Homeplace

by Anne Rivers Siddons

Book Overview

A successful New York journalist must confront the pains of her childhood when her father's illness forces her to return to her Georgian girlhood home in this new blockbuster novel from the acclaimed author of Heartbreak Hotel.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060157585
• ISBN13: 9780060157586
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

YOU SHOULDN'T MISS THIS ONE

Are Editorial Reviews written by people who get paid by the word? I find the summary on this book to be so overblown it's hard to understand just what the book is about.......And I've Read It! But I won't go into the plot yet again. I think you can get a general idea of what the story is about by simply reading the back of a softbound book or the jacket of a hardcover. You should know that Siddons writes for women. Men could never understand the emotions involved in her stories but women will find a piece of themself in each and every one of them. She writes stories that keep you reading simply because they are written well. I wouldn't recommend them for someone who wants a book to read in bits and pieces, here and there. By reading it in huge clumps you become drawn into the world she created for her characters and in the end, you'll crave more. This book sits on my home library shelves and will remain there, to be read over and over, for as long as I am able to read. You won't be disappointed if you enjoy a book that makes you feel emotion and a connection with the creative characters the author writes about. Sit down in that favorite chair of yours, tell everyone to leave you alone and get ready to meet the characters in HOMEPLACE.

She spoils me...

AR Siddons' books spoil me. When I finish one, I'm always disappointed in the next several fiction books I read unless they're hers. I've recently begun reading them a second time. I've just re-read Homeplace and enjoyed it more this time than I did the first.

Spellbinding Rivers Siddons

I have never read an author in her entirety who has continually amazed and enthraulled me with her skill as a story teller and a weaver of layered stories that unfold with one revelation after another. Anne Rivers Siddons writes in such a way that you feel, sweat, breath, smell, and live her stories right along with the characters...you become another character in the story almost. Her descriptions of the south are sensual, tactile, compelling, and ultimately, full of love for such a mysterious, and sometimes dark place. She truly understands and is able to paint portaites of people that we all know, in scenarios that we haven't thought of before perhaps...but in a way that you just can't walk away from these people. She's one of the most lyrical, and compelling authors of our time. More than a few of her books should be on the "modern classics" lists everywhere. If you are just discovering her...you are in for an absolutaly amazing ride. Enjoy!

Another Masterpiece.

Ms. Siddon's did it again. A very powerful, interesting novel. It was one I couldn't put down. Thank you for another great Novel.

A tear jerker you'll read again and again!

Daughters with strained relationships with their dads are not uncommon. Every woman can relate to Micah and her unknowing of her fathers love for her. She may stumble through her life but she learns so many lessons just by coming home. I want the book in hardcover to have forever and to pass on to my daughter. It made me understand my own father more