Judy Garland, Ginger Love

by Nicole Cooley

In her extraordinary debut novel, critically acclaimed poet Nicole Cooley takes readers on a humorous, achingly beautiful journey to a world of magical escapes and startling restorative truths. Judy... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060392517
• ISBN13: 9780060392512
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Harper
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

"Judy Garland, Ginger Love"

A tale of two twin sisters, each of them a bit neurotic in their own different way, on a quest to find their mother who abandoned them at 16. This is a gripping and unusual narrative, full of psychological insight into the nature of sisterhood and the powerful appeal that our childhood desires still make on our adult lives.

A Poignant and Compelling Novel

The characters in this novel are so compelling, I couldn't put it down. I felt caught up in the sisters' journey, unable to leap from the car as we hurtled through a landscape of family memory and imagination. What I especially loved about the novel was its evocative imagery--the hotel, the swimming pool, the wierd, salvaged clothes. This will definitely be one of the books I give friends for Christmas.

A hauntingly poetic novel

The characters are utterly compelling and the plot engaging, but what I like best about the book is its poetic prose. The novel is full of lyrical almost incantatory passages; the images do the metaphorical work they set out to do. The fantasy world the sisters share is conveyed in a language just haunting enough, just strange enough. I was deeply moved by this novel.

An intricately thoughtful and emotional text.

Nicole Cooley's Judy Garland, Ginger Love creates a splendid world where two sisters, twins, explore their relationships to each other and to their distant mother. Cooley's use of the famous Judy Garland in this triangle between the two daughters and their mother is fresh and captivating. Her first novel overfills my expectation and provides anticipation for the next one from this talented woman.

a brilliant debut by a major young talent

This novel deconstructs our established, canonical view of marriage and the relation between members of a family.It is impossible to emerge from a reading of this novel without an entirely new view of our own world. The novel is a devastating experience for the male reader.