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Never
Change
by Elizabeth Berg
Book #199 - Price US$
4.50
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This paperback book is in very good to like new
condition. Pages are all intact, crisp and clean, looks like it has been
read only once or twice. No stains, pages are not yellow from age. There is
NO creasing along the spine and slight shelf wear along the edges. 240 pages
long. 2002 edition. ISBN 0743411331. Additional pictures of condition are
always available.
BOOK DESCRIPTION:
Elizabeth Berg has a single great gift as a novelist. She
creates heroines who are stuck and unhappy, yet deeply sympathetic. This may
seem like an easy trick to pull off, but it's not. Think about it: usually
when a character is mired in a problem--especially a problem stemming from
her own reluctance to change, or fear of commitment, or lack of
identity--the reader is ready within a few dozen pages to shout, "Pull
yourself together!" and set the book aside. In contrast, Berg's characters
seem like enjoyable challenges: problems with actual solutions.
In Never Change, Berg uses her gift to great advantage. Middle-aged Myra
Lipinsky describes herself as "the one who sat on a folding chair out in the
hall with a cigar box on my lap selling tickets to the prom, but never
going." And despite a flourishing career as a visiting nurse, she feels as
much an also-ran as ever. As the novel begins, in fact, high school seems to
be rearing its ugly head again: Chip Reardon, the heartthrob of Myra's
youth, has returned to town to live with his parents. Chip is dying from a
brain tumor, and Myra becomes his nurse. Berg is not the kind of writer to
lay bare the unsettling power dynamics of such a situation. Instead, Chip
and Myra become friends and, well, learn how to love each other. It's a
testament to the author's strong sense of character that we actually
believe--and what's more, care about--Myra's emergence from her emotional
cocoon. And the book is full of nice details, like this snapshot of children
being read to at a library, "rising up on their knees to see the pictures,
resting their hands unselfconsciously on those ahead of them so that they
would not lose their balance." Such careful observations, recounted in
Myra's voice, make us believe that she is a character worth knowing, and
worth saving.
A photo gallery of pictures from this book is shown below
as well as a description of the pictures. Any questions please
email me
aldergrove@ppowner.com
   
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09/06/08
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