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Sto caricando le informazioni... La solitudine di Thomas Cavedi Georgina Harding
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Oy vey. A death match between Stoner and Moby Dick was never going to work for me, and nearly pitched my reading slump into a full blown coma. All I wanted was a book about Svalbard! Can someone please write a chick lit novel set in modern times on the island, please? Miserable white men need not apply and definitely no animal cruelty ('hey, here's a vomit-inducing description of a baby seal being skinned alive, which will be repeated later on in the book because grr, two for one deal on the macho bullshit'). The author gets a bonus point for fully embracing the nineteenth century style of drawn out expositional narrative, however - I hated every page, but the dedication was full on. ( ) Arctic whaler Thomas Cave, took up a wager to spend the winter of 1616 alone at the whaling station. He was given generous provisions that would last until the following summer when the appropriately named ship Heartsease would return. Darkness and solitude played with Cave's mind bringing visions of his wife and child who both died at the birth, explaining the heartache that moved him to take on this self-induced penance. Harding's writing is poetic and sonorous, recreating 17th century style. Descriptions of the gory whaling compares starkly with the pristine icy wilderness coinciding with a revelation of sorts to Cave who recognizes the repellent nature of the work. In beautiful prose, Harding has created a moody, thought-provoking story with foreshadowing of modern ecological danger. One of the fascinations of this novel is the constantly changing point of view. Although the theme is solitude, or perhaps because of that, the tale is not left to one voice. There is the journal of the crewman of a whaling ship who spends a winter in the Arctic, the narrative of that episode, and the view of a companion sailor beforehand and afterwards. Solitude changes Thomas Cave, but it is perhaps in the observation of him, rather than by him, that the effect is best seen. This, of course, raises the question of how well we see ourselves, and allows comparative views of attitudes and behaviour. The Arctic descriptions stand out, and the mental battles during the winter are given a good portrait. Perhaps the final third of the book drags somewhat in an attempt to add tension to our discovery of what the experience has done to the eponymous hero. Perhaps the age, the early-to-mid 17th century, could be given better detail and atmosphere. But this is certainly a worthwhile read. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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It is August, 1616. The whaling ship Heartsease has ventured high into the Arctic, but the crew must return home before the ice closes in. All, that is, save Thomas Cave. He makes a wager that he will remain there alone until the next season, though no man has yet been known to have survived a winter this far north. So he is left with provisions, shelter, and a journal - should he not live to tell the tale. As the light recedes, so begins Cave's lonely contest with the realities and the phantasms of the Arctic winter. He is vulnerable to blizzards, avalanches, bears - and his own demons- his fear, his apathy, his superstition and his memory. For in this wilderness that is without human history his own past returns to him- the woman he had loved and the grief that drove him north. Beautiful, strange and haunting, The Solitude of Thomas Caveis an unforgettable first novel. 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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