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Bezig met laden... The Beach Girlsdoor John D. MacDonald
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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. My favorite of John D. MacDonald non-Travis McGee books. The novel is set in a comfortable backwater marina beginning to be targeted by urban developers. The marina provides the usual neighborhood of beloved and good friends, tolerated neighbors, working girls, charter fishermen, newcomers, characters, hangers-on and visitors passing through with only living on and next to the water as the unifying factor. MacDonald tells his story of these characters encountering and interacting in the late summer in the first person voices of his main characters. The narratives progress and reveal more and more detail about the characters, setting, conflicts. The narratives are interesting, teasing and revealing as the main narrating characters set the background, conflicts, hopes and desires as only the intimate and knowledgeable voices of old members of a community can. The story unfolds like an old friend catching the reader up on what happened this summer while they were gone on vacation over a beer in a shady seaside bar. As personal crises, long-anticipated plots of revenge, on-going lives, lust, love, sex, and human foibles come to a boil under hot Florida sun, desires, needs and justices are satisfied and resolved by the characters and passers-though at the season's end party . . . and the resolutions are unexpected. I saw someone listed this as A Travis McGee novel. It is not!, although this marina is a forerunner in MacDonald's imagination as the setting for Slip F-18 at Bahia Mar Marina, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. This is one of MacDonald's books where he lets several of the characters have their own chapters told in the first person, before finishing up with three third-person chapters. Since he is omniscient about people's motivations, their foibles, and their innermost natures, he is able to do this.... Of course, I'm being cynical here, but MacDonald is about the most confident writer I have ever seen at stepping into different personalities - even if his view of the relationship between men and women would have been perfectly suitable if he were writing about Neanderthals. You can't help but be carried along. This one has brawls, some pretty effective low comedy, a touching love story (he even brought tears to my eyes at one point!), an effective climax, and ties things up for us at the end in a nice gift box. And all of this in 157 pages. Too bad he isn't around to teach writing to our contemporary writers, who are doing their utmost to kill the art of reading, by not even getting their story started good until page 157! geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
"The Beach Girls, " one of many classic novels from crime writer John D. MacDonald, the beloved author of "Cape Fear "and the Travis McGee series, is now available as an eBook. Sure, Leo Rice seems like a nice enough guy . . . but why does he have to choose "their" beach? He could head ten miles up the Florida strip and everyone could just live happily ever after--no questions asked. But Leo Rice "does" ask questions . . . and suddenly Stebbins' Marina, an oasis of easy living, hard drinking, and free love for its residents, is in jeopardy. And in less than a month, their paradise will be interrupted by twisted emotions, buried hatreds--and brutal murder. Features a new Introduction by Dean Koontz Praise for John D. MacDonald ""The "great entertainer of our age, and a mesmerizing storyteller."--Stephen King "My favorite novelist of all time."--Dean Koontz "To diggers a thousand years from now, the works of John D. MacDonald would be a treasure on the order of the tomb of Tutankhamen."--Kurt Vonnegut "A master storyteller, a masterful suspense writer . . . John D. MacDonald is a shining example for all of us in the field. Talk about "the""best.""--Mary Higgins Clark Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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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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One character is searching for the man who destroyed his wife. Another is searching for love but too shy to be aggressive enough to win the lady he is attracted to. To another man, women are only to be pursued, used and then discarded.
Eventually someone is murdered which makes many of the people in the narrative make decisions about their futures. The location of the story is a Florida marina which is run down and being sought by developers. ( )