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5.0 out of 5 stars
A World-Class Novel,
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This review is from: The Closets Of Heaven (Paperback)
I've just read the novel for the fourth time. Not to recapture a glow once felt. Rather to meet again an attractive, if melancholic, woman who continues to mystify and amuse. Novelist Glancy got her inspiration from Acts of the Apostles (9:36-43). Indeed the novel may be said to be something of a pastiche of that passage, but she takes the few words and turns them into a tapestry. The time, the beginning of the Christian era. The central figure lies dead in the upper room of her own house. A woman known not only for her good works as a new Christian but also for her good work as a seamstress, designer, and manufacturer of all sorts of garments. The widows mourn, the messengers run for Simon Peter, who happens to be in town. He returns, calling from the dead Tabitha (as she was known in Aramaic); Dorcas (as she was known in Greek, the language of Acts). He did so, but without having asking her if she wanted to return; she didn't. The first sentences are perhaps her epitaph. "I only want to sew, to have my hands in the threads.... Sewing is my prayer." Yes, sewing is the motif. And what Glancy herself has sewn is a first-class character in a world-class novel. I shall read it again soon.
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The Closets Of Heaven by Diane Glancy (Paperback - 1999)
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