Pieces of Dreams

by Charlotte Vale Allen

Book Overview

There are the visible flaws and the not-so-visible flaws, but everyone has them -- or thinks they do. In the case of Caley Burrell, her flaws are very visible. Being sent face-first through the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425075826
• ISBN13: 9780425075821
• Release Date: February 1985
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Length: 325 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Old favorite

I read this one years ago, when I lived in the US. I recently started thinking about it and wanted to read it again. I'm looking forward to it.

Very Special

This is my 15th of Ms. Charlotte's 37 (?) wonderful novel's and I plan to get through them all as she is a wonderful author. I hope she does a sequel of this one, especially Martin who is the most wonderful man in Literature. He is sooo sweet and lovable. I wonder how Ms. Vale Allen thinks up all her various plots and stories??? I only wish I had her talent.

Exquisite!

This is a novel so grounded in painful, yet humorous, reality that it is positively gripping. Following the separate paths of Caley Burrell and Martin Maddox, the reader travels along with the two central characters, waiting for that moment when their paths intersect. And when they do, the physically shattered Caley and the recovering alcoholic Martin are funny and touching and tentative. This is a book about losses and about the possibility of small gains; it's about how fate will send you flying through the windowshield of a car, causing you to become horribly disfigured; it's about how an alcoholic can lose everyone he loves, regain them, get sober, and, even then, having done everything right, suffer unthinkable losses. That these two unlikely people find each other is surprising, and wonderful, and completely believable. A lovely, thoughtful book that delves far below the surface to find what is really important, really valuable, in human interchange. Don't miss this! It's a gem.