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  • Paperback: 464 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Books; Reprint edition (January 19, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0143038575
  • ISBN-13: 978-0143038573
  • Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 1 x 8.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (51 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsEpic, intimate novel
By Santiago Lafcadio on February 7, 2006
Format: Hardcover
This novel of four generations of women is so intricately structured that they all seem to be living at one time, together, fighting, arguing, loving, digging deeply into what becomes a history shared by the living and the dead.

Hannah's journals from over a hundred years ago are astounding, so full of life and curiosity and sensual, doomed love that you think she's sitting there reading them to you herself. And that there hasn't been a more compelling character in literature for ages. ("I wanted nothing but to break the barriers," she writes--and does she!) Yet when her daughter, Bassie, starts to talk, and snarl, and argue, you feel she's worthy of Dickens. Bassie and Meg go at each other with a kind of vicious tenderness that only blood and family can bring to bear.

And the men...the men these women love. All are strong. All are deeply flawed. And each is worthy of the passion he inspires. Hannah's yearnings in particular are so intense that she finds them "despotic in the night" (lovely phrase, never mind how apt in terms of the novel's title) and must send herself literally into exile from her desire. Meg, who lives in, and must try to emerge from, the shadow of the women she was born from ("she felt a need to be rid of the past, unwillingly captured by it"), falls in love like the cerebral, conflicted character she is, hesitantly, confusedly, compellingly.

THE NIGHT JOURNAL combines the sweep of an epic with the intimacy of a love story. It has horrendous train wrecks (you want to turn your eyes away) and appalling massacres and monumental feats of engineering and intricate details of archeology and beautiful scenery in the midst of which its characters fall into forbidden, tragic love.

Elizabeth Crook has attempted, and accomplished, a vastly ambitious work of fiction. You will lose yourself in this book, and in the process find a precious, unforgettable work of narrative art.
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5.0 out of 5 starsFascinating read!
By Cook and Baker on February 11, 2007
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If you enjoy story lines that connect the contemporary world with its history, read this book. The characters, both modern and turn of the twentieth century, will engage you and move you. The history is well integrated into the story line, and I found myself completely swept up in the lives and events that unfold in this very well told story.

The author reveals so much of the pain and conflict that accompanied the growth of the American southwest and relates it to individuals as well as to politics, environment, and the study of the past through journals, letters, and archeology. A moving love story, family saga, political expose--a great read. If you like this one, you will also like A Map of Love, by Adhaf Soueif, which uses similar devices to explore these themes in the setting of Egypt.
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5.0 out of 5 starsThoroughly absorbing fiction......
By Laurel Johnson on August 9, 2006
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Meg Mabry is a 37-year-old biomedical engineer devoted to her work maintaining dialysis equipment. Her love life is less than spectacular. Meg suffers migraines and has dissociated herself from life in general in an attempt to maintain some sort of control. Over-shadowing everything Meg does is her domineering maternal grandmother, Claudia Bass, known as Bassie to her fans. Bassie is a respected author and historian, a once beautiful woman still trying to paint a fresh face over her wrinkled one. Documenting her mother Hannah's life from journals has always been Bassie's raison d'etre. Nina Witte is Meg's much-married mother. Being between husbands is a chronic condition for Nina. Bassie raised Meg because Nina's alcoholism and penchant for men interfered with child rearing.

Bassie is curmudgeonly, opinionated, and demanding. She resents her advanced age and failing health and focuses much of that resentment on Meg. Meg grudgingly juggles her job and Bassie's needs but stubbornly refuses to do the one thing that would please her grandmother - read Hannah Bass's journals about life in New Mexico. When Bassie is forced to travel to her birthplace in New Mexico, she asks Meg to accompany her.

Meg refuses at first but finally gives in. Bassie would drive a saint to drink, but despite her pretenses to the contrary, Meg loves her. What both women discover in New Mexico alters their world in stunning ways.

In New Mexico, voices from the past seem more real than those in the present. In fact, the present seems like a pale imitation of life when Meg finally starts reading Hannah Bass's journals. Hannah was a woman of sensuality and strength, a skilled chronicler of life in the Desert Southwest and Victorian era.Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsHistory trumps romance
By Roger Brunyate TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on July 27, 2007
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There are at least two stories here. One is that of Hannah Troy Bass, who came to New Mexico in the 1890s and left a series of journals which, as edited by her daughter Claudia ("Bassie"), became famous as an authentic record of frontier life. The other is the present-day tale of the now-elderly Bassie returning to New Mexico with her thirty-something granddaughter Meg to supervise some archaeological excavations around her mother's old home. For a long time, the older story is more interesting than the modern one; Hannah's voice speaks from the page with an immediacy that makes Meg pale by comparison. It is clear that a lot of research has gone into this, and the reader is caught up in historical events as in the trivia of daily life.

About halfway through the book, there is a gear change and the modern story takes center stage. But the transition is poorly handled, many of the revelations are predictable, and the genre shifts uncomfortably between historical novel, romance, mystery story, and -- perhaps most interesting -- a study of the bonds and tensions within families. These may be too many balls for the author to juggle. I found myself getting interested in Meg and her feelings only to end in frustration, and the final sections of Hannah's journal make for very unpleasant reading that no amount of plot resolution can make palatable.

One can understand the recent popularity of books that confront present-day characters with records from a past age.* The device expands the scope and implications of the novel, allowing the author to write about people whose lives have something in common with those of the readers, without reducing the whole action to a humdrum level.Read more ›
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I live in the area talked about in this book. Reading about Hannah, Bessie and Meg in the historical sites near my home was fascinating.

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A beautifully and intelligently crafted story. Elizabeth Crook is a terrific writer.

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I passed this book on and have gotten rave reviews from friends about this book. Very intrigueing and entertaining for adults.

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5.0 out of 5 starsR.good read!

I r. enjoyed reading this book for our book club selection here in Rockport, TX. Interesting characters and after all is said and done fit psychologically. Well done Ms. Crook!

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After several chapters, I realized I was reading a book about frustrated women. They were frustrated in their work, their love life, in just about every category. Read more

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I was reluctant to read this book but became totally engrossed in the characters and the history entwined in their stories. Read more

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I loved this book. I am very familiar with the Pecos area and have spent many hours at the ruins so this book is special to me. Read more

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