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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9781402201479 ISBN: 1402201478 Label: Sourcebooks Landmark Manufacturer: Sourcebooks Landmark Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 304 Publication Date: October 01, 2003 Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark Studio: Sourcebooks Landmark Related Items: Alternate Versions: Click to Display Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Award-winning author Michael Malone’s The Last Noel is a beautiful gift to American fiction. In a deeply touching tale, The Last Noel captures the exuberance and poignance of a lasting friendship between a man and a woman from very different backgrounds. Noni Tilden and Kaye King grow up and grow close as their lives come dramatically together through four decades of tumultuous change in a small southern town. The story begins in 1963 when Kaye first meets Noni on the eve of their seventh birthdays. On that Christmas Eve, Kaye climbs through her bedroom window to invite her to come sledding with him in a rare southern snowfall. Over the next thirty years on twelve days of Christmas, they meet to share the passion, the sacrifice and the romance of a lifetime. At once exquisitely written and tearfully joyful, The Last Noel is one of the great love stories of our time. A Book Sense 76 Top 10 Selection "Malone’s latest novel reaffirms his brilliance in crafting carefully plotted fiction with a literary burnish, most often through Southern manners and intrigue." -Denver Post "A warm, engaging love story." -Booklist "Malone writes with such quiet authority and clear understanding of the world his characters inhabit that the story strikes deep emotional chords."-Washington Post Book World Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Good ideaThis book started out well and I enjoyed the characters. Noni was an easy to love character. I just found this to be so politically correct. I thought this book had merit and I was thankful for a few things. One Kaye stayed married. I never felt fully engrossed in the characters, that was the main thing lacking throughout the story. It is an easy read and not too boring just not great Rating: - OK for a Christmas novelty bookI admit to a mad passion for MOST of the work of Michael Malone, and was so sad to see he had succumbed to the temptation to write a "christmas book". I was so shocked I did not buy it- the only available Malone I don't own. Still, when my curiosity got the best of me in the library one day, I took it home and read it. And true to Malone's talent, it was readable and interesting and I got engaged by the characters and the perfect writing. Still, it isn't up to the standards of his best work (Try ... Read More Rating:  - Not my cup of teaI don't think there is anything special about The Last Noel. The characters came across as flat and predictable, and were presented in such a fashion that I frankly didn't care what happened to them. Noni, as some have pointed out, was too good, and I think it's unrealistic that she could just let her life slip away from her without any complaint. She spends her life serving others without thinking of herself; how could she not even shed a tear or throw a fit about her lonely existence? Nobody ... Read More Rating:  - The Last Noel - Alison OwensMy best friend and I have a book exchange in that we take turns choosing a book to read each month. For December I picked this book and my friend was unimpressed. I procrastinated the book because of his bad reviews until yesterday. I wasn't supposed to like it and therefore didn't for the first few pages. After that, I got hooked and read it in a day. I even stayed up this morning til 2:30 to finish it. I cried for a good hour (maybe two - I'm trying not to exaggerate) of my reading. I particularly ... Read More Rating: - made for tv movie fodderThe Last Noel started with a cute premise: a bold and intelligent friendship starting at age seven. Even the "kiss" in chapter one is intriguing. But from that point on it becomes too messy. The characters take a back seat to social commentary, the march of time, and the annoying little literary trick of introducing props to serve as titles for the upcoming chapters (hitchcock chair, hope chest, etc). Its hard to write a book about a person's life without focusing on only the "bad" stuff - and Malone ... Read More 
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