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Title	:	Stones for Ibarra
Author	:	Harriet Doerr
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 224 pages
Published	:	January 8th 1985 by Penguin Books (first published 1984)
Categories	:	Fiction. Literary Fiction

Stones for Ibarra

Harriet Doerr

Paperback | Pages: 224 pages

Rating: 4 | 3799 Users | 314 Reviews

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Richard and Sara Everton, just over and just under forty, have come to the small Mexican village of Ibarra to reopen a copper mine abandoned by Richard's grandfather fifty years before. They have mortgaged, sold, borrowed, left friends and country, to settle in this remote spot; their plan is to live out their lives here, connected to the place and to each other.
The two Americans, the only foreigners in Ibarra, live among people who both respect and misunderstand them. And gradually the villagers--at first enigmas to the Evertons--come to teach them much about life and the relentless tide of fate.

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Original Title:	Stones for Ibarra
ISBN:	0140075623 (ISBN13: 9780140075625)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	National Book Award for First Work of Fiction (1984), PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Nominee (1985), California Book Award for Fiction (Silver) (1984), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (1984)

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This is a book of short stories, all about people who live in a very small town in Mexico. There are two main characters, and you're told in the first few pages, among other spoilers, that one of them dies in a couple years and the other leaves the town after that, so you have no interest in "what happens". The short stories are either directly related to the couple or are stories they've heard about other people in the town. You don't get to know anyone personally, and the stories are not that

A delightful, unusual little novel, Harriet Doerr's debut when she was 73. A middle-aged American couple uproot themselves, moving to a small Mexican town to reopen the copper mine the man's grandfather had abandoned a half century before. The relations between the townspeople and the Americans are chronicled with lyrical, Marquezian verve. Most of Doerr's eccentric choices about what to put in and what to leave out were intriguing; the chapters that focused on the non-believing Americans's

I wanted to love this book...people I trust tout it as their favorite, but I just didn't. Perhaps it's the disjointed nature of the stories, but I just couldn't get involved with any of the characters. The writing has some beautiful little gems along the way--exquisite when you find them--but I'm not sure I found them worth the digging. Perhaps if I'd "gotten it" earlier that this was not a single story, but a series of barely connected stories, I might have enjoyed it more. I kept trying to tie

Each time I read this book, I love it more. The language is beautiful and the imagery is striking. It's a gorgeous sketch of a couple's life in the presence of illness and eventual death. Each time I read it, I learn more about the simplicity of language, the beauty of paragraphs, and the colors and smells that can hold scenes and chapters together. I must have read the book half a dozen times or more--and still, I lose myself in it and make the story new all over again.

Stones for Ibarra is one of those books which should be read at least once in life. I thought that I will like this book as much as I like To Kill a Mockingbird or Frankenstein but I just couldn't. However, what made Stones for Ibarra a rediscovery of life for the Evertons was the division of chapters in stories of the people of Ibarra. If nothing else, Ibarra isn't one of those honest-to-God small towns in far off rural Mexico. While the community of Ibarra, from the cura to Remediosa Acostas,

11. Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerrpublished: 1984format: 214 page paperbackacquired: inherited from my neighbor upon his moveread: Feb 20-24rating: 4Doerr's claim to fame seems to be that she published her first book, this one here, at the ripe young age of 74. She outlived her husband, who died of leukemia, and then went back to school to complete her unfinished BA and that led to here.Gentle and atmospheric are two things I struck me initially on starting this. Richard Everton abandons his

I read this book right after Death Comes for the Archbishop, a very old book with a similar structure of short stories embedded in a longer narrative, and right before Sacred Games, a brand new book (up for the NBCC this year) with the same. All very different books, though, which to me shows the versatility of this technique. I loved, loved, loved the Willa Cather book and only really really liked this one, though, I think because this novel was primarily atmospheric. I liked sinking into its