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The Elements of Style, A Novel [Paperback]

Sarah Hafner (Author)
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Franny Spellman, quiltmaker and writer, has hit the road. Now, if only she knew where she was going, her long, strange trip might start to make sense. But Franny never does things the easy way. This time she's looking for a husband, while traveling from Massachusetts to New Jersey to the California coast, sorting through the free spirits and crazy men she meets along the way.

Though her life is often a struggle, Franny is a wry, charming, and sometimes acerbic observer of her own life. Her smart musings are irresistible, and it doesn't take long before we realize we have found a delightful new voice in Sarah Hafner's novel.

The Elements of Style is a beautifully written and intimate novel. It opens the life of an artist to the world, and the result is a sometimes sad, sometimes witty, but always deeply touching story about love.


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  • Paperback: 200 pages
  • Publisher: Vivisphere Publishing (May 29, 1999)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1892323117
  • ISBN-13: 978-1892323118
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,821,437 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars A mature Salinger arrives on the scene and it's a woman!, July 29, 1999
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Many of us have been waiting for a long time for J.D. Salinger to grow up. We love the writing, the sensibility, and occasional magic; but alas, what wisdom it has belongs to the world of adolescence, which is why his books, as beloved as they are, sit (with Winnie the Pooh and Peter Pan)on that peculiar bookshelf of 'not quite literature.' I told a classroom of 15-year olds at Stoneham (Mass) High School in 1962 that they had better read THE CATCHER IN THE RYE before they got much older or it wouldn't work for them. Sarah Hafner's novel is as close as I've come to discovering an adult J.D. Salinger. The honesty and wonderful irreverance is there, much of the sensibility, the gifted writing - it has the feel of the popular, young master. But behold, there is maturity here too, which, of course, costs a little in magic. And for me, the cost is well worth the marvelous and witty wisdom that we gain in its place. Grab a first edition of this book before it disappears. You'll love it and someday it'll make you a fortune! Sarah Hafner is the real thing.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An intensely honest portrait!, August 18, 1999
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Read it in one sitting; brought tears to my eyes... I rank this with Rebecca Goldstein's The Mind Body Problem and Aldous Huxley's The Genius and the Goddess as one of my favorite novels about the mismatch between the mind and the body, and between intellectual and creative ambitions and real life, if one is too intelligent.
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