Winter's Daughter: The Saying of Signe Ragnhilds-Datter [Paperback]

Charles Whitmore (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Avon Books (Mm) (December 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0380701170
• ISBN-13: 978-0380701179
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,954,420 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent debut novel--quite unlike any other, March 4, 2006

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Raegan Butcher (Rain City, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Winter's Daughter: The Saying of Signe Ragnhilds-Datter (Paperback)

This book, despite the rather silly cover, is very close to being a masterpiece. I wasn't quite sure what to think of its attempt to tell a mythic tale of survival in Africa, America, and Norway after a nuclear war but as soon as i started reading it I found myself completely engrossed. The whole thing is written in a unique collquial dialect that i found to be incredibly entertaining. Its hard to describe the qualities that make up Winter's Daughter--it is an adventure story, a keen look into psychology, philosophy and religion, politics, war--the scope of this novel is breathtaking. High schools should teach this book instead of Nathanial Hawthorne, who could bore a statue to sleep! I don't know what Charles Whitmore is doing these days but he accomplished something quite powerful and memorable with his first novel. I am going to recommend this to a lot of people and I am going to give it as a gift to my own daughter.