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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Divorato. Una storia affascinante che si deve leggere tutta d'un fiato ( ) ATTENZIONE!!! LA PRESENTE RECENSIONE PUO' CONTENERE ANCHE SPOLIERS!!! Questo libro mi ha piacevolmente sorpresa. La scrittrice ha ricreato un'epoca storica ben caratteristica (cioè quella inerente il processo alle streghe), trasmettendo così al lettore sensazioni ed emozioni forti man mano che i fatti si andavano svolgendo. Così attraverso vari salti tra presente e passato e attraversando varie generazioni di "streghe" la storia si delinea in tutta la sua semplicità, facendoci capire in questo modo l'ottusità del diciasettesimo secolo e di come le persone si lasciavano ingannare facilmente. La storia è ambientanta nello scorso decennio e attraverso le ricerche storiche della protagonista, Connie, ignara della sua discendenza da Deliverance Dane, veniamo alla conoscenza di fatti agghiaccianti che accadero alla fine del '600; i vuoti vengono colmati dalla scrittrice con vari scorci del passato che vanno dall'accusa di stregoneria della stessa Deliverance fino alla bisnipote di quest'ultima. Diciamo che il libro mi ha veramente presa: è completo... ... andiamo dalla storia, al giallo, al fantasy e non può mancare la storia d'amore, non solo fra Connie e Sam, ma l'amore che lega una madre al figlio anche attraverso i secoli.
I absolutely love the setup of having someone in the present investigating a story from the past, with the action moving between the two periods, but so very few authors do it well and get the balance right. Howe is one of those few. The action takes place mostly in the present, with the sparse sections set at the times of Deliverance and her descendents exactly enough to enrich the investigation and mirror and illustrate some of the developments in Connie's story. I also loved that Connie had to do proper detective work to uncover what had gone on in Deliverance's time. The last few books I read with this setup ...had the present-day protagonist just stumbling on stuff, and then doing nothing more strenuous than reading a diary. Connie isn't so lucky. She has to follow up on all sorts of sources, and since the book is set in 1991, this doesn't mean just going online and running a few searches. She needs to actually visit a variety of places and consult a whole lot of potential documents, from church archives to probate records, and when she does find something, she needs to interpret and decode what ambiguous records might mean and imply. ... Something I really ended up liking, though were the relationships in the book. There are a few false steps in the characterisations at the beginning, with people sounding a bit off... Howe soon hits her stride, and things feel much more natural. I liked Connie and Sam's romance, but I think my favourite was the way Howe develops the concept of mother-daughter relationships "The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane" is smart, and Howe's research translates into a vividly imagined narrative. The social forces driving Deliverance's life come alive, as do the realities of the not so distant pre-Internet and cellphone realities of Connie's world. The novel is a page-turner, but the characters, not the plot, dominate... The novel's weakness lies in the final pages, which beg credulity. That flaw shouldn't be a deal-killer. "The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane," up to that point, not only goes down smoothly but raises questions about society, and what might be taken for magic, that linger after the final page is turned. “The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane” does indeed perform a work of magic. Through a type of literary alchemy the current interest in novels tied to the Salem witch trial (“The Heretic’s Daughter” by Kathleen Kent and “The Lace Reader” by Brunonia Barry are just two examples), commingles with the plot of A.S. Byatt’s “Possession” (in which a graduate student stumbles upon a secret powerful enough to upend recorded history) and produces a new compound – in this case, one powerful enough to deliver a charming summer read. In her provocative debut novel, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, Katherine Howe pairs a scholarly search for a missing book with the thrill of spine-tingling witchery. I liked this book very much, but I want to ask the author's editor to please, in the future, keep her from wrapping or folding her characters' arms around their middles. And also point out that Connie's shoulder bag gets dropped on the floor so often it begins to sound like a character itself. But these are minor complaints. And by the end of this book, as any graduate student should, Katherine Howe has filled us in on much more than we used to know about that group of unfortunate women who paid the price of their lives due to a town's irrational fears.
While readying her grandmother's abandoned home for sale, Connie Goodwin discovers an ancient key in a seventeenth-century Bible with a scrap of parchment bearing the name Deliverance Dane. In her quest to discover who this woman was and seeking a rare artifact--a physick book--Connie begins to feel haunted by visions of the long-ago witch trials and fears that she may be more tied to Salem's past than she could have imagined. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche
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