Lucy Jane Bledsoe's Reviews
Reviews of Lucy’s Work
Published by Book Marks
"...captures the southern continent’s blend of mystery, menace and majesty with ravishing immediacy....Bledsoe’s narrative of the women’s stint in polar isolation, confronting the...
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May.15.2010
Published by Booklist
"Bledsoe skillfully orchestrates the lives of an intriguing set of characters gathered at an outpost in Antarctica....Bledsoe uses the locale's incredible beauty and high...
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Apr.01.2010
Published by Kirkus Reviews
“In this compelling novel, Bledsoe captures the deadly beauty of the southernmost continent….A well-balanced humdinger of a story keeps this unusual novel hurtling along like a...
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May.07.2010
Published by Band of Thebes
"For everyone mesmerized by Werner Herzog's Antarctic documentary Encounters at the End of the World, Lucy Jane Bledsoe's rippingly good new novel. The Big Bang Symphony provides...
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May.06.2010
Published by Edge Magazine
"Well-paced and plotted, the novel centers around three women who go to the Antarctic then return home, their lives forever changed by their experiences with each other and with...
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Published by Lambda Book Report
At first I thought that Lucy Jane Bledsoe's new book, Biting the Apple, was released at the wrong time of the year. Dipping into the first pages, I imagined I was reading a...
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Dec.12.2007
Published by AfterEllen.com
"There's a glow about [Eve Glass] that none of the other characters in Bledsoe's brilliant new novel seem able to resist.... What is finally so magical about Biting the Apple...
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Aug.01.2007
Published by Booklist
"Eve Glass has turned her failed stint as an Olympic runner into pure marketing gold as a motivational speaker and the author of a self-help book. Her beauty and charisma...
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Dec.10.2007
Published by Book Marks
"Bledsoe's sleek fourth novel, packed with complex female characters...is an intelligent, introspective, and smartly sarcastic story about the shackles of the past, the...
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Jun.04.2007
Published by Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"One woman's authentic search to discover what matters."
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About Lucy
Lucy Jane Bledsoe's new novel, THE BIG BANG SYMPHONY: a novel of Antarctica, was released in May 2010. For more information on the book, please see her website: www.lucyjanebledsoe.com.When Lucy is not writing, she's sea kayaking in Alaska, backpacking in...
Lucy’s Favorite Books
Anything by Alice Munro!
Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Ordinary Love & Good Will by Jane Smiley