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Bezig met laden... The Sorrow Properdoor Lindsey Drager
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Beautifully written. Lots of memorable phrases. ( ) I closed the book and said "Wow" or was it "Whew"? I gave it 5 stars. I can't say why I liked it so much because I can't talk about it. I need to hold it and savor it because if (or when) I re-read it, it will be a different book. Maybe I should buy the Kindle version. This is an amazing cover, especially when viewed on a black background. Appropriately, because it is partly about libraries, I read it as a Library book. A Schroedinger's cat of a book- I hesitate to even call it a novel because often a novel implies linear plot and this is not that. There are some librarians lamenting the loss of their building, meditating on a media space that provides computer time, not books. And there is a couple, one of whom is a photographer, who are sometimes here and sometimes not. For the adventurous, contemplative reader. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
"The Sorrow Proper is a novel-length investigation of the anxiety that accompanies change. A group of aging librarians must decide whether to fight or flee from the end of print and the rise of electronic publications, while the parents of the young girl who died in front of the library struggle with their role in her loss. Anchored by the transposed stories of a photographer and his deaf mathematician lover each mourning the other's death, The Sorrow Proper attempts to illustrate how humans of all relations--lovers, parents, colleagues--cope with and challenge social "progress," a mechanism that requires we ignore, and ultimately forget, the residual in order to make room for the new, to tell a story that resists "The End." This debut novel explores the hypothetical end of the public library system and a young theory in the hard sciences called Many Worlds, a branch of quantum mechanics that strives to prove mathematically that our lives do not follow a singular, linear path"--Provided by publishers. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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