Lisa Gorton
Autore di The Life of Houses
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Lisa Gorton is an Australian poet, essayist and fiction writer. She studied literature at the University of Melbourne and later studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar receiving her Masters in Renaissance Literature and her Doctorate on John Donne. She worked as a visiting tutor at Rhodes University, mostra altro South Africa during her studies. After returning to Australia, she released her first poetry collection Press Release (2007). It received the 2008 Victorian Premier's Literary award for poetry and the inaugural Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize. Hotel Hyperion (2013) was her second poetry collection and received the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal. Her first children's novel was Cloudland (2008). Her next novel The Life of Houses was published in 2015 and with it, became a joint winner of the 2016 Prime Ministers Award for fiction. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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The life of houses di Lisa Gorton
I love the cover of this book. The writing didn't fail either. The setting is very atmospheric. It is a quiet story revealing the truth about family relationships.
A slow, beautifully crafted book exploring family and home and the fundamental hold they can have on us, no matter how much we try to separate ourselves. The writing is crystalline - it's not surprising that Gorton made her name as a poet - and the characters are complex, frustrating and, ultimately, human. It's not a gripping page turner, but if you let yourself sink into the world that Gorton has created, there's a lot here to enjoy.
Review by Carissa Thorp
Lisa Gorton is a poet, and that background shows in Cloudland, her first novel for children. There's some beautiful writing here, conjuring images in the mind that make you stop and admire for just a second.
Lucy and her companion Daniel are drawn into a conflict in the clouds, above a rain-flooded earth, evoking a future consequence of climate change. But things aren't that simple. Lucy has been chosen as Cloudland's protector, a title and responsibility she doesn't want and tries to avoid, going her own way. But the ice queen, Kazia, must be stopped, for the deliverance of both worlds.
In Cloudland, there's class-struggle, danger, and a hitherto unknown world to explore, and for the most part it's engrossing stuff. However, I kept being pulled out of the story by the fact that Cloudland and its inhabitants just weren't very convincing as creations, especially, I think because of the story beginning in the real world; in contrast, Cloudland was a bit insubstantial (is that a pun? pardon, if so). And the real world problem of a flooded world was interesting as well, but only dealt with in passing. These may only be problems for older readers; younger readers, I hope, will be drawn into the unique world of Cloudland.… (altro)
Lisa Gorton is a poet, and that background shows in Cloudland, her first novel for children. There's some beautiful writing here, conjuring images in the mind that make you stop and admire for just a second.
Lucy and her companion Daniel are drawn into a conflict in the clouds, above a rain-flooded earth, evoking a future consequence of climate change. But things aren't that simple. Lucy has been chosen as Cloudland's protector, a title and responsibility she doesn't want and tries to avoid, going her own way. But the ice queen, Kazia, must be stopped, for the deliverance of both worlds.
In Cloudland, there's class-struggle, danger, and a hitherto unknown world to explore, and for the most part it's engrossing stuff. However, I kept being pulled out of the story by the fact that Cloudland and its inhabitants just weren't very convincing as creations, especially, I think because of the story beginning in the real world; in contrast, Cloudland was a bit insubstantial (is that a pun? pardon, if so). And the real world problem of a flooded world was interesting as well, but only dealt with in passing. These may only be problems for older readers; younger readers, I hope, will be drawn into the unique world of Cloudland.… (altro)
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