Jane Feaver
Autore di According to Ruth
Opere di Jane Feaver
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1964
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Durham, County Durham, England, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Devon, England, UK
- Attività lavorative
- publishing
- Breve biografia
- Jane Feaver was born in Durham in 1964. After reading English at university she worked at the Pitt Rivers Museum and then in the Poetry Department at Faber and Faber. In 2001 she moved to Devon with her daughter.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 9
- Opere correlate
- 2
- Utenti
- 93
- Popolarità
- #200,859
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 4
- ISBN
- 19
- Preferito da
- 1
The main narrative voice is Ruth's - her story is told in the first person, beautifully capturing the pre-occupations and perceptions of a teenaged girl who bears the responsibility of being the eldest, who is struggling with all the usual longings, excitements, pains, fears and embarrassments of growing towards adulthood, while also trying to understand and cope with the fragmentation of her parent's marriage and the consequent threat to her familiar world. Other perspectives are briefly told too - her mother, the neighbouring farmer and his wife - but these are third-person narratives - we are not fully inside their heads as we are Ruth's. And Ruth, though she shows signs of immaturity and self-absorption which are not surprising in a teenager, also has sufficient empathy and imagination to reach beyond herself, picking up and reacting to some of the currents of grief and loss in others which are swirling around that summer.
She writes: "It is the hardest thing I've had to learn, losing things; so hard to stop the business of looking, of acquiring at all costs, to make good the loss."
I found much here that resonated, in emotional impact if not in narrative detail, with my own experiences. I appreciated the subtle, funny and beautiful way Feaver writes about love and loss. And as teenaged narrators go, give me Ruth any day over Holden Caulfield!
Highly recommended.… (altro)