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Bezig met laden... Burnt Mountain (editie 2011)door Anne Rivers Siddons (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkBurnt Mountain door Anne Rivers Siddons
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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. This is supposed to be a book portraying a strong southern woman, but the protagonist is neitrher strong nor believable. She also has no life of her own and just does what is expected of her and what she feels like. She is a nice person who experiences much abuse from her first husband who turns evil as the book progresses. I am glad she found someone to care for her, but their meeting after years apart is another incredible experience presented. Learning about the social structure of Atlanta was moderately interesting. The timing of many events presented was inaccurate, but that hardly mattered. ( ) I very much like the writing style of his author. It is descriptive and beautiful. This is a story of southern gentility and snobbishness. The story is told by the main character, Thayer, whose life is changed when her beloved father and grandfather are killed in a car accident. Thayer's mother is cold and very nasty. Thayer is the second daughter. Her grandmother comes to live with the family, and Thayer is able to have a different perspective from the one implanted by her mother. It is her grandmother that brings love and joy. The first daughter, more beautiful like her mother, whereas Thayer is criticized, Lilly is loved. When Thayer attends summer camp, she falls in love with a young man whose camp is across the lake. She becomes pregnant and it is the loving grandmother who shows extreme love. The baby is lost, leaving Thayer lost and confused. The story is filled with beautiful detail, until the end when it gets a bit weird, but still it is a lovely book worth the time spent reading.
Summer camps play a pivotal role in the life of a young Atlanta heiress. Onderscheidingen
Growing up, the only place tomboy Thayer Wentworth felt at home was at her summer camp - Camp Sherwood Forest in the North Carolina Mountains. It was there that she came alive and where she met Nick Abrams, her first love...and first heartbreak. Years later, Thayer marries Aengus, an Irish professor, and they move into her deceased grandmother's house in Atlanta, only miles from Camp Edgewood on Burnt Mountain where her father died years ago in a car accident. There, Aengus and Thayer lead quiet and happy lives until Aengus is invited up to the camp to tell old Irish tales to the campers. As Aengus spends less time at home and becomes more distant, Thayer must confront dark secrets-about her mother, her first love, and, most devastating of all, her husband. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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