Remember Me Dancing [Paperback]

Ken Parejko (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 382 pages
• Publisher: Waubesa Pr (May 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1878569368
• ISBN-13: 978-1878569363
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,939,587 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Remember Me Dancing, April 20, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Remember Me Dancing (Paperback)

This book is a wonderful depiction of a time and a culture, one that refuses to gloss over the unpleasant aspects of the lives it represents. I found it to be extraordinarily touching, both brutal and tender, tragic and beautiful, evocative and unflinching. The characters are so well conceived and so well represented that I was moved to tears as I read. My mother sent a copy to me and we haven't stopped talking about it since. I felt the presence of the characters and now feel the loss of them. I come from a Polish American background, and find myself identifying characters in the book with characters in my own family history. This book was impossible for me to put down, and I would whole-heartedly recommend it.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book is a rare and beautifully written treat!, January 18, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Remember Me Dancing (Paperback)

The people who inhabit the pages of Ken Parejkno's wonderful and beautifully written book, Remember Me Dancing, become to us, the readers, far more than names on a page. Each one of the Topolski relatives grows as dear to us as a member of our own family; it feels as if the Topolski's neighbors live over the back field from us. We rejoice when they are happy and join with them in mourning during their times of sorrow and bad luck. Rarely does one find such detailed description couched in language so vivid and colorful. Parejko helps us better to understand the life experiences of Polish families new to our country. In addition, his descriptions of Wisconsin farm life in the first half of this century hold a magnetism which draws us in and holds us captivated. What a treat this book is!

0 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This book was amateurish, poorly written and boring., March 4, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Remember Me Dancing (Paperback)

The characters were so poorly developed that many of them seemed interchangeable; not one of them seemed real enough to involve the reader in the novel. Another problem was that a character who did great harm to members of her family was not "fleshed in" sufficiently for the reader to understand the reasons for her evil actions. Also, confusion resulted from mistakes like giving two characters the same name. Finally, this book could have benefited from a good editing job; the many errors in usage and grammar proved very distracting and irritating.