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Bezig met laden... De familie Forrestdoor Emily Perkins
Bezig met laden...
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Emily Perkins' sumptuous new book, The Forrests, is a novel to savour slowly: line by line, character by character, revelation by revelation. Within a few pages I felt I was in the company of a contemporary Katherine Mansfield or Virginia Woolf.Why? It is to do with Perkins' attention to the sentence, to the slow mesmeric pace, to the minute details, to the sweet power of analogy and the dialogue that draws you in.....This is one of those rare and precious books that made me want to pick up my pen and write. It might sound like a dreary ambition – to attempt to capture the fullness of one rather ordinary life – but Emily Perkins's book ends up being extraordinary....It seems, in these pages, as if Perkins has a special gift for capturing a child's inner universe, but the talent extends itself as the novel progresses to the incandescent joys and devastations of teenage love, the compromises of mid-life and the tragedy of old age...Life is a fleetingly glorious thing, Perkins seems to say in this magnificent novel. Creative writing teachers will not accuse her novel of committing the sin of description: it's all show, no tell. Scenery is reduced to the locality of an episode: a playground or ski hut or bedroom in the immediate perception of a character. I think the story takes place mostly in Auckland, but the generic suburban setting could be anywhere people say "loo" and "nappies". History is entirely outside the frame;...Minute descriptions of family life drag down this novel Prijzen
Dorothy Forrest is immersed in the sensory world around her; she lives in the flickering moment. From the age of seven, when her odd, disenfranchised family moves from New York City to the wide skies of Auckland, to the very end of her life, this is her great gift and possible misfortune. Through the wilderness of a commune, to falling in love, to early marriage and motherhood, from the glorious anguish of parenting to the loss of everything worked for and the unexpected return of love, Dorothy is swept along by time. Her family looms and recedes; revelations come to light; death changes everything, but somehow life remains as potent as it ever was, and the joy in just being won't let her go. In a narrative that shifts and moves, growing as wild as the characters, The Forrests is an extraordinary literary achievement. A novel that sings with colour and memory, it speaks of family and time, dysfunction, ageing and loneliness, about heat, youth, and how life can change if 'you're lucky enough to be around for it'. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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