Rachel Joyce
Hardcover | Pages: 365 pages Rating: 3.54 | 14360 Users | 2092 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Perfect |
| ISBN: | 0857520660 (ISBN13: 9780857520661) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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In 1972, two seconds were added to time. It was in order to balance clock time with the movement of the earth. Byron Hemming knew this because James Lowe had told him and James was the cleverest boy at school. But how could time change? The steady movement of hands around a clock was as certain as their golden futures.Then Byron's mother, late for the school run, makes a devastating mistake. Byron's perfect world is shattered. Were those two extra seconds to blame? Can what follows ever be set right?
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| Title | : | Perfect |
| Author | : | Rachel Joyce |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 365 pages |
| Published | : | July 4th 2013 by Doubleday |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Contemporary. Historical. Historical Fiction |
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First, Id be remiss if I didnt give a big thank you to Goodreads FirstReads and Random House for providing an advance copy of PERFECT in exchange for an honest review. I was thrilled to win this book since I loved Ms. Joyce's debut book, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Frye.Rachel Joyce deserves applause for not going back to the well. PERFECT is an entirely different book, revealing the versatility of this author. And indeed, I expect it WILL be Perfect for some readers. My personal readingAstonishing book, I'm in tears after literally just finishing it, this book punched me in the stomach and took emotions to another place. I have rarely cried reading a book, interestingly Rachel Joyce's first novel, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry did too.I won't repeat the book synopsis here but the book is magical, the writing is sublime. It is a book to please persist with, it can seem slow going in places but when all the pieces of the story interweave together it will be worth it, I
If I was a really shitty critic Id begin this review by saying something pithy like:Its the brave author who decides to call their book Perfect. Instead Id rather show you why I loved this book so much:"I know what Im doing Byron, I dont need help. Every word of Lucys sounded like a neat little attack on the air."Theres something just a little bit perfect about that turn of phrase. a neat little attack on the air Those seven words not only say something about the core theme of the novel class
I was charmed and emotionally wrenched many times with this coming of age tale combined with that of a middle-aged man trying to evolve past his mental illness. So many passages shone with the special aura of truth. In other ways the plot elements felt a bit too precious.The story slowly connects the story of a ten-year old boy, Byron, trying to correct the unhappiness in his mothers life in 1972 with that of Jim, a lonely middle-aged man beset with obsessive compulsive disorder in the current
In 1972 two seconds were added to time, to bring the clock back into line with the movement of the earth. Now two seconds might not seem like very much at all, but they could be very important. Byron was eleven years old, and he knew that.Two seconds are huge. Its the difference between something happening and something not happening. Its very dangerous. He was right, of course. Two seconds can make all the difference; for better or for worse.Byron and his best friend James talked it over. James
Great literary dramas strive on understatement. From the first few pages of Rachel Joyce's nearly perfect Perfect, we know there will be tragedy. We know it will affect two children in traumatic ways. But the author leads us on oh so slowly, giving us bits and pieces as we need them. We are given a tantalizing premise at the first page. In 1972, James Lowe tells his best friend Byron Hemmings, that 2 seconds were added onto time to keep it in sync with the earth's movement. What James accepts as
I wont be at all surprised if Perfect isnt the book that gets people talking this summer. Rachel Joyces first novel The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry was hugely successful and popular last year deservedly so, I loved it too. I was delighted therefore to receive this review copy of Rachel Joyces new novel and have been looking forward to it.This is certainly a novel to read with a lump in the throat and a tear in the eye. There were moments I smiled too rather wryly perhaps but Perfect is
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