Disobedience [Import] [Paperback]

Jane Hamilton (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Black Swan; New Ed edition (2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0552998907
• ISBN-13: 978-0552998901
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,835,323 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jane Hamilton is the author of The Book of Ruth, winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award for first fiction, and A Map of the World, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and named one of the top ten books of the year by Entertainment Weekly, Publishers Weekly, the Miami Herald, and People. Both The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World have been selections of Oprah's Book Club. Her following work, The Short History of a Prince, was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1998, her novel Disobedience was published in 2000, and her last novel When Madeline Was Young was a Washington Post Best Book of 2006. She lives in and writes in an orchard farmhouse in Wisconsin.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Didn't love it, December 25, 2009

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GradStud "gradstud" (Storrs, CT) - See all my reviews

This review is from: DISOBEDIENCE. (Hardcover)

I think Jane Hamilton is an amazing writer - I loved Map of the World and Book of Ruth. I know some people have issues with disturbing stories but I actually like them and respect a well-told story. I don't need there to be a happy, hollywood ending - really, ever. Which is what I like about Hamilton, she writes about real people - real tragic stories and we get to know the characters so well.

I liked the characters in this story but the story was really centered on insignificance. I kept reading only because I was sure there must have been more to the story, SOMETHING more to understand why Henry was so distraught!