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Homeplace Mass Market Paperback – May 23 1996

by Anne Rivers Siddons (Author)
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 1,406 ratings
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"Anne Rivers Siddons...writes with such astonishing lyrical beauty that you will want to read it aloud to everyone you ever loved."  — Pat Conroy

After twenty-one years Micah (Mike) Winship is making the big move--she's going home for a visit. She hasn't been back since 1963, when her father threw her out, but now he is dying and asking for her. And although she is armed with her succesful journalism career and the strength found after her divorce, she is nearing forty and her sophisticated urban lifestyle is falling apart.

Heading home, Mike is unprepared for a past that has lain in wait for her--one that includes an old love, a spoiled sister, and a plot to seize her family's land. And in trying to understand her long-forgotten self, she learns at last those lessons best learned early about love and loss, family and forgiveness, and the undeniable need for a place called home.

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  1. Print length
    432 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    HarperTorch
  4. Publication date
    May 23 1996
  5. Dimensions
    10.64 x 2.74 x 17.15 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    006101141X
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0061011412
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“Powerful, sensitive...You won’t want to miss Homeplace.” — Atlanta Journal & Constitution

“Siddons is a fine teller of tales.” — Washington Post Book World

“Anne Rivers Siddons...writes with such astonishing lyrical beauty that you will want to read it aloud to everyone you ever loved.” — Pat Conroy

“Siddons. . . knows how to exploit the old South’s sense of Gothic and its mordant wit. At the same time, we believe in her portrait of the new South--still a place as difficult to take as it is to leave.” — New York Times Book Review

“Can you ever go home again? Siddons weaves a tender story around that theme, using a winsome narrative with just the right words, which she plucks as lovingly as from a field of flowers. She’s always written that way. When you finish the book, you’ll want to ask her to hurry on to the next one.” — Southern Living

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After twenty-one years Micah (Mike) Winship is making the big move--she's going home for a visit. She hasn't been back since 1963, when her father threw her out, but now he is dying and asking for her. And although she is armed with her succesful journalism career and the strength found after her divorce, she is nearing forty and her sophisticated urban lifestyle is falling apart.

Heading home, Mike is unprepared for a past that has lain in wait for her--one that includes an old love, a spoiled sister, and a plot to seize her family's land. And in trying to understand her long-forgotten self, she learns at last those lessons best learned early about love and loss, family and forgiveness, and the undeniable need for a place called home.

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperTorch; Reprint edition (May 23 1996)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 432 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 006101141X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0061011412
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 247 g
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 10.64 x 2.74 x 17.15 cm
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 1,406 ratings

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  1. Anne Rivers Siddons

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    Anne Rivers Siddons (born January 9, 1936) is an American novelist who writes stories set in the southern United States.

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    National bestselling and award-winning author of thirty-five romances that often feature the exciting backdrop of the Old West, Dorothy Garlock is one of America's-and the world's-favorite novelists. Her books, all enthusiastically reviewed, now total more than eight million copies in print with translations in 15 languages. She lives in Clear Lake, Iowa.

