Absolution

by Miriam Herin

Absolution is the story of Maggie Delaney, an idealistic wife and mother whose world implodes when her husband Richard is murdered in a botched convenience-store robbery. To her horror, Maggie learns... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0976096390
• ISBN13: 9780976096399
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Novello Festival Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Engrossing read

This book had me hooked from the very start. Many novels that attempt to weave in different parts of time seem to struggle to do it well, but the past and present connected seamlessly in this one. I love all of the contrasts...the protagonist's past and current selves, her pacifism and her husband's military history, and particularly the husband she thought she knew well and the husband who had secrets. There were some unexpected twists that were well explained, but the author never comes across as pedantic. Overall, I'd highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys an engrossing story.

A superb book

"Absolution" is superb. It's a wonderful and unusual combination of compelling story and character analysis that is extremely deep and thought provoking. I knew at a certain point I'd have to keep reading to finish it, no matter how late at night, and that's what happened. The book captures so well the epistemological and ethical limits in which we humans inevitably live, whether in the wartime of Vietnam or the United States of today. This is brilliant, wonderful writing. The book is superb.

Excellent book

Miriam Herin's "Absolution" is rich in everything that makes a novel a gripping, good read. Herin skillfully weaves a mystery that centers on a widow's struggle to find the truth behind her husband's violent death. It's a journey of the mind, winding its way through her husband's devastating past in Vietnam, the anti-war movement in the United States, and the swirling intricacies of lives steeped in both. Herin's characters are intriguing, her insight into grief and mending comfortingly real.

A Must Read

"Absolution" is a great story and interesting on so many levels including the era, the setting and the spiritual and psychological undertones. It is one of those books that makes me sad when I come to the end, because I want the story to continue. A must read for anyone who came of age in the 60s or who wants to understand the era.

A good read

I liked this book. The story is well written and full of enough suspense to keep you wanting to read on to find out what will happen next. I didn't want to put the book down once I had started to read it. It reveals some of the difficulties of the Vietnam War and the way it changed lives. It shows how we sometimes don't know each other as well as we think we do.