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Bezig met laden... Light (2006)door Margaret Elphinstone
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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. http://tamaranth.blogspot.com/2010/06/201050-light-margaret-elphinstone.html ( ) This book takes place when Robert Stevenson (of the famous "Lighthouse Stevensons") was upgrading lighthouses and bringing them under central control. Two of his employees are sent to a tiny island, to survey it and make plans for the new lighthouse. But there is already a lighthouse on the island - and a family that goes with it - both of which are threatened by their arrival. The book focuses on the developing relationship between the the two men (the senior, a cerebral reserved man, and his assistant, who has a better understanding of the impact of their visit) and the motley family who manage the lighthouse - the sister of the former lighthousekeeper, his widow, and their three children. The story really comes alive in the sections where the two surveyors are winning over the initially hostile children - but elsewhere, the book is a little pedestrian: it's carefully put together, from the background given to the characters, to the use of the theme of evolution (the senior surveyor is an amateur of science, and is booked onto the upcoming voyage of the Beagle) to make us wonder whether the lighthouse family are obsolete or whether they are capable of evolving to deal with changing events - but somehow it fails to take wing. I've written up Light by Margaret Elphinstone on Book Buzz. We're reading the book in July. http://bookbuzz.torontopubliclibrary.ca geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Elphinstone is a worthy successor to writers like Linklater and Mackay Brown, developing themes in the new century with a voice which is distinctly her own.' Herald Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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