Green Journey (original 1985; edition 1996)

by Jon Hassler

Series: Staggerford (2)

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Title:	Green Journey
Authors:	Jon Hassler
Info:	Ballantine Books (1996), Paperback, 304 pages
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I admire Jon Hassler's ability to write fiction with intriguing plots and characters and I enjoyed this novel too. The main characters are a 68 year old retired teacher, a mystery pen pal in Ireland, a bishop that said teacher disagrees with over his modernizing the church, and a young wife. When the main characters travel to Ireland and the mystery pen pal shows up, the story is very compelling. (

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Staggerford (2)

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1985

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Minnesota, USA

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Things throw light on things.
And all the stones have wings.
---Theodore Roethke

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For my mother
Ellen Callinan Hassler

And to the memory of my father
Leo B. Hassler
1896-1984

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On the night before Christmas, a snowy night with wind in the forecast, Janet Raft arrived at Agatha McGee's house on River Street.

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"Hassler's characters have old-fashioned values and typical human failings; they make this a novel to restore your faith in humanity."
LOS ANGELES TIMES
Agatha McGee is following a dream, though it might be late in the game. She's just retired from a career of teaching and travels to Ireland in search of the romance she never had time for. And along the way, she not only discovers people she would never have let herself know before, but learns through experience, at long last, that love is unpredictable, unstoppable, and never appears as we dream it will.

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Agatha McGee, a tower of strength as Miles Pruitt's surrogate mother/landlady in Staggerford, takes the spotlight here. I like this old lady. How can anyone not like this feisty, intelligent, honorable, quick witted, reactionary-but-progressive, hot-tempered, indignant, pragmatic, nurturing old lady? This novel, like it's sequel Dear James, is very warm. There are certain writers that you can depend on to make you relax and smile. Jon Hassler, like Lee Smith, Ellen Gilchrist and Richard Russo, seems to be a writer that is completely in love with and charmed by his own characters. He's kind to them and it's a warmth that extends itself to the reader. I can't help but wish Agatha McGee had been my sixth grade teacher and taught me the Catechism. This is especially weird when you consider the fact that I'm Jewish and pretty much believe in secular education. I guess I must really like her a lot. When you feel like you hate everyone and you'd like to just grab a gun and blow people away, pick up this book instead and save yourself some prison time.… (more)

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