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Bezig met laden... Bellevue Square (2017)door Michael Redhill
  
Giller Prize Winners (15) Books Read in 2019 (1,246) 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.   BooksInMirror | Feb 19, 2024 |  Ugh! This book! I really disliked it throughout and then HATED the ending. I understand the appeal of it for an awards committee with the unreliable narrator and it's constant exploration of sanity (Bellevue isn't in the title for nothing). It leaves one constantly questioning what is or isn't real, but for this reader it was an uncomfortable and occasionally infuriating reading experience. It feels mostly like an exercise in Michael Redhill feeling very smug about what a clever novel he wrote and how many questions it leaves its readers with. I'm not biting. Decidedly not my jam but I can see other readers eating it up so don't let my violent dislike (entirely) dissuade you (  ) MickyFine | Jul 6, 2022 |  ) Smits | Dec 2, 2020 |  ) Georgina_Watson | Jun 14, 2020 | ) icolford | Mar 24, 2020 |
 The novel also conveys a formidable understanding of the role of doppelgangers throughout literature and myth and the sundry psychological malaises that might summon up such visions of solipsistic doom. But once we pass through the seismic shift at the novel's exact midpoint, even those comfortable with bafflement and wild flights of subjectivity might find themselves feeling excluded from Redhill's intricate design, a sort of latticework of unreliable memories shrouding a variety of unreliable views of reality. In its taut span of 262 pages, Bellevue Square features several narrative and tonal hairpin turns. With each of these, our admiration for Redhill's storytelling dexterity burgeons, while our investment in Jean's story itself diminishes. Still, I'd rather be lost in Redhill's ghost story than grounded in your average slab of tasteful literary realism. Indeed, the opening chapters of this new opus, Bellevue Square, stick closely to the grip-lit script: simple, compelling prose, sudden plot twists, looming violence and a female narrator who swiftly proves unreliable. But as the reader becomes more and more absorbed in the story, the book quietly becomes something else. Something mystifying and haunting and entirely its own. ...This is a bewildering book. And, strangely, that is part of its draw. Reading Bellevue Square is as captivating as it is unsettlingAll told, this modern ghost story — the first of a planned triptych — will not soon be forgotten  With Bellevue Square, the first panel of a projected triptych titled Modern Ghosts, Michael Redhill puts his protagonist, Jean Mason, through wringer after wringer. As witnesses and vicarious participants, readers can appreciate Jean’s otherworldly predicaments, though they might experience greater bafflement than she does....A willing – if somewhat mystified – reader might at this point wonder if Redhill is heading toward a wild black comedy in the Blue Velvet vein, in which a well-mannered, snowy white individual gets doused with a rainbow of motley urban archetypes. Evidently, he’s not....Still, the core matter of “doppelgangerness” feels overwrought and hallucinogenic without being astounding or intellectually stimulating. The more Jean is subsumed by the machinations of a plot that demands resolution, the less the novel engages. The story cites Goethe and de Maupassant as literary antecedents, and Bellevue Square aspires to embody an elevated ghost story. The subdued tale-within-a-tale of a woman lost in Toronto the Weird, however, would be captivating enough without the stylistic pyrotechnics. PrijzenErelijsten
Fiction.
Literature.
Suspense.
Thriller.
HTML:*Winner of the 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize* A darkly comic literary thriller about a woman who fears for her sanityâ??and then her lifeâ??when she learns that her doppelganger has appeared in a local park. Jean Mason has a doppelganger. She's never seen her, but others swear they have. Apparently, her identical twin hangs out in Kensington Market, where she sometimes buys churros and drags an empty shopping cart down the streets, like she's looking for something to put in it. Jean's a grown woman with a husband and two kids, as well as a thriving bookstore in downtown Toronto, and she doesn't rattle easilyâ??not like she used to. But after two customers insist they've seen her double, Jean decides to investigate. She begins at the crossroads of Kensington Market: a city park called Bellevue Square. Although she sees no one who looks like her, it only takes a few visits to the park for her to become obsessed with the possibility of encountering her twin in the flesh. With the aid of a small army of locals who hang around in the park, she expands her surveillance, making it known she'll pay for information or sightings. A peculiar collection of drug addicts, scam artists, philanthropists, philosophers and vagrantsâ??the regulars of Bellevue Squareâ??are eager to contribute to Jean's investigation. But when some of them start disappearing, she fears her alleged double has a sinister agenda. Unless Jean stops her, she and everyone she cares about will face a fate much stran Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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