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Good Harbor
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By
Anita Diamant
Narrated by
Linda Emond
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6 hrs and 51 mins
Audible Release Date
09-28-01
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3.37 based on 43 ratings
 

Publisher's Summary

Anita Diamant's international best seller The Red Tent brilliantly re-created the ancient world of womanhood. Now Diamant brings her remarkable storytelling skills to Good Harbor - offering insight to the precarious balance of marriage and career, motherhood and friendship in the world of modern women.

The seaside town of Gloucester, Massachusetts is a place where the smell of the ocean lingers in the air and the rocky coast glistens in the Atlantic sunshine. When longtime Gloucester resident Kathleen Levine is diagnosed with breast cancer, her life is thrown into turmoil. Frightened and burdened by secrets, she meets Joyce Tabachnik - a freelance writer with literary aspirations - and a once-in-a-lifetime friendship is born. Joyce has just bought a small house in Gloucester, where she hopes to write as well as vacation with her family. Like Kathleen, Joyce is at a fragile place in her life.

A mutual love for books, humor, and the beauty of the natural world brings the two women together. They share their personal histories, and help each other to confront scars left by old emotional wounds.

©2001 Anita Diamant, All Rights Reserved; (P)2001 Simon & Schuster, Inc., AUDIOWORKS Is an Imprint of Simon & Schuster Audio Division, Simon & Schuster, Inc.

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Diamant's second novel focuses on Kathleen, a near-60-year-old librarian living in a small town in Massachusetts. After she's diagnosed with breast cancer, the treatments and stress begin to cloud her thinking, values, relationships, and her faith. Linda Emond depicts an intelligent woman on the verge of a major life change desperately attempting to keep it together. Her wandering thoughts on death, children, infidelity, and friendship emerge as real enough to touch anyone's compassion button. As Kathleen's relationship with a romance writer provides both strength and outlet for her, Emond explores their relationship with intelligence and humor. As the plot moves along, Kathleen is depicted as somewhat obsessive and even whiny, a condition probably very believable under the circumstances. This is a story about strength, friendship, and survival. (c) AudioFile 2002

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By: Nora (USA)
June 13, 2007


If you like good books you wont like this one. there is no depth, although she failingly attempts at it. The characters aren’t developed and the story line is week. I honestly cant believe this is the same author of the red tent. I was embarrassed to read it. Dont waste your time or money.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful:
Rating 3.0Rating 3.0Rating 3.0Rating 3.0Rating 3.0 "Pleasant if forgettable."
By: Laurie (MERRIMACK, NH, USA)
April 28, 2005
Not having read "The Red Tent" I had nothing to compare "Good Harbor" to (for good or bad). Overall I all enjoyed listening to this in the morning but I wasn't nearly as emotional as I'd expected it to be which is good, I guess, because I expected it to ruin my makeup. On the downside, this is a book I won't remember come next week . . .

It was a nice, gentle tale about the distance that can develop between couples that often goes unnoticed but it was also a book about the power of friendship between women and the special bond and sharing that occurs when two friend's just "click".

Both women came across as very realistic but somehow I always remained at a distance from them both. Joyce's attitude towards her "romance" novel (which paid for her summer home ~ I'd love to know who her agent was as new romance novelists are typically paid a slaves wage!) rubbed me the wrong way on more than one occasion though. Her troubles with her bratty daughter were very realistically portrayed and her loneliness well done but in the end I still sympathized much more with Kathleen's character (though, in the end, she nearly lost me as well).

This isn't a book I'd read again but I am interested in picking up "The Red Tent" after reading so many raves.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful:
Rating 4.0Rating 4.0Rating 4.0Rating 4.0Rating 4.0 "Take me to Good Harbor!"
By: Jeanine (Goshen, NY, USA)
September 23, 2004
This story was so vivid, the descriptions of the coast of Massachusettes made me want to take a trip there. It was a wonderful story...and anything by Diamant is a good read!
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