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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Invisible Hour (2023)di Alice Hoffman
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. The modern-day portions of the book were quite good. They followed Ivy as she fell in with a cult after facing rejection from her family and unborn baby’s father. Then, for a greater portion of the book, her daughter, Mia’s deprogramming and escape from the cult. Ivy’s feelings of entrapment and lack of options even as realizes she has made a mistake in joining the Community were heartbreaking and understandable, as was Mia’s awakening to all that the cult denied her. It was painful to see how their love and concern for each other both kept them trapped and gave them the strength to seek escape. The execution of the Nathaniel Hawthorne plot line, however, wasn’t all that it could have been. Some interesting bits were floating around in there — Nathaniel’s sister, Elizabeth, seemed like a character that could add to the themes of Mia’s and Ivy’s stories, and there were things to be said about women’s lives in this time and about romanticizing the past. But the magical elements didn’t mesh well with the rest of the story. The first half was grounded firmly in the real world with only the vaguest hint of what was to come, so the sudden introduction of magic that then took over the plot was jarring. The way the magic worked wasn’t clear to me either. How much people from the present traveling to the past impacted history seemed random. Also, the love story between Nathaniel Hawthorne and Mia wasn’t convincing. I understood Mia’s infatuation with Nathaniel — his book, The Scarlet Letter, played an important role in her life when she was on her to escaping the cult — but not so much Nathaniel’s sudden and supposedly profound love for her. It just… happened, but was played as as deep and consuming as Mia’s but without the reasoning behind it. I didn’t feel chemistry or accept the proposed love there. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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HTML:From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of The Marriage of Opposites and the Practical Magic series comes an enchanting novel about love, heartbreak, self-discovery, and the enduring magic of books. One brilliant June day when Mia Jacob can no longer see a way to survive, the power of words saves her. The Scarlet Letter was written almost two hundred years earlier, but it seems to tell the story of Mia's mother, Ivy, and their life inside the Community??an oppressive cult in western Massachusetts where contact with the outside world is forbidden, and books are considered evil. But how could this be? How could Nathaniel Hawthorne have so perfectly captured the pain and loss that Mia carries inside her? Through a journey of heartbreak, love, and time, Mia must abandon the rules she was raised with at the Community. As she does, she realizes that reading can transport you to other worlds or bring them to you, and that readers and writers affect one another in mysterious ways. She learns that time is more fluid than she can imagine, and that love is stronger than any chains that bind you. As a girl Mia fell in love with a book. Now as a young woman she falls in love with a brilliant writer as she makes her way back in time. But what if Nathaniel Hawthorne never wrote The Scarlet Letter? And what if Mia Jacob never found it on the day she planned to die? Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote: "A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities." This is the story of one woman's dream. For a little while it came tr 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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Mia is born into a New England cult. Her mother, a pregnant teenager, ran away from home and joined the cult, then married its dictatorial leader, Joel. Rarely is anyone allowed to leave the farm. Parents cannot raise their own children. No books are allowed. Everyone must work hard for the good of the community. Joel controls everything and everyone.
Even so, as a teenager Mia sneaks away to a nearby library, where she finds an old copy of Nathaniel Hawthorne's “The Scarlet Letter,” inscribed, amazingly enough, to her. She steals the book and reads it over and over again.
Later, after her mother's death and with the help of a librarian, Mia manages to escape the farm, but with Joel always in pursuit. She finds refuge back in time in the arms of a young Nathaniel Hawthorne, still struggling to write something worthwhile.
The theme of invisibility runs through Hoffman's book until, near the end, Mia sees the words of her favorite book disappearing and, looking into a mirror, sees that she herself is disappearing. She must return to her own time and let Hawthorne write his great book.
The novel may be about time travel, but don't call it science fiction. It is romantic fantasy, of the kind Alice Hoffman does so well. ( )