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At the age of 6, while standing in a field observing a minute's silence for the death of King George IV, Mary Ward realized she was not a little girl. "That was a mistake," she said to herself. "She was a boy." Where this realization takes Mary is the ostensible subject of Sacred Country, although British writer Rose Tremain (author of The Way I Found Her) so lovingly treats the bleak town of Swaithey, England, where Mary grows up, and the people around her that the novel eddies out to encompass the town and times. With a steady eye, Tremain describes the harsh circumstances of Mary's early life and her disconnection from her body and surroundings. That she can find so much humor and magic in Mary's slow transformation into Martin is remarkable, but the book may be most memorable for its quiet realism and light, exacting prose. Not to be missed. --Regina Marler -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Taschenbuch .

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English author Tremain (Restoration, 1990, etc.) returns triumphantly to the 20th century, sketching the outwardly stunted postwar lives of a dozen small-town characters in rural Suffolk- -people whose inner lives, however, are surprising, colorful, sometimes tragic, and drive many of them to a bittersweet, affecting end. At age six in 1952, Mary Ward--observing a minute of silence for the dead King George IV while standing in a potato field belonging to her brutish father, Sonny, and her dreamy mother, Estelle--suddenly becomes aware that she wishes she were a boy; over the next 30 years, fighting with her hapless brother Timmy, strapping her growing breasts against her chest, falling in love with a neighbor girl named Pearl, running away to her grandfather Cord's house in the wonderful town of Gresham Tears, changing her name to Martin, moving to London, submitting to psychoanalysis, and finally having a sex-change operation and emigrating to Nashville, heroic Mary makes this pressing wish come true. Estelle, lost in a vague dream of her own that eventually leads her to a mental hospital, and Sonny, who becomes a sloppy, suicidal drunk, don't fare as well. But Timmy--who wants to be a pastor rather than a farmer--does; he marries Mary's girlhood love-object Pearl. Eventually, the local homosexual dentist Gilbert, who longs for a swinging life; Walter, Gilbert's first lover, a butcher's son who wants to become a Nashville country music star; and Walker's mother Grace, who buys Sonny Ward's farm after Sonny has killed himself and who grows rich raising chickens--all these and others will get what they secretly need. So, finally, ironically, does even the dead tyrant Sonny--who gets a son to work the land, even though the son is Mary and the land she's working is in Tennessee. Tremain's latest starts slowly but gathers emotional speed and literary power: an entrancing, highly satisfying read. -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .

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absolutely brilliant 15. M�rz 2000

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when i heard that we had to read a book about a girl who wants to become a boy for english class, my first instinct was that the book would be bad, a simple stereotypical novel that would fail to convey more than that. in fact, it turned out to be quite the contrary. i should have had more faith in my teacher. anyway, this book is simply marvelous. the story is about so much more than just Mary/Martin; the quest for identity affects Tim and Walter as well. all the characters in this book are so real and each amazing in his or her own way. i know this is a poor review and does not do the novel justice, but i just wanted to add my 5 stars to the average. this book is not to be missed.

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Almost perfect. 28. Mai 1999

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This is the first book that I've felt compelled to review here. That there are only two other comments is almost a crime, since this is a book any real fan of fiction should read. The writing is beautiful, creating images that remain long after you've stopped reading; the characters are all at once completely unqiue and yet you recognize yourself and those you know in each and every one of them. As the other reviews have mentioned, don't feel put off if you've never had any "gender identity" problems--as in any great novel, the plot itself is merely the skeleton. At the end you realize the book in your hands is a shimmering, living thing.

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I am so moved. 5. Januar 1999

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This is one of the most amazing books I have ever read. For the week it took me to read I was part of Mary/Martin's life. This is not just a book of gender identity, but of the obstacles of life and growing up. Rose Tremain takes us through the amazing and painful journey of a 6 year old girl who makes the realization that she is really a boy through the characters early twenties where she is in the process of becoming a man. Although his/her father always wanted a boy and blames her/him for the fact that he doesn't have one, his/her realization is not one that he would ever accept. It has been over a year since I read this book and although I have never had gender identity problems, or actually really known anyone who has, Mary/Martin is still a frequent visitor to my thoughts.

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