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基本信息
·出版社：Grand Central Publishing
·页码：164 页码
·出版日：1999年
·ISBN：9780446530064
·条码：9780446530064
·装帧：精装
内容简介
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It is just days before the Christmas of 1918 in a picturesque township nestled in the mountains of coal country. Anna Beal, an idealistic nine-year-old, is very close with her father Joseph, a hardworking railroad engineer. As Christmas approaches, a series of puzzling dreams shared by Joseph and Anna about a golden ring mystifies them both. Based on a true story.
作者简介
John Snyder was inspired to write this book after his grandmother told him about a childhood Christmas incident she never forgot-and had never told to anyone. Snyder is currently working on a new novel. He lives in Gambrills, Maryland, with his wife, Ruth Ellen, and their two daughters, Nikki and Carli.
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From Publishers Weekly
Based on a story told to Snyder by his grandmother just before she died, this old-fashioned Yuletide tale was self-published last year, selling over 24,000 copies. Now Warner is hoping to make it a heartwarming perennial favorite (i.e., bestseller) … la Richard Paul Evans's The Christmas Box. Set in 1918, in the western Pennsylvania town of Meyersville, it concerns Christmas preparations and some supernatural goings-on among the Beal clan. Joseph is the firm but kindhearted father who works as a railway engineer, and Elda is the firm but kindhearted mother who bakes and knits. Of their six children, nine-year-old Anna is featured most prominently. Her cherished gold ring, a birthday gift from her parents, appears, along with Jesus, in recurring dreams that haunt both her and Joseph. Anna gives her ring to the daughter of a poverty-stricken family passing through town, and Joseph finds a replacement that had belonged to a little girl who died when she was Anna's age. All these transactions are, of course, attended by true-meaning-of-Christmas commentary regarding the importance of selflessness, faith and charity. Snyder's prose is like fruitcake: bland and familiar, but laced with vaguely unpleasant bits. For Anna, Christmas is "a very special holiday in her heart," and Joseph is given to talking to himself, in prayer and otherwise: "How foolish to have waited so long to make up your mind, you stubborn fool." But few descriptions are as inadvertently apt as this: "The locomotive sat on the snowy tracks, steam spouting from every orifice. It made noises like the labored breathing of a large animal that had been shot and was struggling to stay alive." Lovers of literature will empathize completely; others will read this story aloud to their children. National advertising.
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Washington Times
"Destined to become a classic...will be read by anyone who wants to get closer to the essence of Christmas."
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