Isabel Zuber
Autore di Salt
Opere di Isabel Zuber
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1932-07-28
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Boone, NC
- Luogo di residenza
- Boone, North Carolina, USA
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA - Istruzione
- Appalachian State University, Boone, NC BA 1954
University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC MLS 1988 - Attività lavorative
- Librarian at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Lee Smith Award for Fiction, United States
University of Tennessee Press Short Story Prize, United States
First Novelist Award, United States - Breve biografia
- Isabel Zuber is an American librarian, author, and poet. She was a librarian at Wake Forest University for many years. She is the author of two collections of poetry, Oriflamb (1987), Winter's Exile (1997), Red Lily (2010). Her poetry and short fiction have appeared in a number of literary magazines.
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Premi e riconoscimenti
Statistiche
- Opere
- 2
- Utenti
- 68
- Popolarità
- #253,411
- Voto
- 3.3
- Recensioni
- 5
- ISBN
- 4
My biggest issue with this book was that I somehow felt like I was watching a silent movie as I read it. I felt very much outside the story. I got the feeling that this was done on purpose so that I the reader would be more focused on what the author was trying to show me rather than on how I felt about each character or event. It was effective, but I do like to feel a connection to the characters I read about, so it wasn't a style I cared for.
There was a lot going on in this book. The point didn't really seem to be the story itself, but rather to explore man's relationship to nature and also man's relationship to other men. What I took away was a message about humanity's need to dominate our surroundings and how futile that need is. Nature will win in the end. I also took away a message about the futility of our hopes and dreams and how we are ultimately so impermanent that we will be nothing more than a fleeting memory. This is all true, but it's a little bleak for my taste.
The author is a poet and it shows in her lyrical, yet succinct prose. She says a lot in such a relatively short book, but she says it beautifully.
Salt left me thinking, and I believe I will think about it for a long time. But ultimately I did feel too far removed from the story to give it more than three stars. This will appeal to those who are more interested in a message than in caring about characters. It was a strong book, it just wasn't necessarily to my taste.… (altro)