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Bezig met laden... Martin Sloane (2001)door Michael Redhill
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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 a story about love and abandonment. Jolene is a 19-year-old college student when she meets and falls in love with Martin Sloane, an artist 30 years her senior. When he suddenly vanishes from her life, she has to learn to deal with this loss. Loss is the major theme -- both Jolene and Martin have experienced other important losses in their lives. The writing is beautiful and atmospheric. There are two story lines: Martin's and Jolene's. I found Martin's story very well done. Jolene's, on the other hand, was harder to believe. What she and her friend Molly do in Ireland seemed too contrived or melodramatic to be fully believable. However, the ending makes up for this...almost completely. Well worth reading.
''Martin Sloane'' exhibits a . . . unbounded intelligence. In the end, whatever I might tell you about what I think the novel means is irrelevant. Its truths reveal themselves slowly and according to what each reader brings to the story. It keeps changing, like something alive. About the novel, like the boxes and love, it matters less what you think than how it makes you feel. So I'll tell you that reading ''Martin Sloane'' made me feel melancholic, hopeful, amused, energized, enlightened, unnerved, touched and finally grateful that occasionally a writer comes along who gets real life just right.
In 1984, Jolene Iolas, a student in upstate New York, encounters Martin Sloane's work while visiting a Toronto gallery. She strikes up a correspondence with the older artist, and eventually they become lovers. And then, without warning, without a word, he vanishes. There is no hint of his fate, no chain of cause and effect to be followed. Over the following months, Jolene sheds her life, losing everything, including her oldest friend, Molly, to her grief. Ten years pass, and Jolene begins to live with Martin's disappearance. But then the opportunity to confront her ghost arises. Word comes from, of all people, Molly, that someone named Sloane has been exhibiting in Irish galleries. Jolene travels to Dublin, where she is reluctantly reunited with her old friend. Together, the two women become lost in a jumble of pasts as they try to piece together what happened to Martin Sloane. Seamlessly crafted and beautifully written, Martin Sloane evokes the mysteries of love and art, the weight of history, and what it means to bear memory for the missing and the dead. 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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Irish born artist, Martin Samuel Joseph Sloane is a conundrum. When he suddenly leaves his and Jolene's home in the middle of the night, Jolene is left with his little boxes and a million questions. What follows is a quest for love. The themes of loss and forgiveness are unmistakable but what bubbles to the surface in the end is maturation and grace. ( )