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Sto caricando le informazioni... Across Open Grounddi Heather Parkinson
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Parkinson has created two memorable characters in Walter and Trina, seventeen year-olds who come together in 1917 rural Idaho and discover the aching sweetness of young love. But there is brutality, violence and heartbreak here too, as the world and the war all too soon intrude on these two young peple's idyllic relationship. Parkinson displays a remarkable facility for dialogue, and her male characters are as fully developed and real as the women in this respect. This is especially noticeable in the rude and rowdy exchanges between the young doughboys made old before their time by the horrors of combat. The sloping mountains and grassy pastures of Idaho, as well as the cratered landscape of war are made equally real in turn. This is quite simply a beautifully told story that left me hoping for a sequel. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
With echoes of Cormac McCarthy, an exquisite debut novel from America's heartland. Seventeen-year-old Walter Pascoe sets out for his first season as a sheep herder and learns quickly the dangers and beauties of the land. Also awakening to matters of the heart, Walter falls in love with a beautiful trapper named Trina Ivy. As they grow closer, America is on the brink of entering the First World War, and is beginning to feel an economic strain and a growing sense of patriotism. When Walter is drafted, he is bound by duty to leave the land and his lover to serve his country. With an economic eloquence and an ear for the poetry that permeates life lived close to the land, Parkinson deftly illuminates the rituals and disturbances of her characters' world. She sketches the strong bonds and shifting alliances, the intimacy and insularity of family and social life in the fledgling towns of the American West. Amidst the quiet passion that builds between lovers kept apart by miles of prairie and months of seasonal work, the slow specter of war is creeping over a world that heretofore had seemed immutable. An epic novel about the brutality of nature, the yearnings of first love and the realities of war, Across Open Ground is a remarkable achievement. Parkinson has written a deceptively quiet work of staggering depth, infused with dignity and heartwrenching emotion. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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