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Summary: When morning finally came...
Review: ...Ben Joe Hawkes left his hometown as unenlightened about his family as he was when he arrived. On top of that, he's got in his baggage a new/old love, who seemed to be adding to his confusion. This story could have gone in a number of directions. Personally, I would have liked to know more about Philip Hawkes, Ben Joe's deceased father, through the recollections of his mother, grandmother, and Philip's mistress, as well as the relationships between the three women. Perhaps then Ben Joe would have shed some light on his past, and we as readers would have more light on him and his future.
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Summary: Not nearly her best...
Review: A lukewarm early offering by a gifted novelist. The story concerns a young man trying to leave behind his home of six sisters, but I suggest you skip it altogether in favor of one of Tyler's later, and much better, offerings.
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Summary: Engaging and Realistic
Review: Anne Tyler wrote this novel with circumstantial details of the Hawkes. Specificity is always her strong point and her ability to depict the genuineness of human's emotions and actions. This novel shines in breaking down relationships between people,love,kinship and friendship. Ben Joe Hawkes,her protagonist is a chronic worrier who left home to study law in New York. He proclaimed himself as reversible and his bizzare habit of reading up-side-down.One day he made a phone call home and found out that one of his 6 sisters whom he haven't seen in 7 years returned home with a child. Apparently she left her husband... Being the sole male member (after his dad passed away)in the family of 8 women including his eccentric mother and grandmother,he felt responsible when such 'crisis' occurred. Ben Joe decided to make the trip back home to look into this matter plus he also have an unfinished business to attend to. Things began to unfold,he also learnt a few valuable lessons and even caught up with his old flame,Shelley from this fruitful trip home. Ben Joe eventually realised that his family are independent and each have a life of their own and he should to. I always admire Anne Tyler's conscientious writing style.This time she created a engaging and compelling family drama that illustrated the importance of family bonding, sharing,love and care,also finding your true self and the significance of what is leaving your family spread your wings and get your own life and not forgetting your root.
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Summary: Phenomenal!
Review: Ben Joe Hawkes has been surrounded by women his entire life. With his grandmother, mother,and all his sisters he has always felt like an outsider his life, plus he's a worrier. Ben Joe has come home after law school and surprisingly enough, this crazy visit to his childhood home send Ben Joe into an exhilarating battle with his own heart-where unforeseen love demands his surrender... Only a rarely talented novelist could have written this fine book! It's funny, serious, touching, zany, delightful, revealing and more!
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Summary: strangely affecting book
Review: I don't know why I picked up this book; I suppose it was because it's set in the past and most of my selections are present day. Almost in spite of myself, I found myself becoming engrossed in the lives of the Hawkes family, of Ben Joe and his sisters, his looney-tunes Grandma, and his reserved but strong-willed mother. It paints an exquisite picture of small-town Southern America in the early 60's. There's a lot more going on in Ben Joe's head than ever really happens in the book. It's a lot about what people let you see and what people try to hide. I enjoyed it. It makes me want to read more Tyler.
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Summary: strangely affecting book
Review: I don't know why I picked up this book; I suppose it was because it's set in the past and most of my selections are present day. Almost in spite of myself, I found myself becoming engrossed in the lives of the Hawkes family, of Ben Joe and his sisters, his looney-tunes Grandma, and his reserved but strong-willed mother. It paints an exquisite picture of small-town Southern America in the early 60's. There's a lot more going on in Ben Joe's head than ever really happens in the book. It's a lot about what people let you see and what people try to hide. I enjoyed it. It makes me want to read more Tyler.
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Summary: Did Morning Ever Come?
Review: I read this book for an assignment in my english II-C class. I liked this book but I have some complaints. I think that Anne Tyler should have went into a little more detail about Ben Joe's father. And I also think that she should of wrote more about Ben Joe and Shelly's life together. I liked how Anne used very specific details about how his family acted. It was a great bok I would recommend it to someone who likes a little of suspinse and a book that has a lot of thinking involved.
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Summary: Did Morning Ever Come?
Review: I read this book for an assignment in my english II-C class. I liked this book but I have some complaints. I think that Anne Tyler should have went into a little more detail about Ben Joe's father. And I also think that she should of wrote more about Ben Joe and Shelly's life together. I liked how Anne used very specific details about how his family acted. It was a great bok I would recommend it to someone who likes a little of suspinse and a book that has a lot of thinking involved.
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Summary: Women through the eyes of a clueless man
Review: If you understand that all the action and thought in the novel is through the main male character than you can understand the point of the novel better. Ben Joe feels responsible for the women in his life. He wants to take care of them, but he doesn't realize that they all are very strong and in control of their own destinies. Sometimes they are even in control of his. Once again Tyler is able to get us into the head of her character and what a foggy place that can be!
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Summary: Women through the eyes of a clueless man
Review: If you understand that all the action and thought in the novel is through the main male character than you can understand the point of the novel better. Ben Joe feels responsible for the women in his life. He wants to take care of them, but he doesn't realize that they all are very strong and in control of their own destinies. Sometimes they are even in control of his. Once again Tyler is able to get us into the head of her character and what a foggy place that can be!
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