Written with the subtlety and beauty that won extravagant praise for "These Granite Islands," this new work is a love story about a woman torn between her past and her future, and caught in the middle of a choice that could ruin, or transform, her life.
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Written with the subtlety and beauty that won extravagant praise for "These Granite Islands," this new work is a love story about a woman torn between her past and her future, and caught in the middle of a choice that could ruin, or transform, her life.
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Add this copy of The Ice Chorus: a Novel to cart. $1.78, fair condition, Sold by Once Upon A Time Books rated 2.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Tontitown, AR, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by Little, Brown and Company.
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Add this copy of The Ice Chorus to cart. $1.99, very good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Atlanta rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Austell, GA, UNITED STATES, published 2009 by Alma Books.
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Add this copy of The Ice Chorus: a Novel to cart. $1.99, very good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Dallas rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by Little, Brown and Company.
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Add this copy of The Ice Chorus to cart. $4.92, very good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Atlanta rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Austell, GA, UNITED STATES, published 2009 by Alma Books.
If I had read the plot synopsis of "The Ice Chorus" before picking it up, I probably would not have taken it home from the library. This would have been a shame, because the synopsis leads one to think the book is a by-the-numbers romance, which is it not. As it was, however, I was wandering the "S" shelves in the library stacks and was struck by the cover design. I read the first page and liked the writing style, so I added it to my "check out" pile.
This is one of those nice accidents that I wish would happen more often. Sarah Stonich's writing is sensuous and rich with detail. She clearly loves to drown the reader in sensory images. While this is not a style I demand of every author I read, every once in a while it's nice to delve into work like this that gives that specific part of the imagination a workout.
I will admit that Stonich almost lost me mid-novel, however. As I mentioned before, this work is sort of masquerading as a predictable romance, and there is some exposition that I originally took to be the meat of the story. Take a neglected wife, a tropical setting, and a handsome painter. Add to that the difficulty of reading about the breakdown of a marriage through adultery, and I began to have doubts about the quality of the book. I am glad I kept reading, however, because Stonich's story is much more honest and original than that. Really it deals with the protagonist's need to come to terms with hardships from her past and allow these old, hardened feelings to come to the surface, hopefully to be broken up by the process of exposure. I'll keep an eye out for Stonich's work in the future.
