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Loading... Sleep Toward Heavenpor Amanda Eyre Ward
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adorará Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se gostará deste livro. Excellent little book about the victim and the perb. I thought it showed the side of victim within the perb and visa-versa exceptionally well. (  ) irisrose | Jun 26, 2009 |  I did not catch that twist coming in the end. I like it when an author can trick me like that. (  ) TanyaReads | Dec 14, 2008 | i actually finished this book days ago, and the delay in posting this review is indicative of how much of an impression it made on me; i simply forgot to think about it. a novel set largely within the context of the criminal justice system and its periphery. i suspect it was meant to be a commentary on capital punishment, but failed to make a powerful statement of any sort. i was unimpressed by the author's voice and was unmoved by her subject matter, though portions of the text were certainly incendiary. an easy read, not worth the effort of not finishing. arouse77 | Sep 27, 2008 | Throw away your preconceptions about reading about death row inmates and pick up this book! Sleep Toward heaven is a funny and touching novel in which inmates with nicknames like "Satan Killer" and "The Hairdresser of Death" become real women with real names: Sharleen, Veronica, Samantha, Karen. The intersection of the lives and sorrows of the three main characters-- inmate Karen; Celia, the widowed wife of one of Karen's victims; and Dr. Franny, the prison doctor--will make you laugh and will make you cry. ( ) megwaiteclayton | May 10, 2008 | This is a beautiful book about the lives of three women becoming interwoven, despite each being somewhat lost and solitary. The characters are absolutely sympathetic and believable, and the story will touch you and make you laugh at times. The plot moves quickly, and in the end this is one of those books you'll have a hard time putting down, and want desperately to pick up again. It's not short, but I was forced (by the story and characters) to read it in one sitting. I'd recommend it. (  ) whitewavedarling | Jan 21, 2008 |  sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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Amanda Eyre Ward's debut novel is an intimate portrait of three women whose lives collide during a brutal Texas summer.
In Gatestown, Texas, twenty-nine-year-old Karen Lowens awaits her execution with a host of convicted serial killers on death row. In Manhattan, Dr. Franny Wren, also twenty-nine, tends to a young cancer patient, and resists the urge to run from her fiancé and her carefully crafted life. In Austin, Texas, brassy Celia Mills, a once-vibrant librarian, mourns her murdered husband.
Over the course of the summer, fate pushes these eerily recognizable women together, culminating in a revelation of the possibility of faith, the responsibility of friendship, and the value of life. Sleep Toward Heaven is a luminous story of murder and desire, solitude and grace -- a rare literary page-turner where redemption seems perpetually within arm's reach.
(retirado da Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:22 -0400)
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