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| Ghost Dance | 
 enlarge | Author: Carole Maso
Publisher: Ecco
Category: Book
List Price: $14.00
Buy Used: $0.01
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.8
ISBN: 0880014091
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780880014090
Publication Date: June 1, 1995
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Condition: A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company.
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 One of the best books I've ever read. September 30, 2008
Yes, it's all here. This book stands up, time and time again. I first read this in 1995, when I owned a bookstore and a customer ordered it from me. I was taken with the jacket and looked closer. I was taken in, sideswiped by what language can do. I've read every Carole Maso book since, but none compares to this for me. Memory, longing, family, identity, and the white sadness that holds it all together. Such a shame that this is out of print when there is pure junk going into its fifteenth printing stacked to the ceiling at Borders. I should have been born in another place and time, when books like this were things you could build a life around.
Buy this and read it. She is a master.
 A song of grief November 26, 2001
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Vanessa is a young woman drifting through her memories and imagination, while struggling to come to terms with her mother's death. Her mother was a famous poet whose private spiral into madness held the family together as it forced each person into her/his own separate world. After her mother's tragic death, Vanessa's often-silent father disappears and her brother shifts from place to place, sending cryptic postcards to his sister. Even Vanessa's mother's lover Sabine seems unable to embrace her own grief. Through it all, Vanessa struggles to resurface through the pain, through the family dysfunctions, through the wavering and tenuous hold on reality. She struggles to come back to living and not plummet into madness like her mother. Carole Maso's amazing and brilliantly woven story plumbs the depths of grief in a style totally her own. Swinging from reality to memory to imagination, Maso charts Vanessa's mental state as she climbs back to living. I was often reminded of Virginia Woolf's works while reading, and found myself wondering about possible connections. "Ghost Dance" is truly a book to behold.
A lovely and haunting pomo classic. June 29, 1999
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I first read this book in the eighties and was literally haunted by it. After reading Defiance this winter, I went back and reread it--and wasn't disappointed. It's all here--the cold war, the world's fair, the theme of madness and redemption, the wonderfully cadenced sentence--and Maso reinvents the orphan's search for the mother. She does for mothers and daughters what (too) many male authors have done with the lost father/lost son.
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