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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Blind Contessa's New Machine: A Novel (originale 2010; edizione 2010)di Carey Wallace
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This short novel, just over two hundred pages, chronicles the life of a young Italian woman who is slowly suffering the loss of sight. The story opens with Carolina Fantoni confessing to her mother, father, and fiance that she is going blind. Oddly enough, none of them believe her, choosing to think that she is using a figure of speech to describe her feelings about her upcoming wedding, or casting it off as a joke. Only her friend, neighbor, and local scandalous inventor Turri believes her. The story then flashes backwards to Turri and Carolina’s first meeting at a ball, when he was sixteen and hiding from girls, and she was six and tired of dancing. As Carolina grows up, her parents are wary of her friendship with Turri, who because of his general undesirability as a husband is married off to the already-scandal laden daughter of a wealthy family. Carolina herself manages to attract and marry one of the most popular and beloved young men of the town, Pietro. Not longer after her marriage, the disease begins to progress rapidly, and Carolina becomes completely blind. The writing in this book is very pretty, with a quaint, old-fashioned tint. The reader has Carolina’s perspective, so things are described according to smell and feel, tactile descriptions instead of visual ones. I found the book to be a pleasant, quick read, but did not find the characters to be particularly engaging. I felt strangely indifferent to Carolina as a protagonist, nor did I feel that the relationships she had with other characters to be very authentic. So although the writing style and description are very well done, the characters and plot are not necessarily emotionally engaging. Liked the sensory descriptions, third-person-limited narrator, and setting/period. Didn't like the beyond-mediocre ending, awkward novella length, and unconvincing romance (I liked the hot, popular guy!). Take this idea, make it a Devil-in-the-White-City-style non-fiction work, and I'd be all over it. The Blind Contessa’s New Machine – Carey Wallace 4 stars How does a blind princess protect her secret heart? This is a fairy tale of a lovely young contessa, her tragic loss of sight, and her experience of love and passion. Based very loosely the invention of a very early typewriter, this story is a little gem. Short enough to read in one sitting, I returned from this book feeling as if I’d spent an afternoon basking in the sun of an Italian villa. Given that the book deals mainly with the Contessa’s loss of vision there is a surprising sense of a great scenic film in the descriptions. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Unable to convince her family and desirable fianc ?that she is going blind, early nineteenth-century Italian contessa Carolina Fantoni turns to her dreams and an eccentric local inventor when she loses her sight, inspiring the inventor's development of the first typewriter. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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I think this is a beautiful story, and feels timeless in its telling.
I hope that the author is considering writing more books. ( )