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A nice what if book, as it follows the life of Ebeneezer after that first Christmas.
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Marvin Kaye has crafted a wondeful sequel to Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," picking up the story of Ebenezer Scrooge and revisiting familiar characters such as Jacob Marley, Bob Cratchit, and many others, following it through to an altogether satisfying conclusion in an intricate tapestry of the real and the supernatural, as the reformed Scrooge tries to satisfy a nagging feeling of something yet undone. ." . . intriguing and unusual. It's a very interesting idea to put a new text into an 'intertextual' relationship with a Dickens original. The treatment of the Jewish angle throws a sidelight on early C19th society and fictional representations of it at the time which is extremely interesting. I'm sure that many readers will find it fascinating . . . In short, a worthy endeavour with much that is thought-provoking." --Charles Palliser
"It's a brave soul who writes a sequel to a universally-loved and -known book like "A Christmas Carol"; it's a rarer man still who does a job as fine as Marvin Kaye of evoking Charles Dickens without imitating him, of extending a story that had until now seemed resolved and delivering a tale which will delight, terrify and affect all readers." --Kim Newman
"I was impressed and moved on many levels-not only by Marvin Kaye's mastery of Dickensian style, but also by a kind of optimism, or idealism, far more consistent with Victorian Dickens/Kaye than with purely contemporary Kaye. I can imagine that Marvin really did write it as Dickens might have wanted it to go." --Paula Volsky
"This is a magical, indeed a miraculous, story. Here is the vision of the Afterlife which Dickens did not address, but was the unanswered question at the end of his original tale. It is rare indeed when an author writes a sequel to some other author's work and does not diminish both. It's brilliant." --Morgan Llywelyn
"It's a brave soul who writes a sequel to a universally-loved and -known book like "A Christmas Carol"; it's a rarer man still who does a job as fine as Marvin Kaye of evoking Charles Dickens without imitating him, of extending a story that had until now seemed resolved and delivering a tale which will delight, terrify and affect all readers." --Kim Newman
"I was impressed and moved on many levels-not only by Marvin Kaye's mastery of Dickensian style, but also by a kind of optimism, or idealism, far more consistent with Victorian Dickens/Kaye than with purely contemporary Kaye. I can imagine that Marvin really did write it as Dickens might have wanted it to go." --Paula Volsky
"This is a magical, indeed a miraculous, story. Here is the vision of the Afterlife which Dickens did not address, but was the unanswered question at the end of his original tale. It is rare indeed when an author writes a sequel to some other author's work and does not diminish both. It's brilliant." --Morgan Llywelyn
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166 pages, Paperback
First published August 1,2003
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166 pages, Paperback
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October 5, 2005 by Wildside Press
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9781592241330
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1592241336
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English
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I really liked this book. I liked the Dickensonian (is that a word?) style of writing the most - really made me want to go back and read some of Dicken's works. I thought the story was good and added to the characters we met in A Christmas Carol. The theology in this one is all wrong from a Christian viewpoint - we aren't saved by our works, but that is my only complaint with the book.
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I continue my Christmas season reading of novels/books pertaining to Charles Dickens' A CHRISTMAS CAROL.
Marvin Kaye's THE LAST CHRISTMAS OF EBENEZER SCROOGE was another take of what came next for Scrooge and the many indelible characters. I always enjoy seeing someone else's creativity put to work when establishing new plotlines or digging into the lives and events of characters from this classic work.
The novel opens up with a young street urchin named Paulie who is going about looking for ways to make money to buy his mother medicine for her ailments. Just when it seemed like too much time was being spent on this unnecessary character, Kaye reveals that Paulie was the 'turkey boy' --- or young man Scrooge paid on Christmas morning to go to the butcher's to buy the Cratchit's their prize goose.
At times, it seems like the novel was unsure what its aim was. Scrooge and Cratchit were now partners, but Scrooge (now 11 years removed from his own reclamation) is on a mission to complete some unfinished business. His travelling companions for this journey are young Paul 'Paulie' (who is revealed as a young Jewish lad that reminded Scrooge of his late partner Jacob Marley who was also Jewish) and Tim Cratchit (now years removed from his life-threatening illness).
The mission involves paying back Jacob Marley for his work in saving Scrooge's soul. Although I found parts of the latter section of the book a tad absurd, it was well worth it to spend some more time with these beloved characters.
Marvin Kaye's THE LAST CHRISTMAS OF EBENEZER SCROOGE was another take of what came next for Scrooge and the many indelible characters. I always enjoy seeing someone else's creativity put to work when establishing new plotlines or digging into the lives and events of characters from this classic work.
The novel opens up with a young street urchin named Paulie who is going about looking for ways to make money to buy his mother medicine for her ailments. Just when it seemed like too much time was being spent on this unnecessary character, Kaye reveals that Paulie was the 'turkey boy' --- or young man Scrooge paid on Christmas morning to go to the butcher's to buy the Cratchit's their prize goose.
At times, it seems like the novel was unsure what its aim was. Scrooge and Cratchit were now partners, but Scrooge (now 11 years removed from his own reclamation) is on a mission to complete some unfinished business. His travelling companions for this journey are young Paul 'Paulie' (who is revealed as a young Jewish lad that reminded Scrooge of his late partner Jacob Marley who was also Jewish) and Tim Cratchit (now years removed from his life-threatening illness).
The mission involves paying back Jacob Marley for his work in saving Scrooge's soul. Although I found parts of the latter section of the book a tad absurd, it was well worth it to spend some more time with these beloved characters.
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