Tales from the Blue Archives

by Lawrence Thornton

Book Overview

Continuing the story begun in Lawrence Thornton's acclaimed, award-winning novels Imagining Argentina and Naming the Spirits, this novel has at its core a battle for custody and devotion that is... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385480105
• ISBN13: 9780385480109
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Doubleday Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

I love it.

I just returned from Argentina; I also read Imagining Argentina. This one is the best. It creates a world of magical realism in which you are drawn into each & every character. Not to be missed.

An absolutely incredible read!

The lyrical power of Thornton's prose gets better and better with each new book. In this book, he follows the trail of the missing "adopted" children and the determined search of the grandmother from the time when so many people disappeared, either killed or kidnapped by the Argentinian military - stories that began in his wonderful, earlier books: Imagining Argentina and The Naming of the Spirits. There is a truthfulness to his writing that bypasses logic and goes straight to the heart. I couldn't put this book down. From one novelist to another, I want to congratulate Thornton on producing some of the most powerful literature I have read in the past few years.

Both the writing and story are awesome!

I'm so glad I read this book. It satisfies on many levels. The senseless tragedies of the "disappeared" is made personal in a well written tale. The community of grandmothers who marched every Thursday is the foundation for an incredibly constructed story that, at its core, embraces two boys raised in a family not their own.