Apple of Sodom: An American Woman's Journey in Jordan
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| Rating | : | 4.89 (997 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1938144287 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 262 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-30 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
. World traveler Mary Hoffman, who makes her home in central Ohio, is a liberal arts graduate of Ohio State University, the institution she served for many years as program director and on-air presence for WOSU-FM, known then as ''Classical 89.7.'' She also enjoyed ten years of freelance concert reviewing and occasional travel writing for the Columbus Dispatch
"A Fantastic Story!" according to Carol J. From the very first page, the reader is taken on a journey - of young mother Emily's struggle to live in a foreign country while trying to take care of A Fantastic Story! From the very first page, the reader is taken on a journey - of young mother Emily's struggle to live in a foreign country while trying to take care of 3 young children and please her egotistical husband, Philip. The story is rich with history, landscape, and emotion as this family of five adapt to a different culture. The writing is so superb that you want to keep reading page after page. The story is engaging and includes characters who add a complex dimension. I would love to read another book by Mary Hoffman!. young children and please her egotistical husband, Philip. The story is rich with history, landscape, and emotion as this family of five adapt to a different culture. The writing is so superb that you want to keep reading page after page. The story is engaging and includes characters who add a complex dimension. I would love to read another book by Mary Hoffman!. Terrific book! Margaret C. Starbuck I found this book fascinating. I got very involved with the heroine, Emily. Not only is she an American trying to adapt to the culture of an Arab country, but she is raising three children while trying to please a very difficult husband. Its easy to identify with Emily as she grows into her own person. I was sorry when the book ended. I wanted to know more about her future life.. "Dark." according to Charly Fowler. Not recommended. Very dark.
Apple of Sodom truly is a journey of an American woman in a foreign land where Emily, no longer a caged bird, finds the strength to soar. --Adele N. Without sacrificing historical accuracy, she welcomes us into the mind of Emily and through the dirt roads of Amman; the walk is enchanting, the shadows, haunting. As the novel develops, Emily and Philip's marriage is under duress. Hoffman grabs our hearts as she reveals the fragility of an American family living in Jordan in the 1960's. NicholsMary Hoffman's Apple of Sodom grows temptation, ardor, and doubt, cultivated in poetic yet realistic descriptions of time and place. Unlike Edna Pontellier in The Awakening, whose only resolve is to commit suicide rather than stay in a loveless marriage, Emily is not willing to die--to her needs, her wants, her desire.
Emily Crawford, a young American wife and mother, seeks a long-overdue self-respect in this absorbing and dramatic portrait of an expatriate family experi¬encing life in an exotic Arab culture at the start of the 1960s. Revelatory episodes unfold against the entertainments of the well-to-do and influential, among the lives of ordinary citizens, and during explorations of ancient cities in the Holy Land and beyond.