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Sto caricando le informazioni... After the Sucker Punch: a Noveldi Lorraine Devon Wilke
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“After The Sucker Punch is an aptly named novel because it packs a mighty punch and raises so many questions, I was left literally reeling by the end of it. Lorraine Devon Wilke commands our attention with a splendidly dramatic opening and never lets us off the hook until the very last page. LDW has captured the spirit of family perfectly in that there is no perfect family. Her novel is funny, warm, tense, angry and ultimately shows us that life is to be lived and there’s no point in dwelling on the past.” “A sweeping, seventies, old school family saga that’s also long enough to engage you for a good week on the beach. In fact, it’s made for the beach and the airport. Beautifully written, light, accessible, I have yet to come across a book as good as this in Indie. In fact, you genuinely would not know this is an Indie book. It is sublime and – like many books we write – underappreciated, especially over here.” “A realistic and profound journey of realization and forgiveness…a solid novel that admirably explores the fragile, fraught relationship between parent and child.” “Four factors mark Lorraine’s brilliant debut as something special. Firstly, her characters. Each so individual, so distinctive and so well defined, you can tell who is talking without the character being named. That’s no mean feat. Secondly, the dialogue is crisp, sassy and real, patter so realistic, you can hear it taking place. Thirdly, the way Lorraine links and merges the historical comments Tessa reads in the journal into the real time narrative is shrewd and repays rereading.” “Full of heart, the essence of life and still sheds enough light to find the message of hope. This is powerfully written and I ate it up. Sharp, cunning and real. Loved the bluntness in the authors writing voice and the honesty. This is a very good read that amused me, entertained me and pulled me in.” Premi e riconoscimenti
They buried her father at noon, at five she found his journals, and in the time it took to read one-and-a-half pages her world turned upside down? he thought she was a failure. Every child, no matter how old, wants to know their father loves them, and Tessa Curzio ?? thirty-six, emerging writer, ex-rocker, lapsed Catholic, defected Scientologist, and fourth in a family of eight complicated people ?? is no exception. But just when she thought her twitchy life was finally coming together ?? solid relationship, creative job, a view of the ocean ?? the one-two punch of her father??s death and posthumous indictment proves an existential knockout. She tries to ??just let it go,? as her sister suggests, but life viewed through the filter of his damning words is suddenly skewed, shaking the foundation of everything from her solid relationship and winning job to the truth of her family, even her sense of self. From there, friendships strain, bad behavior ensues, new men entreat, and family drama spikes, all leading to her little-known aunt, a nun and counselor, who lovingly strong-arms Tessa onto a journey of discovery and reinvention. It??s a trip that??s not always pretty ?? or particularly wise ?? but somewhere in all the twists and turns unexpected truths are found. Author and longtime Huffington Post contributor, Lorraine Devon Wilke, takes an irreverent look at father/daughter relationships through the prism of Tessa??s unique saga and its exploration of family, faith, cults, creativity, new love and old, and the struggle to define oneself against the inexplicable perceptions of a deceased parent. Told with both sass and sensibility, it??s a story wrapped in contempor Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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So begins After the Sucker Punch by Lorraine Devon Wilke, an intense, emotional story about how Tessa and the rest of her five siblings try to reconcile the man they thought they knew with his painfully critical assessment of them all as portrayed in his daily journals – journals he specifically left for them to read upon his death.
As with all family dynamics, some children are more affected by their parent's behaviour than others, and for Tessa, it’s a devastating blow to her self-esteem and sends her life into a tailspin.
In an attempt for Tessa to understand her father’s motive and her role in what he wrote, Wilke skillfully eviscerates the Curzio family and tosses the entrails on the kitchen table for interpretation – an analysis that for many readers will strike close to home because what the author reveals is the universal need for children to feel loved and appreciated by their parents not so much because of what they achieve, but simply to validate that unique child-parent bond.
As the story unfolds it becomes apparent Tessa is prone to melodrama and one begins to wonder if she would have been more satisfied with an irresponsible father, but one who said “love ya” every time they parted, or the man who unstintingly sacrificed his entire life to provide for his family?
It’s a fine line between having Tessa appear shallow and whiney without diminishing her pain. It’s difficult to portray a protagonist in an unsympathetic light however that’s what makes this main character so authentic and the writing so convincing.
Wilke’s prose is powerful and gritty and the story well-structured. The characters are people you know or want to know (or maybe not), the conversations are ones you’ve had or wish you’d had, and the narrative is filled with life and energy like you hope yours is or will be.
An ambitious undertaking, the novel introduces multiple complex relationships as well as parallel subplots that examine friendships, love, faith, and career in our contemporary society.
An intriguing premise, After the Sucker Punch is professionally presented and makes for an entertaining and fulfilling reading experience. (