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Loading... The Lives of Shadows: An Illustrated Novelby Barbara Hodgson
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. A beautiful, low-key story that draws you in with the first sentence. The drawings, photographs, etc. that are attributed to the main character only add to the atmosphere of this story. (  ) jaynedArcy | Dec 29, 2009 |  A beautiful, low-key story that draws you in with the first sentence. The drawings, photographs, etc. that are attributed to the main character only add to the atmosphere of this story. ( ) jaynedArcy | Dec 29, 2009 | A beautiful, low-key story that draws you in with the first sentence. The drawings, photographs, etc. that are attributed to the main character only add to the atmosphere of this story. ( ) jaynedArcy | Dec 29, 2009 | This is an interesting book. Some years ago, I had read [the Sensualist] and liked it. Hodgson's books are illustrated and give you a sense of reality, [Lives of Shadows] is laid in Damascus, and takes us through the Syrian revolution in 1925 and the aftermath of World War II. The illustrations include Arabic calligraphy, newpaper clippping, house drawings, photographs, property records.These may be faithful without being true. Or maybe it depends on how you define reality and from what vantage point? There is a bondage between the two main characters, who both make entries into journals they are writing, which is both enigmatic and strangely close. You don't know the novel is going to resolve until the very end. (  ) vpfluke | May 27, 2007 | Magical if predictable - but one's really not in it for the narrative. The vivid illustrations and the potent device of two stories told on back to back in a single journal (how I wish that the book could have materialised this, as in Carole Shield's Happenstance) kept me reading, and the book has lingered as the ghost house does. ( ) deliriumslibrarian | Apr 23, 2006 |  no reviews | add a review
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