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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Longest Yeardi Daniel Grenier
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There's something extraordinary about Thomas Langlois. Thomas is a young boy growing up in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with a French-Canadian father, Albert, and an American mother, Laura. But beyond the fact that he lives between two cultures and languages, there's something else about Thomas that sets him apart: he was born on February 29.Before Albert goes on a strange quest to find out more about their mysterious relative, Aimé Bolduc, he explains to Thomas that he will only age one year out of every four and he will outlive all of his loved ones. Thomas's loneliness grows and the years pass until a terrible accident involving a young girl sets in motion a series of events that link the young girl and Thomas to Aimé Bolduc - a Civil War-era soldier and perhaps their contemporary. Spanning three centuries and set against the backdrop of the Appalachians, from Quebec to Tennessee, The Longest Year is a magical and poignant story about family history, fateful dates, fragile destinies, and lives brutally ended and mysteriously ext Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)843.6Literature French French fiction Revolution and empire 1789–1815Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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The story Grenier tells is a Methuselah tale, and one which doesn't bring much new to this oft-used literary device, and told from the perspective of an unreliable narrator. That choice brings to the telling a cool, distant tone, and in this reader's opinion did everything to alienate the reader from both the protagonist and the story. There was little in the way of pathos, of building a lifelike character who might rise from the pages and live in the reader's subconscious. Instead, we're subjected to a ponderous, pretentious and plodding story that shambles about between timelines.
I can think of many other such Methuselah stories which created a far more credible, engaging and sympathetic tales, (The Timetraveler's Wife, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, to name only two) and why The Longest Year was deemed worthy of such literary distinction is, for this reader, a mystery.
But there are many perspectives in the world, and this review is but one. ( )