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Subject: Has anyone read Glimpses From The Edge by Dan Bruder

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Date Posted: 13:01:21 12/06/02 Fri

I was turned on to this really cool book by a new author named Dan Bruder..I see there is another forum dedicated to it. Has anyone in this group read it? This was a review that I thought summed it up quite well.

Glimpses From The Edge Captures Life In New Jersey -- NRW, 06:05:34 10/31/02 Thu
National Reader Weekly - Oct.30, 2002
GLIMPSES FROM THE EDGE, A MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE
If one could dig up a time capsule in what were the suburbs of Newark a hundred years from now, they would most likely find a copy of Glimpses From The Edge by Dan Bruder. This book is a collection of his memoirs gathered from a wide range of experiences over the last half of a century growing up and living in Northern New Jersey. If the book was an attempt to chronicle the times, it would have failed, but the fact that it is one man's honest recollection of his little slice of a time gone by makes it personal and believable. He drags the reader through his high school life during the Vietnam Conflict, which includes his self-indulgances, attempt at stardom and his employment calamities. Even though the motive is to tell his tale, he inadvertently paints a vivid picture of the era. As he ages, and attempts to mature, he is faced with issues of parenting, marriage, illness and financial challenges. As he put it, "To those of us who lived through those times it is memories and to those who are younger it is important history." Uncork this bottle and see what flows out, it is worth it. It is published on 1stBooks Library.

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[> Subject: Re: Has anyone read Glimpses From The Edge by Dan Bruder
Author: Maar222 [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 06:55:38 12/18/02 Wed Read it too. It was a good reminder of my youth in NJ. I also recommend it.

[> Subject: Re: Has anyone read Glimpses From The Edge by Dan Bruder
Author: Samson [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 15:15:34 01/28/03 Tue I enjoyed Glimpses and thought Bruder did a good job of telling little sniplets of his life.

[> [> Subject: Re: Has anyone read Glimpses From The Edge by Dan Bruder
Author: janie [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 10:27:03 06/19/03 Thu I also enjoyed Glimpes from the edge...I found it provocative and interesting.

[> Subject: Re: Has anyone read Glimpses From The Edge by Dan Bruder
Author: Lanni J [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 11:32:18 02/27/03 Thu LA Times Book Awards Announced for 2002 - ... novel," called the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, honoring the late LA Times book editor and Book Prize founder. ... Glimpses from The Edge-by Dan Bruder. ... http://contemporarylit.about.com/library/weekly/aa043002.htm [More results from contemporarylit.about.com]