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Key Information
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Knut Hamsun |
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Bookman: "'Dreamers' cannot rank with Knut Hamsun's later works. It can be enjoyed with or without a previous knowledge of the author, but it is not stupendous." |
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Format: Paperback, 180
Publisher: Kessinger Pub (October 30, 2007)
ISBN: 9780548624982 |
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First Line
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The housekeeper at the Vicarage, Marie van Loos, stood at the kitchen window looking out along the road. |
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The midnight sun illumines more than fishing and fjords in this remote, northern Norwegian village. In fact, half-baked schemes and hilarity abound. Big Ove Rolandsen, telegraph operator, mad scientist, and local Casanova, trades wits, fists, and kisses with a host of quirky neighbors. He serenades the curate's wife and fights a drunken giant, but taking on Trader Mack, the town's fish-glue magnate, is a more difficult matter. Knut Hamsun, author of the acclaimed HUNGER and winner of the 1920 Nobel Prize for Literature, renders the dreams and dramas of these townsfolk with a delightfully light touch. Robert Bly has written that Hamsun "has a magnifying glass on his eye, like a jeweler's," and DREAMERS gleams like a perfect, semiprecious stone. |
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