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Larque on the Wing di Nancy Springer
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Larque on the Wing (edizione 2014)

di Nancy Springer (Autore)

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A middle-aged housewife whose rebellious inner child runs away with her talent transforms herself into a fearless young gay man in this winner of the James Tiptree Jr. Award. Larque Harootunian is having a midlife crisis like no other--but then again, there is much about the frumpy, middle-aged housewife and mother that could never be considered ordinary. Larque's lifelong ability to generate "dopplegangers," for example--physical manifestations of her thoughts and emotions--has been a constant source of stress. And now she is being tormented by Skylark, a re-creation of her younger self, an angry inner child who is tormenting Larque about abandoning her youthful ambitions while running away with her artistic abilities, thereby depriving the older Larque of a livelihood as a painter of kitsch.   But perhaps this is Larque's opportunity to explore her options. Acquiescing to Sky's demands that she change herself, Larque tries on a series of different personas--to the consternation of her mother, husband, and teenage sons--and finds her way to Popular Street. There, among the devil-may-care misfits, Larque can be Lark, a handsome young gay man, and quite possibly discover what her life is really about.   In her critically acclaimed contemporary fantasy, multiple award-winning author Nancy Springer breaks through boundaries while provocatively comingling the real and the surreal. Larque on the Wing is a marvel--a moving, funny, surprising, and transcendent tale of one woman's strange quest to come to terms with who she truly is.… (altro)
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Titolo:Larque on the Wing
Autori:Nancy Springer (Autore)
Info:Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy (2014), 251 pages
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This book was packaged in a set of books that won the Tiptree award, and I took a look at it after reading the one I read the set for.
I understand Larque. I tried explaining the story to my husband and failed miserably because the whole story is a bit of a dreamscape. It's a story about a woman having a mid-life crisis in which she realizes some part of herself is starving and another part of herself isn't a woman at all. The remainder was very thoroughly shaped by her mother's inability to handle anything that isn't her estimation of perfect. I think if the story were written about a woman today going through this, the ending may have been different, but for the time period it seems to have gone the best for Larque.
Anyway, neat story dealing with gender and sexuality issues, though a bit behind what a similar story would look like set in today's times. This story feels like it was set in the 90's? So imagine accordingly if you pick it up.
When I went through my personal version of this journey I found a different ending myself, but that's all I'm ready to say right now. ( )
  Noeshia | Oct 23, 2020 |
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I confess I had never heard of Nancy Springer before reading this novel, which shared the 1995 James Tiptree Jr Award with "The Matter of Seggri". It turns out that she is much better known for her YA novels about Sherlock Holmes' smarter younger sister. I found Larque on the Wing a complete delight. The viewpoint character, Larque Harootunian, undergoes a mid-life crisis similar to that in Doris Lessing's The Summer Before the Dark, with the important difference that she is able to create doppelgangers of people she interacts with more or less by accident, and that her conservative mother is able to blink away undesirable characteristics of the people she interacts with. Larque reinvents herself as a young gay chap, to the dismay of her husband, and everyone needs to do some readjusting. The tone is comic but the foundations are hard. One of those cases where the awards system identified a good novel that might not otherwise have got much recognition from the genre. ( )
1 vota nwhyte | Nov 25, 2018 |
Very different from most of Springer's books, which tend toward classic fairy-tale fantasy. This one is more reminiscent of Margaret Atwood, with a thematic agenda of feminism, sexual relations and aging. The "fantasy" elements are more surreal than actual fantasy.
The protagonist, Lark, has always had a strange habit of summoning up what she calls doppelgangers – physical manifestations caused by her unbidden thoughts. As the story begins, she has created one that seems to be a particularly unpleasant incarnation of herself as a child. Lark comes to realize that not only does she not like this child who is herself, but she also dislikes her current self – overweight, married, and boring, not having lived up to everything that the child Lark had hoped for. Through encounters with a handsome and mystical gay man who also has powers of transformation – and with her mother, who has her own supernatural gift of denial – Lark goes through various transformations of identity and gender while coming to terms with her life as a middle-aged woman.
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  AltheaAnn | Feb 9, 2016 |
Oh, I love this book. A middle-aged woman is magically transformed into a young gay male and has the time of her/his life. And also rescues her marriage and does some other good deeds along the way. ( )
  aulsmith | Oct 5, 2014 |
An easy, engaging read with serious truths presented in a matter-of-fact and often humorous light. Was not pleased the the rushed ending WRT Shadow. ( )
  dwhapax | Dec 28, 2009 |
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A middle-aged housewife whose rebellious inner child runs away with her talent transforms herself into a fearless young gay man in this winner of the James Tiptree Jr. Award. Larque Harootunian is having a midlife crisis like no other--but then again, there is much about the frumpy, middle-aged housewife and mother that could never be considered ordinary. Larque's lifelong ability to generate "dopplegangers," for example--physical manifestations of her thoughts and emotions--has been a constant source of stress. And now she is being tormented by Skylark, a re-creation of her younger self, an angry inner child who is tormenting Larque about abandoning her youthful ambitions while running away with her artistic abilities, thereby depriving the older Larque of a livelihood as a painter of kitsch.   But perhaps this is Larque's opportunity to explore her options. Acquiescing to Sky's demands that she change herself, Larque tries on a series of different personas--to the consternation of her mother, husband, and teenage sons--and finds her way to Popular Street. There, among the devil-may-care misfits, Larque can be Lark, a handsome young gay man, and quite possibly discover what her life is really about.   In her critically acclaimed contemporary fantasy, multiple award-winning author Nancy Springer breaks through boundaries while provocatively comingling the real and the surreal. Larque on the Wing is a marvel--a moving, funny, surprising, and transcendent tale of one woman's strange quest to come to terms with who she truly is.

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