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Sto caricando le informazioni... Shade: A Novel (edizione 2004)di Neil Jordan (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I found the premise of this book very intriguing. However, as I started to read the book I was a little disappointed. The dialogue throughout most of the book is unbelievable, most adults don't talk like that let alone children. I found it hard to identify with the characters, and throughout most of the book just wished the story would end already. About three quarters of the way through the book I found it enjoyable again. Though the story didn't live up to my expectations Jordan's prose t...moreI found the premise of this book very intriguing. However, as I started to read the book I was a little disappointed. The dialogue throughout most of the book is unbelievable, most adults don't talk like that let alone children. I found it hard to identify with the characters, and throughout most of the book just wished the story would end already. About three quarters of the way through the book I found it enjoyable again. Though the story didn't live up to my expectations Jordan's prose though the whole book is beautiful The story itself is in many ways lacking. It's hard to enjoy at the beginning, hard to get a grasp for who is speaking. Hard to differentiate between Nina before and Nina after. The writing is lovely. The descriptions are at times heart breaking. It's the outside view of a life, told by the ones who lived it, both during and removed from, and that which will destroy it. It's a doomed path from the beginning and you almost ache to want to change things, even a little. But very true to reality in that one cannot change the past, change the choices that lead them to where they end up. You can only let it happen and hope for the best. 4149 Shade A Novel, by Neil Jordan (read 7 Apr 2006) This is a 2004 novel by an author who lives in Dublin, Ireland. It tells the story of Nina Hardy, who in the opening pages is murdered by her childhood companion, George. Nina is the daughter of rich Irish people, living in a big house near the Boyne, while George and his sister Janie are poor neighbors. George is in love with Nina but the difference in class makes marriage unimaginable. The story seems rather pretentious--much high-flown dramatic woefulness, and not really very meaningful that I can see, though it holds itself out as very portentous. The flashbacks often alternate between the characters, with at times it being an effort to know who "she" and "he" refer to. The male characters go to the Dardanelles in 1915, and of course only evil befalls them there. A well-written book, but I could not feel it told a momentous story. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Set in Ireland between the 1900s and 1950s, SHADE is a haunting novel of love and war. Beginning with a violent and mysterious murder, SHADE tells the story of two pairs of siblings growing up in Ireland in the first half of the century and how their lives interweave. Through a childhood that memory will give the luster of romance and the tragedy that comes as the children's innocence ends and the two boys leave for the Great War, these unforgettable characters reach mid-century inexorably moving towards playing roles in the brutal murder that begins the novel---a murder that may ultimately be revealed as the opposite of the senseless crime it seems. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)823.914Literature English English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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Jordan's use of the language is compellilng, poetic and sometimes almost entrancing. The tone of the story is so languid and detached, however, that it is very hard to care about the characters, even as their lives take extraordinary twists and turns and are subject to tragedies which, in another context, would be very affecting. This is one of those books that seems to cry out to be a film, and I realized after I had finished it that much of Jordan's work is in that media. ( )