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Top reviews from Canada

Sueathome
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Books
Reviewed in Canada on January 18, 2003
I to date have read all but two of Ann Siddon's books. They are the most entrancing books that I have ever read. I highly recomend them. I could not stop turning pages far into the night. Happy reading.
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Jean Chabassol
4.0 out of 5 stars I have enjoyued 90% of Siddons Books, I find them a great read.
Reviewed in Canada on March 3, 2022
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For my own entertainment, I have always enjoyed her books for many years. I liked the flavour of the South, maybe because my husband and I spent many weeks for many years during the 60's and 70's golfing in Georgia, namely, on Jekyel Island, the food and climate suited us in Feb or Mar, coming from New Brunswick in Canada, where the snow could be "feet" high. Southren authors have always appealed to me.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Another Masterpiece.
Reviewed in Canada on June 2, 2000
Ms. Siddon's did it again. A very powerful, interesting novel. It was one I couldn't put down. Thank you for another great Novel.
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Marilyn Rondeau
4.0 out of 5 stars Deeply Moving Story of Forgiveness
Reviewed in Canada on August 26, 2003
Micah "Mike" Winship was going home to a place she'd fled in 1963 when her father had thrown her out. It's twenty years later, she's become an award-winning journalist, and has not spoken to her father in all that time. A plea from her sister, Dee Dee asking her to return and help with their father who was dying from prostate cancer and wanted to see her came at a point in Mike's life where she virtually had no other place to go. Mike's world was collapsing around her and she needed a place to go - to re-group, and pull herself together, even if it meant facing the man whose love and acceptance she had tried to gain during her awful childhood. What Mike finally discovers, after more betrayals, is the heart, soul and essence of the man she called 'daddy' and a real place called 'home'.
This was my first book by this author whose eloquence with the written word is so outstanding that she slips under the skin of the extremely well sketched characters and lets you breathe their air, and pump their blood. You will laugh, cry, and feel each emotion as the author sketches the life of a memorable journey taken by the youngest daughter of coming home again. Totally thought provoking and believable. This is an outstanding classic novel that I see why it has been resurrected and reissued for a new generation of readers to embrace!
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Mamalinde
4.0 out of 5 stars Of Home and Hope and Family
Reviewed in Canada on October 4, 2000
Somehow I missed this particular book when it came out, though I've been a Siddons fan for a long time. Interesting companion to her newest book NORA, NORA, with a similar pivotal character in virtually the same setting. This is a tale of coming home and discovering your history, with plenty of betrayal and love along the way. Micah Winship, works through a pretty awful childhood and becomes an award winning journalist, when her world collapses and she finds herself called back to Lytton, Georgia. Ms. Siddons is a Southern writer who can make you feel heat, humidity and actually breath the air along with her characters, who also breathe and live and languish. Excellent portrayal of the south with well sketched, believable characters. The story is thought provoking and hopeful.
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Mrs. M. G. Clarke
4.0 out of 5 stars Homeplace
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 23, 2010
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This is an earlier book by ARS and I think her writing has improved greatly over the years. I am a real fan and have read nearly all of her books despite them being difficult to purchase over here in UK until Amazon came along. Although an early book, the plot is still pure Siddons. Her character portrayal is always good - no stick figures for her. A crotchety daughter finally returning to her homeplace to a crotchety father. Her descriptions of her favourite areas in USA - the South - just make me want to return.
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Nancy S.
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Portrayal of Old South Values
Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2014
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Family differences have caused the main character to be estranged from her father for many years. Her sister has been the primary caretaker and as the father's condition worsens, the long lost daughter comes home to try to help. Her father doesn't seem to want her help, but there is a lawyer who is "helping" him that she just doesn't quite know whether to trust or not. She renews a long lost love, but is it possible to pick up the pieces? The reader hopes so, but there is a connection between that love and her sister and her family that she's just not sure what to make of.
The love of land is strong in the South and this comes into play very strongly in the novel along with love and familial betrayal. Who is the enemy? Is there an enemy? Is her gut all wrong? "Homeplace" brings the small time farmer and his love of the land and his family to the attention of the reader. It is full of twists and turns and is definitely worth the time to read. I felt as if I'd gone home again.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Homecoming Overdue
Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2024
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As in all of ARS's novels, you cannot help going alongside the journey with the Main character. You feel what she feels --or doesn't. I promise you that you will have a clear vision of the 60's south. Those of us who were coming of age then well remember.
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H. Oliver
5.0 out of 5 stars Siddons Finds a New Depth
Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2022
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This "is a very different book from her usual writing, somewhat richer and deeper. I do enjoy her "beach books" but this was more Conway-ish, which was great, as I do love his way of writing,the power of his sentences. She has a new depth to her stories, and I very much enjoyed this book.
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systems gal
3.0 out of 5 stars Anne rivers Siddons does not disappoint
Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2014
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I enjoy the characters in her books. As a transplant to the south, I appreciate some of her southern characters. Sam is somehow quintessential south to me. There were actually times when I did not like Mike who is the main character of the book but through it all the story takes an interesting look at interpersonal relationships and the ability to forgive.
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