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On the Vineyard: A Year in the Life of an Island | 
 enlarge | Author: Jane Carpineto
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 2764260
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st ed
Pages: 242
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 1
ISBN: 0312155840
Dewey Decimal Number: 974.494
EAN: 9780312155841
ASIN: 0312155840
Publication Date: June 1998
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Product Description
Even before the Clintons made Martha's Vineyard one of their favorite vacation spots, the island had a firmly established reputation as a special place. In this profile, Carpineto interviews the natives to examine how the island has changed, where it has come from, and where it is going. of photos.
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 A bad book September 29, 2004
Charles in Boston (Boston)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
The problem with this book is not that it says bad things about the Vineyard - there are certainly bad things to be said, as well as good. It's that both the bad things and the good things are off. The book reads like the author had never been there, and in fact, it appears that her time there seems to have been merely a few short trips.
So as a book purporting to be about a place, it's about as useful as any other book about a place which the author clearly doesn't know. Any tourist to the Vineyard could have written as good, which is to say as bad, a book. Frankly, any tourist to anywhere could have written this, as long as they were armed with a vineyard map.
Hopefully someone will one day write the book this could have been. For now, this belongs in the fiction category, in my opinion.
This book doesn't get it August 5, 2000
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
As somebody who lives on the Vineyard part time, I have to say this book was a big disappointment. Not everything in it is off base, but in general it makes it clear that the author doesn't know the Vineyard very well at all. The island is a great place, but it does have its flaws. Unfortunately neither its greatness nor its flaws were captured in this book. From reading the reviews it would appear the book is more relevant to Wisconsin than the Vineyard.
This book is awful April 20, 2000
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
As someone who is intimately familiar with the Vineyard, I can't begin to describe how superficial, idiotic, and just plain awful this book is. In addition to being poorly written and uninformed, it reads as if the author just wanted to make some money and thought this would be a good way to do it. If you really want to learn about the vineyard, read the MV Times (MVTimes.com)
 Interesting,Sometimes Jarring, Reading January 29, 2000
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
Unlike one of the above reviews, I thought the portrait of Martha's Vineyard given here was eye opening and sometimes harsh, not "soft focus". As someone who has visited the Vineyard, I was put off by the frequent scapegoating of tourists, particularly the often reviled "daytrippers", for all of the islands' problems, by several of the year-round residents interviewed by the author. Believe it or not, some daytrippers actually have a love for this island and would like to support its "homegrown" businesses. It seems that a lot of MV's problems can be traced to 1)infighting by various constituencies w/in the island's year-round population,2)Greed of various developers/property owners, 3)media hype over the island resulting from various celebrities moving to/visiting the island(esp. the President). While I found this book so compelling, that I could barely put it down, it certainly made me think twice about moving to, or even visiting the island again.
 Anyone who lives in a tourist destination should read this. September 8, 1999
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
I found this book as amusing as it was enlightening. The author suceeds beautifully in capturing the dilemnas, discussions and dreams of the Vineyard which are so familiar to our midwest peninsula. The local observations captured in the book are the exact words you would hear in any one of our coffee shops. Anyone who is considering moving to their favorite vacation spot should read this book first.
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