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Bezig met laden... Raven Stole the Moondoor Garth Stein
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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. Cuando Jenna Rosen abandona su cómoda vida en Seattle para visitar Wrangell, Alaska, supone una desgarradora vuelta al pasado. Hogar hace mucho tiempo de su abuela nativa americana, Wrangell se halla cerca del complejo turístico Thunder Bay, donde el joven hijo de Jenna, Bobby, desapareció hace dos años. Nunca se encontró su cuerpo, y ella está decidida a enterrar el doloroso misterio de su muerte. Pero necesita respuestas y armada sólo con los feroces instintos de protección de una madre, la búsqueda de Jenna de la verdad sobre su hijo –y la fuerza de su fe– está a punto de arrastrarla a un aterrador y trascendental abismo… Intriguing. Jenna, two years after her son's drowning, returns to Alaska not sure what she's seeking. She returns to her grandmother's house & interacts with the Tlingit, sifting through the beliefs of her ancestors, including the kushtaka - the shape shifting otter. I particularly liked the belief that nothing is good vs evil...it just is Garth Stein published Raven Stole the Moon more than a decade before The Art of Racing in the Rain became a New York Times Bestseller. The jacket summary intrigued me: a Seattle woman grieving the loss of her five-year-old son returns to her ancestral hometown in Alaska where she is confronted by Tlingit spirits. I wanted to enjoy Raven Stole the Moon more than I did. I found that I could not relate to main character Jenna as much as I related to the dog narrator of The Art of Racing in the Rain. I suspect this is due to a combination of Stein’s inexperience as novelist at the time and the fact that he’s a man. Sometimes male writers have trouble realistically creating female characters (and vice versa, I’m sure.) In some ways, the plot was predictable and both Jenna and her husband’s choices irritated me. The supernatural aspects to the story didn’t quite work for me either. This is an early book of Stein's (1998) that was re released after the phenomenal success of The Art of Racing in the Rain (2008). I loved racing, but this book is disjointed, unfocused, and just awful. It started out okay, but quickly got murky. This attests how ten years makes a big difference in a writer's skill. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Jenna Rosen returns to a remote Alaskan town to discover that her son's death is shrouded in legend. Armed with only her maternal instincts Jenna's quest for the truth is about to lead her into a terrifying and life-changing abyss. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
Auteur ChatGarth Stein heeft van May 17, 2010 tot May 28, 2010 gechat met LibraryThing leden. Lees de chat. Actuele discussiesGeenPopulaire omslagen
Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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