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The Novelist von Angela Hunt
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The Novelist (2006. Auflage)

von Angela Hunt

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From the author who taught you to expect the unexpected...an intriguing tale about families, fiction, and what to do when life veers wildly off script. It begins...when a smug college student challenges a best-selling novelist to write something "more personal." It begins...when a mother finds her troubled son slumped unconscious outside her house. It begins...when fiction and reality blur, and the novelist finds herself caught somewhere in the middle of it all. Where does it end? That all depends on who is telling the story...… (mehr)
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Titel:The Novelist
Autoren:Angela Hunt
Info:Thomas Nelson (2006), Paperback, 322 pages
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Angela Hunt attempted a delicate tightrope between two stories that looked like it shouldn't work at first. I was amazed that it did. I was enthralled by the allegory in a way I didn't expect to be. The world building of Paradise was a bit quirky--and I desperately want to see a picture of a ditten. The characters were predictable since it was an allegory. I wasn't as emotionally connected to the characters, but I suppose that was because of the allegory dynamics as well.

Jordan couldn't quite wrap her head around her inability to make things better for her son. She was a fixer, and I loved that she worked through what was necessary to help Zack in the words, world, and structure of the allegory of Paradise. ( )
  gentlespirit512 | Nov 27, 2018 |
Well written and pertinent to today's issues. I thoroughly enjoyed it. ( )
  Lori12 | Jan 8, 2013 |
I love books about books so I picked this up. It’s for the same reason I love movies about movies or shows about shows. It makes me feel like I am in on the art-making process. This book ended up being a lot darker than I expected. And more about God. It is about a famous writer who is teaching a class in creative writing at the local community college. As a project, she is writing a new short story, very much unlike those she is famous for, so they can see the process. So the book we are reading flashes back and forth between the story of her life and that of the character she is creating. Her character also mirrors her son in many ways. He is an alcoholic so she is also dealing with that. And she turns to God to help her out. The book was interesting and I enjoyed reading it, but it wasn’t something I would run out and buy or recommend strongly for someone else to read. ( )
  BrianaJae | Sep 16, 2010 |
The writer on whom The Novelist is centered is one Jordan Casey Kerrigan, a woman who has become famous and wealthy due to the tremendous success of a James Bondish adventure series that everyone calls “The Tower series.” Kerrigan has found a formula that works and she is milking it for all it is worth. Part of that formula is that, largely due to the Jordan Casey pen name she has chosen for herself and the fact that she allows no pictures of herself on her book jackets, Kerrigan is presumed by her readers to be male rather than female.

When she agrees to teach a highly anticipated writing class at her local community college, her students are shocked to discover her true gender, and one student soon challenges her to write something outside the formulaic safety net she has created for herself. Determined to teach her students that a combination of hard work and a good plan will allow them to write their own novels, she agrees that she will do just that and will share the process with them as part of her class.

Things are not going nearly as well for Kerrigan at home as she hopes they will go in the classroom. Her youngest child and only son, 21-year old Zack, has dropped out of college and moved back home in an attempt to beat his addiction to alcohol and drugs. Kerrigan and her husband feel helpless as each of their attempts to help Zack change his life end up as just another frustrated failure. Desperate for something that will help her cope with her son’s problems, Kerrigan decides that she will write a novella for her class that might also help her get through to her son.

She decides to make the novella an allegory set in an otherworldly little town called Paradise, a town populated by innocents who, though they arrived as confused newcomers, have settled into a contented lifestyle. Things go well in Paradise until one newcomer, William, is faced with temptation and makes the wrong choice, a choice that makes it possible for evil to flourish in the town. Newcomer John arrives just when things in Paradise or at their worst and the town casino has become the source of ruin for citizen after citizen. John arrives with inside knowledge of the godlike Casey figure that most of the townspeople believe in, whether or not they admit it to themselves, and with offers of redemption for those who will accept them.

Kerrigan hopes that her son will identify with William, a young man who could not say no to temptation, and that he will get a message from the book that she cannot make him understand any other way. The chapters of The Novelist alternate between Kerrigan’s home life and the fictional world of Paradise, with much of what William is going through in Paradise a reflection on what Zack and his family are going through in the real world. The question is whether Zack will follow William’s example and find a solution for his despair and poor choices.

Angela Hunt has written an interesting novel but one whose message is delivered in a heavy-handed manner that lessens its impact. Her allegory is so straightforward that it demands little of the reader because of its predictability, a failing that steals much of the book’s emotion and potential suspense as it builds to a conclusion. The Novelist, as it is set up, can have only one ending, an ending that became obvious very early in the book, and Hunt offers very few surprises along the way. There was much potential in Hunt’s premise, but I do not believe that she delivered the book she wanted to deliver.

Rated at: 2.5 ( )
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From the author who taught you to expect the unexpected...an intriguing tale about families, fiction, and what to do when life veers wildly off script. It begins...when a smug college student challenges a best-selling novelist to write something "more personal." It begins...when a mother finds her troubled son slumped unconscious outside her house. It begins...when fiction and reality blur, and the novelist finds herself caught somewhere in the middle of it all. Where does it end? That all depends on who is telling the story...

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