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Bezig met laden... The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Streetdoor Susan Jane Gilman
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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. I was kind of disappointed with this book. It didn't really keep my attention. I didn't connect with the main character at all. I honestly pushed myself to finish it. I might give this author another try in the future. ( ) I really liked the main character thru most of the book until the last quarter. She was amazing in her ability to find ways to survive her childhood, her ways of not letting her disability stop her or make others assist her, her care and love for her husband, and her strength in running the company. Loved the descriptions of starting and running an ice cream empire along with surviving the depression. Initially I understood Lilly's desire to be better than her former family's company and wanting to prove it. After she became rich, I could not agree with her ways. Actually felt sorry for her when she met up with her Dad.
This entertaining novel underscores how the whole debate about whether female novelists and their female characters face a greater burden to be “likable,” sparked by the novels and thoughts of Claire Messud, Meg Wolitzer and others last year, is beside the point. Lillian Dunkle is sometimes sympathetic, sometimes reprehensible, but always fascinating. And that, darlings, is all that matters in telling a good story. PrijzenOnderscheidingen
Lillian's rise to fame and fortune spans seventy years and is inextricably linked to the course of American history itself, from Prohibition to the disco days of Studio 54. Yet Lillian Dunkle is nothing like the whimsical motherly persona she crafts for herself in the media. Conniving, profane, and irreverent, she is a supremely complex woman who prefers a good stiff drink to an ice cream cone. And when her past begins to catch up with her, everything she has spent her life building is at stake. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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