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The Archivist Martha Cooley PB list price $13.00 Little Brown & Company (April 1999) ISBN: 0316158461 327 pages average review: Reviews: This gets: a from eryka: I admit that I read this because she's from Brooklyn, and I have a great deal of loyalty to my hometown. I dug the cover design, and actually enjoyed the subject matter, even though I don't usually care for poetry (except for Shel Silverstein, RIP). All in all, a good book. From the back cover: Matthias is a librarian, a man of orderly ways, responsible for safeguarding a sealed cache of T. S. Eliot's letters. Roberta is a young poet with an unabashed and oddly intense interest in the letters. What begins as a battle of wills soon evolves into an unlikely friendship-a relationship that not only unsettles Matthias's solitary life but forces him to confront long-buried memories of his wife, her mental breakdown, and the dissolution of their marriage. Propelled by startling truths hidden and revealed, this extraordinary novel draws richly upon the poems of T. S. Eliot and the intellectual and social climate of postwar New York City as it explores the redemptive power of art and the challenge of forging a moral and meaningful life in the modern world. eryka.com scale: So good you just can't stand it. Almost that good. Sort of good. Generally a waste of time. Destined for the recycler. If you'd like to review this book, or another, click here Similar books by category: women writers | new york writers | american Go home | Go to reviews home © 2002 eryka.com. All rights reserved.