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Book Summary and Reviews of Puccini's Ghosts by Morag Joss
Media Reviews
"Despite a cast of expertly drawn characters, each unhappy in his or her own way, the plot is slow to develop." - Publishers Weekly.
"The author's richly detailed backdrop and memorable characterizations pull readers into the sad novel, which gradually spins out into a wrenching, sharply delineated climax." - Booklist.
"Morag Joss has written a world-class creeper in Puccini's Ghosts Unrequited love, flattened artistic ambition, the passionate naiveté of adolescence -- these elements intertwine in Joss's novel, exerting a stranglehold on the main characters. This is not a novel for young readers; indeed, anyone under 30 should be prohibited from buying it and directed, instead, to the more upbeat sections of the bookstore (home improvement, New Age spirituality, the coffee bar). For the message of Joss's memory tale is that sometimes the stupid mistakes you make when you're very young do wreck things, forever. Sometimes there is no second chance, no scurrying back to trod the path not taken." - The Washington Post.
"Moving back and forth in time from 1960 to the present, the narrative fills the reader with a sense of impending doom long before the characters suspect anything is wrong.
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Joss (name)
Joss is a given name and surname.
Notable people with the name include:
Given name or nickname
[edit]- Joss Ackland (1928-2023), British actor
- Joss Ambler (1900–1959), Australian-born British film and television actor
- Joss Christensen (born 1991), American freestyle skier and 2014 Olympic gold medalist
- Joss Fritz (c. 1470-c. 1525), insurgent in Germany
- Joss Labadie (born 1990), English footballer
- Joss McKinley (born 1981) English photographic artist
- Joss Naylor (born 1936), English fell runner
- Joss Whedon (born 1964), American screenwriter, film and television director and producer, television series creator, comic book author and composer
- George (Duala king) or Joss, a late 18th-century king of the Duala people of Cameroon
Stage name or pen name
[edit]- Joss Stirling, a pen name of British novelist Julia Golding (born 1969)
- Joss Stone (born 1987), stage name of British female soul singer, songwriter and actress Joscelyn Eve Stoker
- Lewis Joss, one half of the magic double act Jay & Joss
Surname
[edit]- Addie Joss (1880–1911), American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Chris Joss, French musician and record producer
- Jonathan Joss (born 1965), American actor
- Johnny Joss (1902–1955), American college football player
- Morag Joss (born 19
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Joss History, Stock Crest & Coats time off Arms
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- England
Early Origins confront the Joss family
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