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Tim: A Novel | 
 enlarge | Author: Colleen Mccullough
Publisher: Harpercollins
Category: Book
List Price: $15.95
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 1073912
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Pages: 248
Number Of Items: 1
ISBN: 0060128917
Dewey Decimal Number: 823
EAN: 9780060128913
ASIN: 0060128917
Publication Date: April 1974
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: 1974 harper and row hardcover book lots of wear and tear private library marking reading copy only
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Product Description
Mary Horton is content with her comfortable, solitary existence . . . until she meets Tim. A beautiful young man with the mind of a child -- a gentle outcast in a cruel, unbending world -- he illuminates the darkness of Mary's days with his boyish innocence. And he will shatter the lonely, middle-aged spinster's respectable, ordered life with a forbidden promise of a very special love.
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 Her finest work March 23, 2000
Lesley West (St James, Western Australia)
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
Colleen McCulloch has written many books but I consider this, a very early work, to be her finest. It is a simple story of unconventional love, beautifully told. The characters are very strongly drawn, and it is easy to identify with the feelings of Mary Horton as she comes to grips with her love for a young man so totally unlike her. It is a topic which could so easily have led to a different and tasteless result - instead it is a truly lovely book.
The way it should be February 18, 2000
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I read "Tim" many years ago and to this day it is my favorite book. I recently listened to the audio version and it really came alive. (If he/she is a good reader, audio is the best way to go) Neither the movie with Mel Gibson nor the made for TV "Mary & Tim" with the Murphy Brown character came very close to conveying the true depths of this love story. McCullough was able to reach down into the souls of these people and show their intrinsic beauty and describe a love that has nothing to do with age or appearance but everything to do with who these people are. When you were little and your mum told you that it's what's inside that counts, you believed her. But we all found out later that it isn't really like that. Ms. McCullough allows us to believe in that again, at least for a little while.
A repeat read September 10, 2002
Jennifer Terry (Parker, CO United States)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
As a person who adores both Harry Potter and Salman Rushdie, this is one of my all-time favorite books. I have read this book at least 8 times in the past few years, and I have lent it to many a friend and loved one. The story is engrossing, the characters are complex and endearing, and McCullough's writing is magical. As a writer and an editor, this is a story I appreciate every time I read it.
unconventional love story June 19, 2006
margaret krass (orlando, florida)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
this small book really packs a wallop! it is perhaps the best book i have ever read because it is such a wonderful love story without being sappy. two thumbs way up!
 Lovely romance uncluttered by conventional form. January 23, 2000
Cyndy (Colorado)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I don't like typical romance novels. I found in "Tim" an unconventional, simplistic and beautiful love story. After the first few chapters I was mesmerized by Mary and Tim and started to watch them fall in love. I shed many a tear reading this book and plan to reread it many times to enjoy another good cry.
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