Answer As a Man [Hardcover]

Taylor Caldwell (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Doubleday (June 1980)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0385153244
• ISBN-13: 978-0385153249
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,223,836 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Answer As a Man by Taylor Caldwell, November 23, 2001

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An 11-year old reader (Marshfield,WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Answer As a Man (Hardcover)

This book offers a sense of what it was like back in the 1900s. The story, a marvelous written book, shares the feelings and hardships of a boy, who in this ploit eventulally shares it as a man. This tale of a stong Irish man stuggiling to suceed is meant to be big. It lives up to any readers expectations in my opinion.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Retelling of "Job", October 28, 2011

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J. Woolf "l.m. montgomerey fan" (lubbock, tx) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Answer as a Man (Hardcover)

I agreed with some of the reviewers at first--I couldn't figure out why so many awful things could keep happening to this poor protagonist, nonstop--until it dawned on me that this was a retelling of the book of Job from the Bible. Ha! I should have figured it out from the title, which is a quote from Job. I believe there is even a part where he thinks about the temptation to "curse God and die," another quotation from the Biblical book. Once I figured out the connection, the book made a lot more sense. It's a rough read, though--not a happy story. But well written and interesting.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Answer As A Man, January 29, 2000

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Deby (Palm Bay, Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Answer as a Man (Hardcover)

READ THIS BOOK! Totally gripping! The book had been recommended to me to be one of the most interesting novels Taylor Caldwell has wirtten. I had heard the author writes with influence from the spirit world and enjoyed the historical details.