About this title: Now available in a handsome trade paperback edition, this timeless classic of a romance between two ghosts who must fight to remain cognizant of what life and love once were--and still are--is a love story that transcends all love stories and a ghost story that transcends all ghost stories. Funny and heartwarming, it's perfect for young readers ...
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Del Rey
Date Published: 1982-03-12
ISBN-13:9780345300812ISBN:0345300815
Description: Good. Paperbacks are previously owned. They are all in readable condition. They may have previous owners stamps, labels or names written or on them. The covers and spine may have creasing from previously being read. The corners may be bumped and there may be a small number of bent pages. Older books may have fading/discoloration due to light exposure. * read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Ballantine
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780345276278ISBN:0345276272
Description: Sweet, Darrell. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. NF. 256 p. 1978 paperback edition from Ballantine. NEAR FINE. Darrell Sweet cover art. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Del Rey
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780345300812ISBN:0345300815
Description: Sweet, Darrell. Good. No dust jacket as issued. VG. 256 p. 1982 paperback edition from Del Rey. VERY GOOD. Darrell Sweet cover art. read more
Edition: Tenth printing, Mar. 1982
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Del Rey Books
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780345300812ISBN:0345300815
Description: Sweet, Darrell (Cover art) Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Bright, solid and unmarked. Some edgewear to cover & slight lean to spine. Mass market (rack) paperback. 256 p. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
"This should be a melancholy book with all the talk of death, wasted lives, and lost loves. Yet Peter S. Beagle can inject charm into a pickle and in doing so, lifts this tale into a amazing look at our attempts to find meaning and love. Mr. Rebeck wandered into a cemetery 20 years ago and now lives there avoiding the living and only finding company with the ghosts and a raven. Michael and Laura has recently died but are struggling with both their deaths and their past lives...and their feelings for each other. There are some pretty heavy themes going on here but in Beagles' hand they slide effortlessly through the pages and never fails to give me a feeling of awe over the beauty of his prose and passion of his ideas. Have a handkerchief ready at the end of this one."
"2.5 stars. I think it's better than The Last Unicorn, for whatever that's worth, and I suspect I might like this one more when I'm older.
Or perhaps not. Some of the plot contrivances seem awfully convenient, and I don't know that I buy any aspect of the ending. But then I suppose the plot isn't really the point... and so I have to punt it back to "maybe I'll like it better when I'm older." It's possible."
"Perhaps some of the most beautifully written passages ever. A most unlikely book which combines a homeless man....who lives in a cemetery....is fed by a raven which also brings him the newspaper....who communicates with the 'newly dead'....and strikes up a relationship with a widow who regularly visits her husband's grave... Now if THAT isn't the recipe for NOTHING, I don't know what is....but it is a thoroughly enjoyable book with some of the most memorable writing you will ever encounter. Trust me on this one!"
"I sort of agree with some of what they talk about in this book. They talk about how the spirit leaves the body,and the body no longer matters. But I don't agree that these spirits felt constrained by the person they were in life, even in death. If it is possible that we could be reincarnated, then how would our spirit continue existing within these constraints? I think this review they mentioned - about love beyond the grave - that's not the real point of the book. I think the real point was teaching the living man to reach out to humankind and not be afraid any longer. He had avoided the living for so long that to some degree, he himself was dead inside. He was not living - thus part of him was dead. Yet his body would not let him die yet - so instead he bided his time, talking to dead people and wishing he was one of them, instead of going and searching out peace for his own heart.
So the point of this book was that the living man learned from the spirits about love and life, so that he could live again. Not a bad story."
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