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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Facts of Life (1995)di Patrick Gale
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. A composer who finds success in his later years surveys his grandchildren as they come to terms with the harsher facts of modern life. A young composer, Edward Pepper, is exiled from his native Germany by the war, struck down with TB, and left to languish in an isolation hospital. But then he falls in love with his doctor, Sally Banks, and his world is transformed. They set up home in a bizarre dodecahedral folly, The Roundel -- a potent place, which grows in significance as it bears witness to their family's tragedies and joys. The years pass, and Edward watches from this sanctuary as both his grandchildren, Jamie and Alison, fall prey to the charms of Sam, an enigmatic builder, and have to come to terms with some of the tougher facts of life. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
A brilliant novel from the author of 'Notes from an Exhibition' - that follows three genrations of an unusual family as they confront the harsher facts of modern life. A young composer, Edward Pepper, is exiled from his native Germany by the war, struck down with TB, and left to languish in hospital. But when he falls in love with his doctor, Sally Banks, his world is transformed. But despite his new life with Sally, Edward is haunted by memories of his Jewish family, who he was forced to abandon. When he receives news that his sister has been found alive, it sets in motion a train of events that will test Edward and his family. Years later, Edward watches his grandchildren make their own lives and a few mistakes along the way. As they struggle to keep the family intact, they are forced to come to terms with some of the tougher facts of life. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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This second part took a while to get into. I missed the familiar old characters, and it was hard to warm to the new ones. I felt something like grief for the years I had hoped would be covered and which were instead skipped wholesale. Gradually, though, I was drawn into the modern story, and its warts and all coverage of the AIDS epidemic. It's no-holds-barred stuff, and one section involving vegetables seems calculated to put even the most committed vegan off his lunch.
I felt sure there must be some purpose to having the two sections set in such different times, and the book kept hinting at connections between the holocaust and the AIDS epidemic (to the horror of some of the characters). Maybe that was it, though I feel sure there must be more.
I don't think Patrick Gale is capable of writing a bad book, and this is another good read, if the structure was odd. And it's by far the best book I ever read featuring a dodecahedral folly, a statistic that I suspect will endure. ( )