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Liesel Litzenburger

Autore di Now You Love Me

3 opere 55 membri 3 recensioni

Opere di Liesel Litzenburger

Now You Love Me (2001) 26 copie
The Widower: A Novel (2006) 26 copie
The Widower: A Novel (2006) 3 copie

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female
Luogo di nascita
Petoskey, Michigan, USA

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THE WIDOWER is a re-read for me. I first read it when it was new in 2006. It was a book I couldn't wait to read, since I'd heard the author, Liesel Litzenburger, read from the manuscript several months earlier at a writer's conference at the Interlochen Arts Academy. The story itself unfolded slowly, like a complex puzzle whose pieces slowly came together, first its borders, then its center, its heart. Set in an unnamed small town in northern Michigan, there are three main characters - the title character, Swanton Robey, widowed at 37, following a horrific auto accident that takes his wife's life. Horrifically scarred and broken, he is nursed back to a measure of health by Grace Blackwater, who has loved him for years. And there is also 70-ish Joseph Simon Geewa, a Native American local, just released after twenty years in Jackson Prison, where he'd been sentenced after shooting the man who killed his son, two tragic, likely accidental deaths. There is also a young girl and a baby who figure prominently, as well as an improbable road trip into rural Canada. And there is also Ray Ford, an EMT who saved Robey's life at the accident scene, but whose own personal life is in shambles. There are numerous flashbacks employed to get to the heart of things, to make the necessary connections. Litzenburger's language is something to savor. She was born in Petoskey and grew up in Harbor Springs - up in Hemingway country. Her writing is spare, precise, beautiful.

I don't re-read that many books, but THE WIDOWER was one which stayed in my head, haunted me. So now, here I am with it a dozen years later. And it blew me away all over again. The book got some great reviews, then sank like a stone. Never even made it to paperback. I don't get it. It is a haunting, heartbreakingly beautiful tale told in the most exquisite language imaginable. My highest recommendation.

- Tim Bazzett, author of the memoir, BOOKLOVER
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TimBazzett | 1 altra recensione | Dec 2, 2018 |
I enjoyed the story and the writing, however, it jumped around a LOT. I never got confused by it, but I did feel that it was a distraction to the story itself as you would have to take a second at the beginning of each chapter to figure out when it was taking place. Luckily each chapter starts out with the name of the character it was about so you didn't have to figure out that piece.
 
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lynnski723 | 1 altra recensione | Dec 31, 2016 |
This is well-written in an academic way; there is lots of style & the story is told in bits from many times, so you piece it together. I found the dialog hard to believe, and the plot too, plus she has Native American characters with special powers of seeing into the future, which I don't like. OK, so Joseph drags the damaged guy up to Manitoba just to put th baby on his other grandfather's grave...and then vanishes into the unknown. But why?
 
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franoscar | Jan 5, 2008 |

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3
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55
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½ 3.4
Recensioni
3
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