Barney Norris
Auteur van Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain
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Algemene kennis
- Geboortedatum
- 1987
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- England, UK
- Land (voor op de kaart)
- UK
- Geboorteplaats
- Sussex, England, UK
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Statistieken
- Werken
- 16
- Leden
- 186
- Populariteit
- #116,758
- Waardering
- 3.8
- Besprekingen
- 13
- ISBNs
- 48
- Talen
- 2
This is a book written in five voices, each one involved to a greater or lesser degree with a thoroughly nasty car crash in the town. There's the self-deluded and foul-mouthed flower seller; the soon to be bereaved schoolboy who's an odd mixture of articulate beyond his years and immature; the widower, mourning both the death of his wife, and the end a long and happy marriage; the lonely army wife, desperately seeking some purpose in this, the latest of her husband's postings (he's now been sent on to Afghanistan); and the highly over-qualified young security guard.
These unrelated lives come to to intermesh - some with one character, some with another. Though coincidental, these are believable encounters. The characters themselves are believable. They are flawed, but Norris treats them with compassion and humanity.
The only quibble I have is with the writing that's not come from the mouths of the five characters. This is sometimes so complex as to confuse meaning - I had sometimes to take another run at it.
Overall however, this is a satisfying, humane, perceptive read about ordinary people, ordinary lives, often poetic in the way it examines the reality of our everyday existence.… (meer)