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Set in a two month period during the late 1920s, A Compass Error suggests that at some key juncture the book's main character, Flavia, made a mistake that somehow blew her life off course, perhaps into a new sexual orientation.
This novel tells the story of two generations of women of an American-Italian family during the first decades of the nineteenth century in Italy and England. One is embittered by her adulterous Italian husband and leaves Italy for England, taking her daughter with her. The daughter grows into a woman who is more like her father in her relationships which brings along complications both in her love life and in her relationship with her mother, the favourite of the gods.
This was a fine novel about the things people demand from their loved ones, while not always acting accordingly themselves. About things withheld from children, letting them grow up with false images of their parents. It’s also about rich Americans living as expats in Europe, which gave me Henry James vibes. But ultimately it deals with making the right choices when staying with or leaving a partner at the right moment.
I would have liked to see the daughter a bit more fleshed out and rooted in life at the end. But who knows, we will see more of that in the follow up novel A Compass Error, the follow up to this one.
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
1st GENT. Our deeds are fetters that we forge ourselves. 2nd GENT. Ay, truly, but I think it is the world That brings the iron. Middlemarch Chapter IV
Le passé est une partie de nous-meme, la plus essentielle peut-etre. Victor Hugo
'You are young, sir,' he said, 'you are young; you are very very young sir.' David Copperfield
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Eerste woorden
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
A Favourite of the Gods introduced Flavia, daughter of Constanza, 'the favourite': granddaughter of Anna, the Principessa. (Introduction)
The relevant questions, as it happened, came by chance. (Prologues)
The clarity of the these mornings of spring and early summer, the second year at St.-Jean, the sense of peace, slow time, the long day to come, the summer, the year; the years.
Citaten
Laatste woorden
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Ignorant, as we are all of us, in youth, in health, untired, taking possession of the world, ignorant of its workings and that of our own natures; ignorant, arrogant, generous, self-enclosed, yet visited, however briefly, by a flash of intellectual passion. (Introduction)
Set in a two month period during the late 1920s, A Compass Error suggests that at some key juncture the book's main character, Flavia, made a mistake that somehow blew her life off course, perhaps into a new sexual orientation.
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This was a fine novel about the things people demand from their loved ones, while not always acting accordingly themselves. About things withheld from children, letting them grow up with false images of their parents. It’s also about rich Americans living as expats in Europe, which gave me Henry James vibes. But ultimately it deals with making the right choices when staying with or leaving a partner at the right moment.
I would have liked to see the daughter a bit more fleshed out and rooted in life at the end. But who knows, we will see more of that in the follow up novel A Compass Error, the follow up to this one.