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by: Jon Hassler
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780452284623
ISBN: 0452284627
Label: Plume
Manufacturer: Plume
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: October 28, 2003
Publisher: Plume
Release Date: October 28, 2003
Sales Rank: 248685
Studio: Plume
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In The Staggerford Flood, Jon Hassler brings back Agatha McGee and reunites other favorite characters from his award-winning Staggerford novels. When a flood hits Staggerford and neighboring towns, Agatha McGee's house on the highest hill in town becomes a refuge for seven female neighbors, friends, and former students for three days and three nights. This deluge of old and new friends-as well as a new young priest who thinks Agatha has become a bit too zealous about morality-helps to restore Agatha's own very distinctive spark.
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Rating:  - Sleepy and Unimaginative
This book has a promising premise... a certain saccharine-sweet appeal to it when you look at the cover and read the first few pages.
The problem, though, is that there are too many characters which are easy to confuse with one another, and too little of an attraction by the reader to the characters' story. I'm halfway into this book, and so far, it's just a blur of old people and their families, and random thoughts and odd comments made by a protagonist who's not very appealing.
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Rating:  - Not one of Hassler's better novels...
I was really looking forward to reading this book. I must sadly write, Staggerford Flood is not one of my favorite Jon Hassler novels. I'm a big Hassler fan; I've have read most of his books, but I feel this latest offering pales next to others. The characters are not as well developed, and the plot (7 or so local residents are holed up in the protagonist's house during a flood) did not hold my interest. The flood and its physical consequences are not described with much detail. The book focuses ... Read More
Rating: - (3.5) An octogenarian's slumber party
At a time when neighbors are barely acquainted, Hassler offers a welcome distraction, a visit to a place where America is known for its small towns with friendly people, where the postman greets everyone on his route. The Staggerford Flood is author Jon Hassler's intimate novel of small town life, in Staggerford, Minnesota, where everyone's business is discussed by folks who have known each other all their lives. Staggerford has the aura of turn-of the-century America, long before extended families ... Read More
Rating:  - Welcome Back Home
I have read all of Jon Hassler's novels. He has the rare ability to write a good story about people you come to care about. In this novel he brings back many of the characters who were so prominent in his other novels - almost like a reunion of characters. For long time readers of his novels this is a visit back home to see how the family is getting along. For new readers of his work, I would suggest that you begin with his earlier work and build to this one. Specifically start with Staggerford, ... Read More
Rating: - Like attending a reunion in your old hometown.
No matter where you come from, Hassler's Staggerford feels like home, and his characters like the old friends (and nemeses) you probably grew up with. With an unerring eye for the universally mundane, and an ear for the commonplaces we all expect in conversations with old friends, Hassler brings Staggerford, Minnesota, to life during the "flood of the century," as the Badbattle River overflows and inundates the town one spring.
There's nothing like a good emergency to inspire Agatha McGee, ... Read More
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