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Sto caricando le informazioni... Now You See Herdi Whitney Otto
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Kiki Shaw, a single woman approaching her 40th birthday, discovers that she is slowly and intermittently disappearing, fading away. The cat walks through her foot. Coworkers raid her office supplies as she sits there. This tale of Kiki and her mother and friends (one having an affair with a married ex-boyfriend, another single secretary who cannot find lasting love, and a mother who left her father years ago for another man who soon left her widowed, and has always been fascinated with the photographs of Man Ray. The novel is absorbing and one comes to care for the characters, up until the conclusion when Kiki flees her disappearing life in America to travel to Europe, where she meets the ghost of her namesake, Man Ray's lover, the original flamboyant Kiki de Montparnasse. This Kiki enlightens our Kiki on the nature of disappearing, and Kiki eventually settles in Europe, where an older single woman is not looked on as an unnecessary organ. This is a disappointing ending to an intriguing premise, suggesting that an unmarried woman's sole recourse is to flee America for a more understanding and accomodating continent. A well-written book otherwise. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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"Graceful...Poetic...Otto's voice is sympathetic and direct, her imagination equally practical and romantic." --The Philadelphia Inquirer "ENCHANTING...ASTONISHING AND LOVELY." --Entertainment Weekly Kiki Shaw, a game show question writer, is about to turn forty. She doesn't mind that, except that she's also disappearing. Parts of her that were always there are vanishing, and no one seems to notice. As she contemplates this experience, Kiki makes certain discoveries about her life and those of the women closest to her. Perhaps they will all evanesce bit by bit, until they detect where they misplaced themselves and their once-promising lives (. As she did in her New York Times bestseller, How to Make an American Quilt, Whitney Otto has created a rich gallery of voices and lives that draws us in and pierces our perceptions of who we are or should be. "The sight of a work and talent in progress is welcome in the House of Fiction." --The New York Times "You are in the hands of a master. Now sit back and enjoy it." --The Hartford Courant "[This] gradually, even magically, unfolds to yield another of Otto's intricate, intimate tapestries." --Publishers Weekly Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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