Returning to Earth revisits the improvised family of the son and daughter of the timber-baron family from True North.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
serious stuff:
I read this book immediately after True North and it seemed like the second half of that book. I'm not sure how it would have read on it's own. It is a very serious book, about death mostly, but very beautiful. It helped me with some of my feelings after the recent death of my own friend.
Can't believe this book got published ... and read:
Thank goodness I got my book from the library and it didn't cost me any money. I got interested in reading the book because I discovered that Harrison and I went to rival high schools, at about the same time. It was nostalgic for me to read about towns and culture that very few others know of. My grandfather had lived and died in the copper mines he writes about in the "U.P.". And I had just finished reading a Faulkner book (Absalom, Absalom) but certainly do NOT compare Harrison to Faulkner, as stated in a... more info
Very Disappointing!:
I have to agree with the one and two star reviews. I had really hoped to love this novel given the reviews and the subject matter of a life examined, but the characters fell flat. I simply did not care about them or often found them unlikeable. Much of the story is inate ramblings about taking a walk, cooking dinner, having sex and it is all told in a "well whatever" fashion. I would not wast my time on this novel.
Didn't finish it...:
...because the characters and their digressions didn't capture me. I stopped reading after 125 pages.
