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Sto caricando le informazioni... A Fine and Private Place (1960)di Peter S. Beagle
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. If I read it two years ago, I would not have affected me the same way it does now. As is, I have a habit of reading before bed during my negative thought cycle and this book drew a lot of conscious and subconscious connections. Even during the day it was tough. I spent most of it with a wet face and it took me a long time to get through but it was good and I don't regret it. Just maybe wish I'd read it much sooner.. and again much later. ( ) Beagle’s leisurely and sweet fantasy touches equally on life and death, hope and despair, and the inevitability of change. Set in a New York City cemetery, it centers around Jonathan Rebeck, a man who lives in a mausoleum, talks to ghosts, and dines on food offerings delivered by a cynical talking raven. Neither Rebeck nor the reader is ever really sure exactly how this came about, but one day he was a pharmacist living a quiet, ordinary life, and the next he was living in a cemetery, welcoming the ghosts of the recently-departed as they make the difficult transition between worlds. It’s a limited life, but one that has suited Rebeck just fine for 19 years. Then a chatty Jewish widow, Gertrude Klapper, realizes it’s more than coincidence that she sees the solitary little man every time she comes to the cemetery to visit her late husband’s grave. The tentative developing relationship between these two, juxtaposed with the poignant story of two young ghosts who seem to have found love only after death, drive the story to its bittersweet conclusion. Things do drag a bit toward the middle of the book, and there are long blocks of dialogue or monologue that don’t do much to advance the story. But the reader who’s in the mood for pondering the Great Questions will find some enjoyment here. Four people -- two alive and two dead -- discuss love and loss in a cemetery overseen by an unsentimental raven. A Fine and Private Place has lots of charming parts, but its determinedly high-minded and philosophical intentions never integrate with the plot or the characters. The end result reads like a sober tract smothering a great short story.
A first novel that is both sepulchral and oddly appealing... a wry dialogue with death that may contain no large lump of wisdom but offers a fair selection of small ones. Appartiene alle Collane Editoriali
Conversing in a mausoleum with the dead, an eccentric recluse is tugged back into the world by a pair of ghostly lovers bearing an extraordinary gift-the final chance for his own happiness. When challenged by a faithless wife and aided by a talking raven, the lives of the living and the dead may be renewed by courage and passion, but only if not belatedly. Told with an elegiac wisdom, this & delightful tale of magic and otherworldly love & is a timeless work of fantasy imbued with hope and wonder. After multiple printings since 1960, this newest edition will contain the author's recent revisions and will stand as the definitive version of an ageless classic. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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