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Sto caricando le informazioni... Sacred Country (1992)di Rose Tremain
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. What a beautifully written book. The theme in the foreground of the story's plot is about gender identity, but there is a larger theme in the background, which is an exploration of identity writ large--how we find out who we are, how we try to live in a way that is truthful to that understanding, and the difficulties of both of these efforts in the midst of other people's needs and expectations of us. ( ) It took me a while to settle into this novel, it was about 100 pages before I was enjoying reading it and had figured out clearly who all the different characters were. Mary / Martin and her family, the Wards, Sonny, her father, Estelle, her mother and Tim, her brother. The novel begins with the ridiculous scene of them gathering in a Suffolk field in February 1952, remembering the dead king with a two minute silence that may or may not have been at the correct time. It was in this field in this 'unsynchronised silence' that Mary realised she was a boy, not a girl. Other characters appear, the Loomis family, the local butchers and baby Pearl and her mother Irene and Mr Harker who made cricket bats. They are all from the same Suffolk village. The novel moves through the years, often jumping a couple and we hear from different characters, mostly Mary / Martin and Estelle but occasional Tim. Being yourself in a small village was always going to be problematic and characters moved to London and then the USA, where under big skies opportunities open out. Once I settled into this novel I couldn't put it down. The theme of light and dark kept coming up. The psychiatrist with the dark room lit only by fish tanks. The room in Earl's Court Mary rented that had little natural light but sounds filtered in through am airwell. In Tennessee the sky was everywhere. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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With an Introduction by Peter TatchellWe're all something else inside...1952. Standing in a cold Suffolk field with her family, six-year-old Mary Ward has a revelation- I am not Mary. That is a mistake. I am not a girl. I'm a boy.So begins Mary's heroic struggle to change gender. Moving from the claustrophobic rural community of the 1950s to London in the swinging Sixties and beyond to the glitter of America in the Seventies, Sacred Country is the story of a journey to find a place of safety and fulfilment in a savage and confusing world.Over a million Rose Tremain books sold'A writer of exceptional talent ... Tremain is a writer who understands every emotion? Independent I'There are few writers out there with the dexterity or emotional intelligence to rival that of the great Rose Tremain? Irish Times'Tremain has the painterly genius of an Old Master, and she uses it to stunning effect? The Times'Rose Tremain is one of the very finest British novelists? Salman Rushdie'Tremain is a writer of exemplary vision and particularity. The fictional world is rendered with extraordinary vividness? Marcel Theroux, Guardian Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)823.914Literature English English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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