A World Too Wide

by Gregory McDonald

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0940595079
• ISBN13: 9780940595071
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Hill & Company Publishers
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

My favorite book of all time...

The philosophy within this book may be getting a bit dated, but I still find it full of beautiful truths. It's a wonderfully crafted story -- whenever I finish (I've read it about fifty times at least), I turn to the beginning and start again until life ("You're reading that book AGAIN?!") requires that I put the book down. There is a beautiful "interconnectedness of all things" that drives you through the story to the end -- how did the bride and groom meet and who are all these people to each other and can old wounds and loose ends be tied up by this strange gathering of people from the four corners of the earth to a farm in Tennessee... And where will they go from here -- youth grabbing hold of the good things of this older generation and giving some hope that those ideals will carry on into the future. You witness the characters being slowly painted in to create an intricate tapestry with lots of interwoven threads.There is no stress to this story. There are interesting questions, but the "happy ending" is assured from the beginning, which makes it a wonderful story with which to relax and unwind. The end scenes are so beautiful, to me, that every time I wish I had been there to hear this great jazz pianist on his "limousine" piano finally discovering that even without his long-time saxophone playing partner he has a lot to say with just the piano, and have to remind myself, it's fiction, it didn't really happen.So, maybe the various "waxing philosophical" sections won't speak to you, but the people themselves, especially 16-year-old Josh, definitely will. My greatest sadness is that I cannot find the subsequent parts of this four-part series. I think this is a seriously overlooked book -- that perhaps the author was painted into a box labeled "Fletch" and this departure was not appreciated. I found my copy through a used bookstore -- a library discard.