Under Plum Lake [Paperback]

Lionel Davidson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1985

A young boy is ushered into a subterranean world where he encounters a civilization and kingdom unlike anything above ground.

--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Bantam Books (Mm) (October 1985)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0553253727
• ISBN-13: 978-0553253726
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,154,892 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lasting Impressions from Under Plum Lake, May 13, 2002

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"kaypecks" (PA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Under Plum Lake (Hardcover)

This has been my favorite book ever since I first read it almost ten years ago. I've read it at least a dozen times - more than I've read anything else. It is an incredibly imaginative, dream-inspiring story that creates the world of Egon, a fantastic place where people visit Pleasure Dromes to experience the Universe, eat ragusa plums and stardew, drink silver-maroon tigra, and develop their minds much more than does humanity. The earth's ocean floor becomes the sky and people travel on rainbows using magnetism.

Davidson creates a world that people can easily identify with, but that is thoroughly unique and different from our world; and while Egon is incredibly fantastic, Davidson makes it believable - as though it really exists - which makes the book more enjoyable, because we feel like we can actually escape into its secret world. *Under Plum Lake* is a book that will remain with me for the rest of my life.

*Under Plum Lake* can be enjoyed by children and adults alike, on either a lighthearted level or a deeper philosophical level -- for in addition to exploring a fantastical world (from the view of a young human boy), the book ponders knowledge, life, time, perception and deception, sanity, memory, existence, humanity, and the universe... or, to borrow a phrase from Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker series (also really good), *Under Plum Lake* ponders "life, the universe, and everything."

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book should NOT be out-of -print, April 14, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Under Plum Lake (Paperback)

This book is truly a classic - no other book from my childhood meant so much to me. It is not just a kiddies book - there is so much in there for adults too: Kids read it as a fantasy, adults as an allegory - I have read it as both. I am lucky enough to have my old (tatty) copy of it and I re-read it at least once a year and dip into it regularly - it is like a meditation.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars complete enchantment, January 22, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Under Plum Lake (Paperback)

One of the previous reviewers expressed a wish that they had never returned the book to the library. I didn't return the book and that is why today, many years later, I have a copy.This is not meant to condone stealing from libraries but hopefully illustrates how powerful and profound this book's effect can be. It is a haunting text, that lingers in your imagination. It is both strange and new, and disturbingly familiar. Read it and discover the far off memories it stirs in you.