Your Oasis on Flame Lake [Unabridged, Audiobook] [Audio Cassette]

Lorna Landvik (Author)

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Recorded Books; Unabridged edition (1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 078872004X
• ISBN-13: 978-0788720048
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.1 x 2.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (40 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,194,677 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Lorna Landvik is also the author of the bestselling Your Oasis on Flame Lake and Patty Jane's House of Curl. She has worked as an actor, a comedian, and a speed typist in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. She lives with her husband, two daughters, and their dog, Petunia.

Customer Reviews

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Life in White Falls Minnesota, July 25, 2000

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Roz Levine - See all my reviews

This review is from: Your Oasis on Flame Lake (Ballantine Reader's Circle) (Paperback)

Your Oasis on Flame Lake is the story of two families, the Lindstroms and the Herreras, living out the American dream in White Falls, Minnesota. Except, the dream is going over a few mid-life bumps in the road, leaving family members dissatisfied, hurt and confused. That is, until a catastrophic event in the Herrera family, brings all their lives back down to earth. This story is narrated by different family members and each brings a different perspective to the turbulent happenings surrounding them. Though never maudlin or overly emotional, Ms Landvik tells a strong, powerful story of love, loss, betrayal and forgiveness. Her writing is funny and witty with great incite and wisdom. Her characters, interesting and true to life, speak from the heart. This is a story that pulls you into the lives of these people and keeps you rooting for them until the climax and very satisfying end of the book. A story about the strong bonds of friendship and a wonderful slice of midwestern life.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Emotional, affecting study of 2 families facing adversity, March 29, 2001

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Carol S. (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Your Oasis on Flame Lake (Ballantine Reader's Circle) (Paperback)

I liked Lorna Landvik's first book, "Patty Jane's House of Curl," but "Your Oasis on Flame Lake" is even better. BiDi and Dev have been friends since high school; now they are married, with kids, and still living in their small Minnesota hometown. "Your Oasis" tells of the crises each faces within the short frame of a year or so: infidelity, a violent attack on BiDi's daughter, an addiction to pills, and more (I don't want to spoil the plot). There's a lot packed into the book, but Landvik skillfully shows the emotional impact of these events on both families. Landvik states in the reader's guide (at the back of the book) that she considers this a more thoughtful and less emotion-driven book than "Patty Jane"; but I think "Your Oasis" also benefits from its contemporary setting and the more compressed time period ("Patty Jane" takes place over a much longer period of years). The characters are believable and very real, like people you know. The dialogue is particularly well-done and rings true. Once you get a few pages in, it's a hard book to put down: smart, funny, touching "chick lit" that is a refreshing change from the urban professional scene of the post-Bridget-Jones genre.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Landvik just keeps getting better!, June 18, 1999

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Dianna Johnston "Compulsive Reader" (Joplin, MO) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Your Oasis on Flame Lake (Ballantine Reader's Circle) (Paperback)

I really really REALLY liked this book. Lorna Landvik is incredibly funny and talented and this book is her monument. I loved her quirky and endearing characters, especially Dick and Darcy--they cracked me up! YOUR OASIS was a better read for me than PATTY JANE, although the latter was a great book as well. I can't wait for her next release in September. I will be the first in line.