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This is a book in which a hundred fast-moving pages feel like a lifetime and everything looks different in retrospect. As in the real world, the reader’s point of view must change as often as those of the characters...This is one of the frankest novels ever written about love between a caregiver and a person with a degenerative disease. Premi e riconoscimentiMenzioniElenchi di rilievo
"Born in 1941, Eileen Tumulty is raised by her Irish immigrant parents in Woodside, Queens, in an apartment where the mood swings between heartbreak and hilarity, depending on whether guests are over and how much alcohol has been consumed. Eileen can't help but dream of a calmer life, in a better neighborhood. When Eileen meets Ed Leary, a scientist whose bearing is nothing like those of the men she grew up with, she thinks she's found the perfect partner to deliver her to the cosmopolitan world she longs to inhabit. They marry, and Eileen quickly discovers Ed doesn't aspire to the same, ever bigger, stakes in the American Dream. Eileen encourages her husband to want more: a better job, better friends, a better house, but as years pass it becomes clear that his growing reluctance is part of a deeper psychological shift. An inescapable darkness enters their lives, and Eileen and Ed and their son Connell try desperately to hold together a semblance of the reality they have known, and to preserve, against long odds, an idea they have cherished of the future. Through the Learys, novelist Matthew Thomas charts the story of the American Century, particularly the promise of domestic bliss and economic prosperity that captured hearts and minds after WWII. The result is a powerfully affecting work of art; one that reminds us that life is more than a tally of victories and defeats, that we live to love and be loved, and that we should tell each other so before the moment slips away. Epic in scope, heroic in character, masterful in prose, We Are Not Ourselves is a testament to our greatest desires and our greatest frailties."-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Ed è un idealista e rinuncia volentieri a un lavoro meglio remunerato, ad una bella e grande casa, ad una vita agiata circondato da amicizie perché si dedica anima e corpo al suo lavoro. Tocca ad Eileen che lavora come infermiera, affrontare ogni sacrificio soprattutto dopo la nascita di Connell, per riuscire ad acquistare una casa, arredarla, garantire gli studi al figlio. Ma il destino ha in serbo una tragedia: tocca ad Eileen affrontare una malattia crudele capace di distruggere tutto e lei lotterà fino alla fine, con una coerenza ed una forza d'animo inaudite. La storia di questa donna che incarna lo spirito self-made dell'America degli anni sessanta, che volta le spalle alle radici irlandesi guardando al sogno americano è raccontata in modo mirabile.
Commovente, profondo e senza alcuna retorica, il capolavoro di Matthew Thomas ha ricevuto ampi consensi negli Stati Uniti. ( )