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   None No current Talk conversations about this book.  Librogirl | Mar 13, 2022 |   Margaret is a recluse, she stays in her apartment and keeps to herself. One thing she does enjoy is telling stories. Five people have their lives changed by listening to Margaret and her fascinating tales. A set of twins lived down the hall, they are eager to hear more from Margaret. A man in a red hat has secrets to hide. A reverend who is haunted by a horrific event in the Vietnam war, needs to let go of his inner demons. Margaret herself has a tragic story, her mother dies and she is left alone with Reverend Davies to look after her. There sits a stack of unopened of letters from him to her, what do these letters reveal? Each story is filled with emotions, the neighbors in her (Margaret's) apartment complex are all touched in their own ways by her story telling. A fantastic story that touches the heart, leaving a lasting impression. I highly recommend The Recluse Storyteller to all. (  ) SheriAWilkinson | Dec 7, 2020 | Margaret is a recluse, she stays in her apartment and keeps to herself. One thing she does enjoy and that is telling stories. She seems to have a gift in story telling. Five peoples lives are changed by her stories. A set of twins lived down the hall, they are eager to hear more of her story. A man in a red hat has secrets to hide. A reverend who is haunted by a horrific event in the Vietnam war,needs to let go of his inner demons. Margaret herself has a tragic story, her mother dies and she is left alone with Reverend Davies to look after her. There sits a stack of unopened of letters from him to her. Each story is filled with emotions and the neighbors in her apartment complex are all touched in their own ways by her story telling. A fantastic story that touches the heart, leaving a lasting impression. ( ) SheriAWilkinson | Apr 2, 2014 | no reviews | add a review
The twins, beckoned by an ominous streak of light across the sky, climb Harper's Hill to encounter an apparition of their missing father.The reverend stands on a muddy ridge, the barrel of a rifle in his neck, looking down on a Vietnamese village, scarred by war and regret. The brash terrorist, Red Hat, desperately tries to walk away from life unscathed and unattached.The stories haunt Margaret every waking moment, but they are anything but random. A fractured view Michael Cheevers' red hat through a discreetly cracked door sends her off on adventure. A glimpse of the Johnson twins from apartment 2D transports her mind to the lonely hill on a Midwestern prairie in 1887. The regular letters from Reverend Davies bring her to the brink of exhaustion as she stares intensely into the heart of war, deep in the jungle of Vietnam. Margaret is not insane, at least not in a clinical sense. She's like a midnight raccoon, painfully aware of her surroundings, gleaning crumbs of information at every turn. Her eyes peer incessantly in the night, stealing glances of the neighbors through partially opened doors. But the tales she weaves were not meant to merely hold empty court to the receptive dead air of her apartment. Her stories were meant to embolden the lives of the inhabitants of that drab apartment block because her story is also their story--and everything would be different if they could only hear the prophetic words of the rambling recluse. The Recluse Storyteller weaves five stories into one as the loner, Margaret, not only searches for meaning from her reclusive life, but also gives meaning in the most unexpected ways to the troubled souls of her apartment complex. Part adventure, part tragedy, and part discovery, The Recluse Storyteller bridges genres, bringing hope, life, and redemption to the broken relationships of modern society. No library descriptions found. |
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Margaret Pritcher lives alone…reclusively, in fact, to the point that her neighbours think she’s slightly odd. This doesn’t stop them, however, from knocking on her door for one reason or another. In her solitude, she tells stories, the characters of which are her persistent neighbours. Most of them think her stories are just flights of fancies, but she finds two very avid listeners in twins, Pam and Sam, who despite their mother’s disapproval, go to great lengths to listen to them. But when snippets of the stories start to bear some resemblance to real life, the neighbours who are starting to think Margaret is quite mad, start to take a step back and reconsider.
This was extremely well—and uniquely—executed. The stories told by Margaret are ingeniously braided with her own story, Margaret herself a complex, if slightly tragic, character. The novel overflows with poignancy and a gamut of emotions. I like Mark’s style: he manages to paint a picture, be it one of action or one charged with emotion, with simplicity. There’s no floridity or pretentiousness about his writing.
There are (avoidable) editing issues—a good proofread wouldn’t go amiss—but highly recommended nonetheless. (