The Thin Place | 
 enlarge | Author: Kathryn Davis
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  34 reviews
Sales Rank: 382107
Media: Paperback
Pages: 304
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.4 x 1.1
ISBN: 0316014249
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780316014243
ASIN: 0316014249
Publication Date: February 1, 2007
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Condition: Some wear on book from reading, spine creases, wear on binding and pages, we guarantee all purchases and ship all items via USPS mail.
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Product Description
The prize-winning author of Versailles tells the story of a small New England village unsettled by a young girls unearthly gift. In Varennes, a town near the Canadian border, three girls come across the body of a dead man on the local lakes beach. Two of them run to get help, but twelve-year-old Mees Kipp stays with the body and somehow, inexplicably, brings it back to life. Her mysterious gift is at the center of this haunting and transcendent novel. THE THIN PLACE is the story of these girls, their town, and the worldly and otherworldly forces that come into play there over one summer. Writing at the peak of her powers, Kathryn Davis draws on commonplace formspolice blotters, garden almanacs, Sunday sermons, horoscopes, and diariesto convey the rich rhythms of life in Varennes. From the ladies in the old-folks home to trappers, lawyers, teachers, ministers, drug addictseven the dogs and cats, beavers and bearsshe peoples this novel with astonishingly vivid beings. The extraordinary comes to visit an ordinary town.
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 Fragmented and Slow November 16, 2008
Reader (New Orleans, LA)
I really thought that I was going to enjoy this novel but instead I found myself looking forward to it being over. After 200 pages, I still felt like I was reading the introduction and waiting for the real story to begin. I did not care about any of the characters and I found the story to be boring. On a separate note, I have absolutely no idea how the cover art fits in with the story because none of the drawn images figure into the story. I wonder what the purpose of that was? I would not recommend this book to anyone.
 Third time's a charm August 19, 2008
Curlykew
Yesterday, I finished "The Thin Place." The trouble is that I started a year and a half ago. When it first came out, I tried to get through it and couldn't. I lent it to my grandmother, who devours books, only she couldn't get through it either. I tried one more time, then finally gave up and sold the book. So, when I recently stumbled upon "The Thin Place" on a library shelf, it stared out at me, mournfully, saying, "You never got through me!" I don't like to quit things but wasn't sure I could actually finish it. I usually get through books on the first try. I figured, now is as good a time as any.
Having since gone through two years of intense English courses, I finally got through "The Thin Place." I'm really glad I did. I truly enjoyed the story. I felt myself immersed not only in Davises world but in The World as I was reading it. I think the best way to describe this book is that while reading it, I experienced the actual universe. There are passages where you actually feel space: dimensions, stars, math. I lost my breath at some of the descriptions. Kathryn Davis truly creates a novel that transcends reading; The Thin Place is an experience.
That being said, the cover is misleading, the book flap and other descriptions aren't well written, and there are still passages where I am not sure what is going on. I don't know whether I am strong enough to go back in that book and try to figure them out again. It was like gymnastics. It took me 2 hours to read 50 pages. It was challenging to get through but I miss being in the book.
I hope to read some of her other work. I want to say that I will take this book as a leaping off point for others that require a lot of energy to unravel. It might be the start of a new path of literature for me. Maybe this book helps my brain to open like the ant does to the peony.
 Disappointing July 15, 2008
D. Watkis (Michigan)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I picked up this book after seeing it on NPR's list of summer/beach books. I wonder if they actually read it. I thought it would deal with the thin place between worlds. I stuck with it to the bitter end ... thinking something was going to happen, but couldn't recommend anyone else bother. The description of the characters was detailed but nothing happens. I believe a good book has to have more of a plot than this one did.
Pretentious February 24, 2008
S. Collins
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I love to read, and I was very excited when I saw this book. I thought it would be an etheral story of the thinning of the veil between our World and the other side. I am almost halfway through and I just cannot keep reading. I feel like the author is trying so hard to show her skill at beautiful prose that she forgets her story. It's boring, very confusing, and unfortunately did not live up (for me) to the wonderful painting used on the cover. Being a wonderful writer is one thing, but there is not a gripping story here.
painful February 8, 2008
Barbara Cappucci (shrewsbury,MA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
What was i thinking? i actually had this in my wishlist and got it for christmas. I never am one to give up on a book, but there are just too many good ones out there to struggle like this!! i told myself to at least get to page 50...I CANT!! I have no clue as to what ive read so far! For me to toss a book and not even put it on a shelf...its bad. Im tossing it!!
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