Buy The Almost Moon: A Novel by Alice Sebold available and for sale on Brightsurf
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by Alice Sebold
| | List Price: | $24.99 | | Price: | $16.49 | | You Save: | $8.50 (34%) |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 5733 | | Studio: | Little, Brown and Company | | | Binding: | Hardcover | | Number Of Pages: | 304 | | Publication Date: | October 16, 2007 | | Publisher: | Little, Brown and Company |
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Product Description
A woman steps over the line into the unthinkable in this brilliant, powerful, and unforgettable new novel by the author of The Lovely Bones and Lucky.
For years Helen Knightly has given her life to others: to her haunted mother, to her enigmatic father, to her husband and now grown children. When she finally crosses a terrible boundary, her life comes rushing in at her in a way she never could have imagined. Unfolding over the next twenty-four hours, this searing, fast-paced novel explores the complex ties between mothers and daughters, wives and lovers, the meaning of devotion, and the line between love and hate. It is a challenging, moving, gripping story, written with the fluidity and strength of voice that only Alice Sebold can bring to the page. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 2.5 based on 159 reviews)
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Kept me going 
I admit that this was a dark perverse novel, but it kept me going as I really wanted to find out how Helen would get out of it. The parents were just quirky enough to make them real in a very odd way. I was disappointed with the weak ending.
July 24, 2008 | |
can I give it a zero? 
I tolerated the sickening story up until the mother killer says (and I paraphrase) I stared into the hole that has given birth to me and I felt lust. I just wanted that tormented sicko to stop scrubbing all the orifices and call the police already. You don't have to be a prude to be totally disgusted. Her 88 year old dead mother is naked and covered in excrement and we have to get the blow by disgusting blow of description, including odors! Also, if that wasn't enough, the protagonist could have solved her problem--which was much more extensive than the fact she belonged in prison--by simply calling the police and saying that her mother fell down the stairs and she found her dead. But, no. She had to resort to the contrived dumb solution of hiding the body... Doesn't anyone in fiction ever JUST call the police? I hope this book will be the last one Alice Sebold ever writes. I loved her first book--it was sublime. I understand that she would be published even if she writes garbage, but she didn't have to take it so literally. Pity the trees, Ms. Sebold.
July 24, 2008 | |
Almost Moon
Helen's mother is like the "almost moon", she's almost sane. Living with that situation as a child and later as an adult, makes for an interesting, albeit crazy, relationship between mother and daughter. Sometimes a crazy relationship leads to crazy circumstances, and that is what happens in Almost Moon. That makes sense, but even that is not enough of an excuse to explain the very unrealistic events that unfold. As if in slow motion, we are presented with a very strange plot which just gets stranger and stranger. Nevertheless, it is an interesting read, if merely for the what-if factor. The whole book is "almost moon".
July 23, 2008 | |
Stark raving madness...I LOVE IT! 
Who better to write a book about a dark theme and infuse humor into it...ALICE SEBOLD! I loved THE LOVELY BONES and then her memoir LUCKY...so when my mother said she read a book and it was really weird and thought I might like it (I guess she was telling me I am weird) and I found out Sebold authored it I was ready to read and climbed right into the story with all its contrived madness and zaniness and I loved every word of it. BRAVO! Can't wait to see what Alice comes up with next...bring it!
July 18, 2008 | |
Really hated it, couldn't finish it
I was expecting something better from Sebold, having loved "The Lovely Bones", but this one really turned me off. I couldn't get beyond 50 pages or so (my rule is if I don't like a book after 50 pages, I dump it; life's too short to read something I hate) and I was repelled by both the story and protagonist. I know Sebold has been through some horrific things in the past and maybe, as another reviewer suggested, this is a way of working through some of that, but it didn't work for me. I'm not scared of a dark book, but just couldn't stick with this one. Hopefully her next one will be better.
July 17, 2008 | |
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