Singing in the Comeback Choir [Import] [Hardcover]

Bebe Moore Campbell (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd (May 7, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0434002860
• ISBN-13: 978-0434002863
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (48 customer reviews)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Flat & predictable, can this be the same Campbell?, July 19, 2000

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Ellen Isaacs (San Francisco Bay Area, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Singing in the Comeback Choir (Paperback)

The story is about Maxine, a black woman executive producer of a TV talk show who has a great life on the surface but is dealing with problems on several fronts. Her show is in danger of being cancelled. The grandmother who raised her, a famous singer from an earlier generation, has lost hope after she had a stroke. And she's still trying to forgive her otherwise wonderful husband Satchel for cheating on her.

This book disappointed me. When I read Campbell's "Your Blues Ain't Like Mine," I became a fan of her ability to bring to life many and varied characters, drawing out their different points of view. I was especially impressed with the way she helped you to understand the most unsympathetic of characters. In this book, and to a lesser degree her last one, "Brothers and Sisters," the characters seem one-dimensional and flat. The story is fairly predictable and, when everything works out just grand in the end, formulaic and unbelievable. The dialog is stiff, even telegraphic, especially the phone calls between Maxine and Satchel when Maxine is visiting her grandmother. The book was easy to breeze through, but in the end, it wasn't very satisfying.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Underdeveloped -Women of Color Book Club, Oct 26,01, November 16, 2001

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Women of Color Book Club (Clarksville, TN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Singing in the Comeback Choir (Paperback)

Not a page turner, Didn't develope the charcter enough.. Words on the page just layed their sounding dull like a couch potato. To many filler. We did enjoyed the parts when she discussed Maxine relationship with her husband Sachtel. But the story didn't go into enough infromation about why he had the affair. None the less the book had several really profound parts.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed, March 20, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Singing in the Comeback Choir (Paperback)

After 'Your Blues Ain't Like Mine' I was expecting something great from this talented writer. Unfortunately that was not the case. This book was predictable, dull, and could not capture my interest or attention. I, too, had to force myself to finish the book. Maxine's story with her husband, although poignant, was forced and too sugar-sweet. Very unrealistic. The author's desire to have an uplifting ending resulted in a diluted story with an all too familiar "give-back-to-the-community-message" that drowns out the REAL story in this novel.