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Bezig met laden... The Floatplane Notebooks (1988)door Clyde Edgerton
Southern Fiction (92) 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 book spoke to my heart. It is about the Copeland family in Lister North Carolina in the late sixties and early seventies. The story is told from various viewpoints, including a wisteria vine that has been around for so long it can correct old family stories. The main characater is Meredith Copeland. His best friend is his fatherless cousin Mark. It's hard to describe why I loved this book so much. I think it reminded me of my own childhood--the silly things that are so funny, the stupid trouble kids get into-- and how someone's innate character doesn't change, how unfair the world can be, and how powerful love is. ( ) Interesting book - multi-generational told in a weaving pattern with subtleties that leave conclusions to the reader. Some conclusions I was confident about; others I wasn't and would have enjoyed discussing with other readers. Characters are intriguing yet realistic. The powerful ending sneaks up on you. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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"The Floatplane Notebooks explores the rich history and inner workings of the Copeland family, as its various members struggle with both everyday concerns and catastrophes from 1956 to 1971. Told through alternating speakers, the novel follows the family's youngest generation, a wildly diverse group, as they navigate through childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood. There are escapades and challenges, jealousies and heartbreak, rollicking humor and haunting tragedy, and as the novel progresses we are drawn more and more into the characters' efforts to achieve fulfillment and reconciliation, with themselves and with their loved ones. The family patriarch, Albert Copeland, who for years has been lovingly tinkering with a floatplane that he has built from an incomplete kit, perhaps best represents the family's often misguided but endearing eccentricities; and the floatplane itself, pieced together and precariously wobbly, suggests the instability of the family itself, tested time and again by disruptions and threats from within and without"-- 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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