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Author:	Eliza Minot	Format:	Paperback
Publisher:	Vintage Books	ISBN-10:	037570633X
Edition Description:	Reprint	ISBN-13:	9780375706332
Educational Level:	--	Product Type:	--
Publication Year:	2000	Subject:	--
Language:	English	Condition:	Good

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A debut novel, told from the point of view of an 8-year-old, the youngest child in a family whose lives are devastated by the death of the mother in a car crash.
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Series:	Vintage Contemporaries Series

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Length:	257 pages
Height:	8.0 in.
Width:	5.3 in.
Thickness:	0.8 in.
Weight:	8.0 oz.

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Grieving over the death of her mother, killed in a winter car accident in Massachusetts, young Via Revere copes with her anguish and loss by vividly recalling the events of the day her mother died. A first novel.
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"[A] plucky, winning, occasionally troubling first novel....Via's voice grows more or less sophisticated as narrative events require. If pressed, I would have to count this indeterminacy of voice a flaw....As flaws go, however, it's far from devastating....[A]fter a while, the reader stops quibbling, surrenders to Via's story, and enjoys it." Eugenides "[A] shining poetic evocation of a child's experience of the loss of her mother....But so intense are Via's explorations of her senses that they eventually grow faintly tedious in their repetition...Moreover, in two intrusive chapters, one at the beginning, the other near the end, Ms. Minot introduces an outside narrator to describe Via's plight....This added note of pity feels gratuitous to the point of sentimentality. The attitude seems to be further reflected in the novel's title, which appears to rub in unnecessarily the protagonist's vulnerability. Yet much is redeemed by the novel's ending, where Via applies the lesson that intense recollection has taught her." Lehmann-Haupt "THE TINY ONE reads like an excellent expanded writing exercise. It's barely a novel, and it's certainly not an investigation of consequential topics such as loss and grief....Eliza Minot clearly has talent and promise as a writer, but I hope she'll cast a wider net next time." Boyd "The first-person voice of young Via...is perfectly authentic: You will have not the slightest doubt that you are listening to a little girl tell about her life and the days leading up to her mother's death in a car accident. What makes THE TINY ONE very much a first novel is that a more experienced writer would probably realize her readers will get a bit weary of Via's babbling very soon....Too often in this otherwise promising first novel, we ache to tell dear little Via that perhaps a 'time out' might be in order." Wiegand "Minot's narrative occasionally falters...but her prose bristles with vivacity, and her account...is never sentimental." New Yorker (11/29/1999)

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The Tiny One: A Novel

Eliza Minot

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Binding:	Paperback
Book Condition:	Good
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ISBN:	037570633X
Publication Date:	2000-10-17
Publisher:	Vintage

Pages:	272
Height:	0.6500 inches
Width:	5.2100 inches
Weight:	0.4400 pounds

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