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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. No fancy genre-busting writing, but a good straightforward literary family disintegration story. She has a light touch, which kept it from degenerating into some horrorshow of dysfunctional melodrama—at times it seems almost dispassionate. I never got all that involved with the characters, as interesting as they and their stories were. I hear a whooole lot of therapy under the surface... I'm sure the only way to have survived growing up like that was to learn how to keep it all a bit at arm's length. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Howard Garis, creator of the famed Uncle Wiggily series, along with his wife, Lilian, were phenomenally productive writers of popular children's series--includingThe Bobbsey TwinsandTom Swift--from the turn of the century to the 1950s. In a large, romantic house in Amherst, Massachusetts, Leslie Garis, her two brothers, and their parents and grandparents aimed to live a life that mirrored the idyllic world the elder Garises created nonstop. But inside The Dell--where Robert Frost often sat in conversation over sherry, and stories appeared to spring from the very air--all was not right. Roger Garis's inability to match his parents' success in his own work as playwright, novelist, and magazine writer led to his conviction that he was a failure as father, husband, and son, and eventually deepened into mental illness characterized by raging mood swings, drug abuse, and bouts of debilitating and destructive depression.House of Happy Endingsis Leslie Garis's mesmerizing, tender, and harrowing account of coming of age in a wildly imaginative, loving, but fatally wounded family. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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