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The Blank Wall di Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
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The Blank Wall (originale 1947; edizione 2003)

di Elisabeth Sanxay Holding (Autore)

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A wartime housewife is forced beyond the limits of her sheltered domestic world in order to protect her family in this 1947 classic. Praised by Raymond Chandler as "the top suspense writer of them all," Elisabeth Sanxay Holding excelled at the exploration of domestic unease. The Blank Wall exemplifies the drama of the sheltered housewife forced to take charge. While her husband serves overseas during World War II, Lucia Holley finds herself in the midst of a situation involving blackmail and manslaughter. She becomes quickly aware that the habits of her life, the domestic expectations that surround her, make it difficult for her to act with even the slightest independence, and she must herself begin to behave like a criminal in order to deal with a threat to her family of which they must never know. In the course of the action she becomes involved with a man who is a prototypical fallen angel, adding the possibility of forbidden romance. The ambivalence with which Holding depicts the household sphere that Lucia works so hard to protect is matched by her subtle exploration of questions of guilt and responsibility in a middle class facade of harmony.… (altro)
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Es una noche de mayo cargada de lluvia y tristeza, una de esas noches en que nadie debería estar solo. Corren los peores años de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y Lucía Holley, sentada en su habitación, escribe cartas afectuosas y aburridas al marido que está en Europa luchando. Abajo, en el salón, andan Bee y David, sus dos hijos adolescentes, y el padre de Lucía. Esa estampa típica de una familia americana de mediados del siglo pronto se verá trastocada por el asesinato de un hombre que intentaba seducir a Bee. De repente, los hechos se precipitan, y Lucía, ama de casa y madre ejemplar, será víctima de un extraño chantaje, una mezcla insólita de violencia y ternura a manos de un hombre que finalmente la obligará a replantearse su vida entera.
  Natt90 | Nov 25, 2022 |
Lonely wife Lucia Holley writes dull letters to her husband, serving in WW2. Meanwhile she, her affable elderly father and two judgemntal teenage kids - and a housekeeper - live a respectable life.
When 17 year old Bea is found to have been consorting - and writing incriminating letters- to a dodgy older man, Lucia is resolved to nip their liaison in the bud. However the situation goes horribly wrong...
This is a memorable work as it combines a tense-making thriller with really well drawn profiles of all the characters. Lucia feels overwhelmed, determined to keep her family together at all costs, to tell no one anything. She also feels dismissed and despised by Bea (who mocks her mother's uneventful life); criticized by David (she doesn't conform to what he expects of a mother) and inferior to the competent housekeeper.
Nothing is black and white- criminal Donnelly was arguably a finer character than Lucia... ( )
  starbox | Jun 5, 2022 |
What a great book--somehow this is at once completely of its time--maybe to some it would even be dated--and yet it feels completely fresh. Beautifully and economically written, and such a wonderful depiction of the heroine's interior life. ( )
  giovannaz63 | Jan 18, 2021 |
Finely drawn thriller, following a well-to-do housewife caught up in seedy underworld dealings while her husband is away fighting in WW2. All of the characters are well-developed, but the relationship between the mother and daughter in particular has an interesting trajectory. Holding even manages to make her villains appear sympathetic through sparse prose and an empathetic lens. ( )
  krtierney | Jan 5, 2021 |
Quick read about a woman in the 1940s and the depths she will go to protect her family. Lucia Holley does not like Ted Darby, a man with whom her 17 year old daughter Bee has become involved. Lucia tries to keep them apart, but that only drives them closer together. When Lucia discovers Ted dead in a boat near their home, she is frantic, and decides to hide the body.
This kicks off a series of events with unsavory characters. She is blackmailed by Nagle, and then further harassed by Donnelly.
This is a mystery written in 1947, with a mix of everyday life and extraordinary circumstances.

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  rmarcin | Mar 27, 2020 |
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She believed that a shell or a bullet could strike a brave or a hopeful man as readily as a miserable one. She did not believe that the guilty were always punished; or the innocent always spared. She believed, like Sibyl, that life was incalculable, and that the only shield against injustice was courage.
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A wartime housewife is forced beyond the limits of her sheltered domestic world in order to protect her family in this 1947 classic. Praised by Raymond Chandler as "the top suspense writer of them all," Elisabeth Sanxay Holding excelled at the exploration of domestic unease. The Blank Wall exemplifies the drama of the sheltered housewife forced to take charge. While her husband serves overseas during World War II, Lucia Holley finds herself in the midst of a situation involving blackmail and manslaughter. She becomes quickly aware that the habits of her life, the domestic expectations that surround her, make it difficult for her to act with even the slightest independence, and she must herself begin to behave like a criminal in order to deal with a threat to her family of which they must never know. In the course of the action she becomes involved with a man who is a prototypical fallen angel, adding the possibility of forbidden romance. The ambivalence with which Holding depicts the household sphere that Lucia works so hard to protect is matched by her subtle exploration of questions of guilt and responsibility in a middle class facade of harmony.

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