Marie, Marie, Hold On Tight (Paperback)

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Review

"...sustains an energy from its first page to its last... penetrates harrowing depths of the human psyche." -- Walter Cummins, Managing Editor of The Literary Review, September, 2004

"..with its textured characters and deep, rich prose, Marie Marie reads like a poet's heart on fire." -- Justine Wilson, Author of Bloodangel, September 2004

A dark and disturbing read--and an absolutely hypnotic one. -- J. Eric Miller, Author of Animal Rights & Pornography, September 2004

Product Description

This magnificent novel, Marie, Marie, Hold on Tight (the title borrowed from Eliot's "The Wasteland") is dark, intense, impossible to put down. This book signifies the kind of literary work sadly ignored by the mainstream press and deserves a wide readership. Densely written, vivid in its characters, we have riveting suspense from an amazing writer offering brilliance and artistic nuance in a book that you'll never forget.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 181 pages
• Publisher: Lit Pot Press, Inc. (September 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0974391972
• ISBN-13: 978-0974391977
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,460,857 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I'm holding on tight to this book, November 7, 2004

By	Myfanwy Collins "Myfanwy" (New England) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Terri Brown-Davidson is a masterful writer. The crux of the narrative hinges on the uncompromising and out of control relationship between a mother and daughter. The potential darkness of mother love is brought to a whole new level by Marie's mother--we fear her, we despise her and yet we yearn for her and love her in the same way Marie does. The book delivers a hopefulness one can only feel when a young girl learns that her survival is not only inevitable but necessary.

I believe a story as dark and challenging as "Marie, Marie, Hold On Tight" is one we don't often get to see in today's marketplace. As I read I was reminded of another unflinching masterpiece, Tillie Olsen's "Yonnondio" and I was grateful that Dr. Brown-Davidson was brave enough to write with such clarity of vision.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Growing Up in a Waste Land, October 20, 2004

By	Bunny A. Goodjohn "www.bagoodjohn.blogspot.com" (Rustburg, Virginia.) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

A book I couldn't put down and ended up reading in one sitting. Its opening, with an image of the narrator painting and then a jump cut to her sleeping boyfriend gives me just enough information on the characters to give them life and to know their relationships to eachother without feeding me lots of backstory.

Marie is skillfully drawn. She wears her self-judged guilt like an aura, the force of which taints every aspect of her life from school to home, from public to private. The mother is terrifyingly real and the interaction between Marie and her mother is nightmarishly vivid and shocked me at the point of its hard revelation.

In fact, reading the book was a procession of shocks, all which served to keep me up reading rather than putting it down to read the following day.

I will never forget the image presented when Lissie is trying to hide in the log. Surprising and horrific.

Well done,Brown-Davidson.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply incredible piece of writing, November 6, 2004

By	David Veronese (Washington, DC USA) - See all my reviews

Terri Brown-Davidson is a writer possessed of certain genius. Her narrative inventiveness combined with her pyrotechnical writing skills make for a simply unbelievable brew of storytelling magic. Armed with a bag of verbal magic, Brown-Davidson is forced to elevate the English language to keep pace with her wondrous imagination. Familiar themes of familial abuse and dysfunction, misplaced love and the redeeming joys of art, are spun together in such a way as to adjust our notions of character and plot to accomodate the wizardry with which she spins them into a haunting parallel world that never ceases to entertain and amaze the reader.