The Marvelous Secrets: Stories by Marian Coe

by Marian Coe

Book Overview

MARVELOUS SECRETS is a rich variety of stories from a southern-voiced novelist, Marian Coe, who writes from heart aboaut places and human hopes.More than one "marvelous secret" believes fiction can... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0963334182
• ISBN13: 9780963334183
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: Southlore Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Key To A Cottage

I couldn't put it down!Coe's voice rings absolutely true as she uses journal, letters, narrative to draw her character. Coe is a superb storyteller in her prime!

Marvelous Secrets Revealed

If you like a book that leaves you wanting to spend more time with its characters, who've become comfortable friends in the parallel universe of your imagination, put Marvelous Secrets on your immediate reading list! Each story reveals another recognizable yet obscured layer of the human experience, so that by the end of the last chapter, you feel that you know and like yourself better for having read the book.

Marvelous Secrets Lives Up to its Title

An enchanting book. Each story left me eager to for the next. Local Color proved to be a nostalgic visit through a shop of treasures. It brought back memories of past week-end trips. Marvelous Secrets takes you into a Boston bookshop where there are walls of "marvelous secrets," and a very insightful story that illustrates "fate forces choice and choice becomes fate."Gifts to be Delivered makes you regret all the times you have jumped to a conclusion without checking the facts.Every story had a different theme and charm. The illustrations were beautiful and I found this book very enjoyable. It is the perfect present for a mother, aunt, close friend, or any woman who enjoys curling up with a cup of tea and good book.

Stories of wit and realism by an impressive literary talent.

Marian Coe has a native ability for writing stories that immediately hook the reader's attention and won't let go from first to last. Marvelous Secrets is a new anthology of her short stories filled with wit, realism, and memorable characters. Included are Local Color; All The Time There Is; Marvelous Secrets; Concessions; Homecoming; Bushes; Moon Lady; Waiting At The Matterhorn; Another Spring For Tulips; Gifts To be Delivered; The Healer; Pretty Is As Pretty Does; The Sentencing; Visit To A New Improved Jungle; Voices And Place; and excerpts from her novels "Eve's Mountain" and "Legacy". Marvelous Secrets is the perfect vehicle to introduce a major and impressive literary talent to a new generation of delighted readers.