Remembering the Bones (unabridged) [Audio CD]

Frances Itani (Author)

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Harpercollins (2007)
• ISBN-10: 1554681316
• ISBN-13: 978-1554681310
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 5.2 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,773,896 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Reminiscence, December 22, 2007

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Jeffrey T. Atwood - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Remembering the Bones: A Novel (Hardcover)

Frances Itani brings to the surface a woman's full life. This book reminded me of Katherine Anne Porter's short story "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall". The heroine, stranded and injured, lets us join her while she recollects the highs and lows of her long life, beautifully and movingly portrayed.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Going to London to Visit the Queen, March 7, 2008

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A. Braun (St Louis, MO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Remembering the Bones: A Novel (Hardcover)

Poor Georgie Whitley. She's lying at the bottom of a ravine, having backed off into it while leaving her house for the airport. This isn't a spoiler; it happens in the first few pages. And the rest is brilliant. This is one of the finest books I've read. I cannot recommend it highly enough. You will laugh, and I expect you will cry, and you will miss Georgie terribly when you must come to the end of a book. Whatever Georgie's outcome, it occurs to me that finishing a book is like a little death. You can re-read something, but it will never be new to you again, and if you have been as absorbed by it as I was by this one, you will grieve a little. Buy "Remembering the Bones." Now.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars While at the bottom of the ravine...., July 1, 2008

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Linda (New Zealand) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Remembering the Bones (Hardcover)

Georgina (Georgie) who is 80 years old, and shares her birthday with the Queen, is one of the 99 privileged Commonwealth subjects who have been invited to Buckingham Palace for lunch. Georgie lives in Canada and has, all her life, felt close to Lilibet and has been looking forward to this once-in-a-lifetime adventure. Telling her family she can take perfect care of herself, and not to worry, and not to expect her to call them til she returns, Georgie sets off for the airport. En route, however, she has a car accident and ends up down the bottom of a ravine, not too far from her home. But no one knows what has happened. Flung from the car, with a broken leg and arm, ribs, and who knows what else, Georgie has to rely on mind over matter to keep herself alive. She talks to us, she tells us of her life as a child with her sister, mother, aunt and grandparents and a father who was too entrenched in his own life to notice his daughters; she tells us of her own marriage, its sorrows and its joys. She talks to Lilibet, reminding us that only the Queen will be missing her right now. She laughs, she cries, as she celebrates the lives of all those she has loved.

This is a powerfully reflective book, addressing the biggest question of them all, `what is my life worth'? The author keeps a tension between the past, the present and the question-mark of Georgie's future which hangs so precariously in the balance.