Klik op een omslag om naar Google Boeken te gaan.
Bezig met laden... The Georges' Wife (1993)door Elizabeth Jolley
Geen Bezig met laden...
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 the last book in the Vera Wright trilogy. Vera has had a second daughter, Rachel, and this time the father is Mr. George, a professor. Once again, Vera has to keep the identity of the baby's father a secret because their relationship is clandestine. Although, it is not with a married man this time. Vera has gotten herself romantically entangled with someone she is keeping house for. His spinster sister would not approve of their relationship (although there are times when Vera is convinced the sister already knows). As with the other Vera Wright books, Miss Wright is lonely and alone. Sad line: "To be his and not just on the edge of him and not just now and then" (p 418) suggests that she would like to have an open and honest relationship with Rachel's father. She goes on to say, "I am accustomed to the idea of being alone, but her words cause an extra emptiness, that of being removed from belonging to a family" (p 426). How sad is that? As with the other Wright books in the series, The Georges' Wife jumps around. In one chapter Vera's children are small enough to show off to Miss Georges's guests and the next they have grown up to both become surgeons. Spoiler alert: all Vera' life she has been an outsider and incredibly lonely. Even at the very end of the trilogy she has not found true companionship. Mr. George, suffering from Alzheimer's, doesn't recognize the word 'couple' to describe his relationship with Vera. ( )
The first two novels of this trilogy by the late Australian writer Jolley were issued in the U.S. in the 1980s, but the third was not available until now. Largely autobiographical, the novels provide a haunting portrait of a woman who came of age during WWII in England, forging her identity in courageous circumstances. My Father’s Moon traces Vera’s childhood, her experiences as a nurse in wartime London and her seduction and pregnancy by a womanizing physician. In Cabin Fever, Vera, poor and desperate, is exploited as a teacher at a dreadful boarding school. The Georges, the title characters in the third novel, are an elderly brother and sister in Glasgow who take in Vera as a maid. Vera has another daughter out of wedlock with Mr. George, with whom she moves to Australia in the 1950s. The books do not accrue to a conventional narrative, however. These facts, teased out from the repetition of seminal memories, like the shards of a kaleidoscope, are merely the bones of a lyrically written, imaginatively observed and emotionally compelling work. Onderdeel van de reeks(en)The Vera Wright Trilogy (Book 3)
Vera and Mr. George have made a new life together but Vera's thoughts return again and again to loves and lovers, meetings and partings - the voices that echo in the mind like music. In The Georges' WifeElizabeth Jolley returns to the themes of discord and harmony between brothers and sister, husbands and wives, friends and lovers. Her spare and sensitive prose is illuminated with compassion and understanding for the intricacies of human relationships. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
Actuele discussiesGeenPopulaire omslagen
Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)823Literature English & Old English literatures English fictionLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
Ben jij dit?Word een LibraryThing Auteur. |