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Sto caricando le informazioni... In Sunlight and in Shadow (originale 2012; edizione 2013)di Mark Helprin (Autore)
Informazioni sull'operaNella luce e nell'ombra di Mark Helprin (2012)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Mark Helprin surpasses all authors I’ve read in his ability to describe people, places, things, philosophical perspectives, feelings, music, art, moments . . .alright, ANYTHING, and move me to tears in the rapturous sublimity of it all. . .but that doesn’t mean, that while listening to the almost 30 hours of this book that I didn’t experience exasperation, and sadly, in the end, disappointment---maybe even anger over having invested so much time and admiration, for a broken promise that I would put the story away satisfied and content. ( ) I really wanted to like Mark Helprin. I floundered through "Winter's Tale" before attempting "in Sunlight and in Shadow," and made it to the requisite one-third point before gladly giving it up. The female protagonist, Catherine, is irritatingly beautiful and graceful and elegant, while stoutly defending her burden of being born to a wealthy family; the male protagonist, Harry, is unengaging and long-winded (or at least is described thus). The prose is lovely in small bites but overwhelmingly choppy and extraneous in a full reading.
It’s incredible that this story — or, to be more precise, these stories — hasn’t been told before. Except that, of course, it has, and they have . . . though never before in more than 700 consecutive pages, between the covers of one book. "In its storytelling heft, its moral rectitude, the solemn magnificence of its writing and the splendor of its hymns to New York City, the new novel [In Sunlight and in Shadow] is a spiritual pendant to 'Winter's Tale,' and every bit as extraordinary. . . . [T]he writing throughout 'In Sunlight and in Shadow' sounds as though it were scored to some great choral symphony." Elegant, elegiac novel of life in postwar America, at once realistic and aspirational, by the ever-accomplished Helprin. ... A fine adult love story—not in the prurient sense, but in the sense of lovers elevated from smittenness to all the grown-up problems that a relationship can bring.
Returning home after serving in World War II to run his family business in New York, paratrooper Harry Copeland falls in love with young singer and heiress Catherine Thomas Hale, who risks everything to break off her engagement to another man. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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