Jennifer Paynter
Autore di The Forgotten Sister
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: from author's webpage
Opere di Jennifer Paynter
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Goodbye to Romance: Stories by New Zealand and Australian Women Writers, 1930-1988 (1989) — Collaboratore — 10 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1944
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Australia
- Nazione (per mappa)
- Australia
- Luogo di nascita
- Sydney, Australia
- Luogo di residenza
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Attività lavorative
- playwright
reporter, Sydney Morning Herald
novelist
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 1
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 93
- Popolarità
- #200,859
- Voto
- 3.2
- Recensioni
- 7
- ISBN
- 4
- Lingue
- 1
Paynter does not focus on simply retelling Austen's story, but departs from it into the things that are central to Mary's life and separate from her sisters. This allows for reading the book with both a sense of the familiar that the characters provide but also a sense of the undiscovered that is necessary to keep an interest. Of course, no one can really retell Pride and Prejudice, Austen has achieved perfection--nothing else required.
By a short distance into the book, this becomes Mary's story and hers alone. Paynter has done a good job of imagining what that story would be and weaving Mary into a character that has depth. If I had any complaint it would be with the departures that she makes from the original character traits that we feel we KNOW about both Jane and Elizabeth. The other characters are not vastly changed, although Mr. Bennet is given a less kindly demeanor...but then it isn't unreasonable to think that different daughters might view their father differently. I am sure that there were sides to my father that my sisters failed to see or appreciate in the same way that I did.
While not an exciting or phenomenal read, this was a bit of fun and not entirely disappointing. I would like to see what Paynter is able to do with an original subject that does not have a background story upon which to build. Her writing style is quite nice and her ability to describe places and people vividly drew me into the story when it departed from the original.… (altro)