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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Seven Sisters (2002)di Margaret Drabble
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Hmmm. So-so. I did get annoyed that the term "en effet" was used 3 times in 5 pages - I couldnt work out whether it was Drabble or the narrator trying to be overly pretentious.[return][return]Did pick up because I thought there was going to be more about the trip to the Sorrento area of Italy, but was dispappointed that it was dominated by the journal entries of a slightly bitter "deserted" woman, living in near poverty in London Te lezen als je zelf niet meer die fitte bie van 40 bent. Intrigerend boek over ouder worden, herinneringen, vriendschapsbanden aanknopen en aanhalen, gemiste kansen. Niet erg opbeurend op het eerste zicht, maar met veel verborgen draden en connecties. Rode draad is de tocht van Aeneas (Virgilius boek 6), een tocht die deels hernomen wordt door de 'zeven zussen = bijeengewaaide vrouwen: schoolvriendinnen, dorps- en stadsgenoten met als kern het groepje oudere vrouwen die het Latijn en meer bepaald Virgilius terug oppikken in Londen). Het tweede deel van het boek, de Italiaanse reis is het mooiste en meest hoopvolle deel. Knappe pen, die Drabble, maar dat wisten we al langer. Een aanrader voor een beperkt publiek, ideaal leesclubboek.
How successful would Margaret Drabble's publishing career be if she started out today? The doyenne of the "Hampstead dinner party" novel has become unfashionable, and this 2002 novel does not suggest that she was interested in reinventing herself. Which is possibly why it works so beautifully. . . . Drabble possesses the rare and wonderful gift of making her characters seem utterly real. The narrative takes several surprising turns, throwing the reader as off-center as Candida has become and proving that Candida herself has not been candid. But Drabble has: Candida's evasive account accurately charts the psychological territory of one who is suddenly cast adrift.
From the celebrated author of The Peppered Moth and The Witch of Exmoor, a splendid novel about starting over late in life Candida Wilton-a woman recently betrayed, rejected, divorced, and alienated from her three grown daughters-moves from a beautiful Georgian house in lovely Suffolk to a two-room walk-up flat in a run-down building in central London. Candida is not exactly destitute. So is the move perversity, she wonders, a survival test, or is she punishing herself? How will she adjust to this shabby, menacing, but curiously appealing city? What can happen, at her age, to change her life? And yet, as she climbs the dingy communal staircase with her suitcases, she feels both nervous and exhilarated. There is a relationship with a computer to which she now confides her past and her present. And friendships of sorts with other women - widows, divorced, never married, women straddled between generations. And then Candida's surprise inheritance... A beautifully rendered story, this is Margaret Drabble at her novelistic best. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)823.914Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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