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Summary: 'black water' has never been that expressive
Review: A novel that is as mysterious as its title: like black water.
Illustrated with deep emotions, passion and thoughts Joyce Carol Oates gives us a chance to dive into a world which exists between death, future and hope. Seeing a person's life in flashback makes us wonder where the really important points in life are and how happiness, enthusiasm and death somestimes get blurred.
Melancholic, thought-provoking and fascinating: After a while you get familiar with the powerful writing and soak up the atmosphere.
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Summary: Sigmund Freud couldn't say it better...
Review: If you think that Joyce Carol Oates "Black Water" is scientific book about the pollution of the sea you are far from it! You will read about 160 pages just about the protagonist's death and get a deep insight of Kelly's soul. If you want or not you will get deep into the relationship between Kelly Kelleher, a 26 year old girl who has a sexual affair with a senator of the United States of America and you will see abysses in his mind you had never guessed to be there. Without saying it Joyce Carol Oates takes you in a highly interesting tragedy of love, reputation and slowly coming death. The leaning against the accident caused by a Kennedy in 1969 is obvious.
Take this book to get an insight in human souls and what happens with them on the threshold to death so realistic that Sigmund Freud would smile in his tomb. I am still fascinated about how detailed Joyce Carol Oates described Kelly's feelings just before her death and can still feel the anger that has been caused by mendacious Senator. So it was easy for me to give 5 stars to the best book about the death I have ever read.
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Summary: Black Water- fascinating till the last page
Review: When I read the first pages of the book I thougth that there
cannot be a book more boring. But I read on and some chapters
later I was totally absorbed by this exellently written novel.
Although the plot of the book can be compressed onto one or two
pages there are is so much information about politics and life. Oates manages it very well to let the reader participate in the
story and after the first chapters you can't stop reading
anymore. I would recommend this book to everyone who wants to
read a thrilling new novel with a story of outstanding tragic.
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Summary: Difficult for foreigners
Review: A great novel! I was impressed by the power of the words, the power of the feelings, the power of the whole book. Negative aspect: a little bit difficult to read for students of the high school from other countries with other languages as I am one. I think the language level is too high for students, so I suggest to read this book with good english skills only. But anyway: fascinating, interesting and in the end even exciting! You won't regret your choice!
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Summary: An amazing novel written with much tension
Review: The book is a powerful description of the accident that really happened. It accuratly shows the feelings of the strongminded young woman - losing hope at last - drowning in the car. The book will bring you down to the process of dying. Joyce Carol Oates combines death with other themes: Politics, power and love.
Don't read it before you go sleeping, otherwise you will get heavy nightmares.
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Summary: What is the value of life?
Review: Kelly Kelleher is caught in a submerged car, her only hope to survive is the Senator she got to know a few hours ago. While the water rises in the car she fight with desparation to stay alive.
This book is definite worth reading. Dive into the black water and live through your own near-death experience.
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Summary: A book to drown (in)
Review: Fate: A young woman's fate drowning in a submerged car, constructed around a plot possibly summed up on one page (or three in this book) resembling the tragic Chappaquddick incident.
When reading this, one is overwhelmed by Oates' narrative talent, being able to stretch the story throughout a 150-page book, using an exceeding stream-of-conscience. The story, however, lacks real character development. Depending on the contents, they are given no opportunity to go beyond their flat beings featured here.
The issues dealt with are mostly connected with the motif of power and its destructive as well as fate-determining impact on the people's lifes - at least provoking.
Interesting yet nothing else.
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Summary: Drowning in the "Black Water" - you will feel it yourself!
Review: This novel shows Kelly Kelleher drowning in the black water of a creek after a car accident with The Senator whom she met on a party that day. It tells again and again parts of her life while she is fighting for it trying to free herself out of the car. The accident is described many times but this repetitions are typical for the novel and every time we get more information about the accident itself and her life which is told by her thoughts and feelings.
It is not easy to read but once you get used to it is a great experience.
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Summary: Read and participate...
Review: A novel which deals with the accident of Chappaquiddick. Kelly Kelleher, a 26 year old woman, who meets the Senator at a party and dies in an accident caused by him. Although the book focuses on death, topics like power & politics, innocence or even the "American Dream" are also discussed. A very impressive book which lets you participate in the last moments of Kelly's life and her past.
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Summary: Feel the Death
Review: "Black Water" is one of the most exciting book I've ever read!Joyce Carol Oates involves the reader in an unbelievable way. Read the book and feal close to death!
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