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Bezig met laden... Restlessnessdoor Aritha Van Herk
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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.  biblioclair | Jun 20, 2023 |   In Aritha Van Herk’s Restlessness, we meet Dorcas, a professional traveller (she works as a courier), a woman who has been everywhere in the world, a woman who has no home. Sure, she makes her base in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, but she is not at home there – despite her love for the city, and for the Chinooks and the landmarks that define it. Exhausted by the constant movement, desperate for solace, the courier holes herself up in the Palliser Hotel and awaits a hired assassin to kill/love? her. Please see the rest of my post on my blog, The Door is Ajar, at http://shernor2.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/restlessness/! SherNor | Apr 12, 2012 |  )1  LynnB | Jul 9, 2007 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Desperate to find a home, a restless, wandering woman determines that the only way she can appease her terrible homesickness is to occupy the still center of death. Unable to commit suicide, she hires a professional killer and contracts him to murder her, by her choice and on her terms. Restlessness chronicles their meeting and its unexpected story and outcome. In an effort to dissuade the woman from death, her killer elicits from her stories about her travels. In this reversal of Sheherazade, who saves her life through a continuous story, Restlessness becomes a story about how to avoid story, a travel book about how to evade travel, a manual for how to stay put. Breathtaking in the tension of its incipient murder, this novel will not permit the reader to break the thread of watching and waiting that both death and travel conjure. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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However, the book enacts its own restlessness, and I found myself, at parts, impatient, yes restless, with the (lack of) plot. So I find the novel (if one can call it that) successful, but would rather Derrick be a fullness of his own, rather than a response-and-reply.