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Bezig met laden... Seventh Heaven (1990)door Alice Hoffman
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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. This one left me with a good feeling, though I can't recall anything about it. ( ) Somehow I have never read any Alice Hoffman. I found this one at the pool, and it was pretty good. She captures the feeling and longings of inhabitants of a brand new suburb on Long Island. The novel takes place at a crucial time, when women were just starting to feel itchy in their traditional roles. We just watched Outsiders again, and there were elements of the class stryggles in this novel as well. Apparently typical to Hoffman, there were also elements of "magic" as well. You must suspend cynicism and go with the flow! I bought Seventh Heaven on a whim, after searching high and low for a book that came out 25 years ago, required by my 2015 reading challenge. I looked in the New York Times book review archives. I checked Goodreads best-of lists. I asked family and friends if they knew of anything that had been published in 1990 that was good. In the end, I picked a book at random off a list, bought a used copy online, and absolutely devoured it. I was entranced by this book from the first page. For one, I absolutely love the writing style. It's mystical, realistic but not, and flows so beautifully. It reminded me of a Tim Burton film. Another reason I really loved this book, though, was Nora. Nora, the only divorced woman on her block, or maybe in her whole town, who just wants a friend. Nora, who doesn't understand why nobody will befriend her son, or why the other mothers don't want to have lunch, or why her American Dream of a cute house in the suburbs just isn't working out the way she wanted it to. In fact, I really loved almost all of the characters in this book. Sure, some of them are terrible people. But they all have entrancing stories to tell. All of their stories are interconnected. All of their stories are important. Nora has such an impact on all of them. I may have picked this book up on a whim, but I will definitely seek out more of Hoffman's books. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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HTML:A New York Times bestseller about a 1950s suburb transformed by the arrival of a divorced mother: "part American Graffiti, part early Updike" (The New York Times). On Hemlock Street, the houses are identical, the lawns tidy, and the families traditional. A perfect slice of suburbia, this Long Island community shows no signs of change as the 1950s draw to a closeâ??until the fateful August morning when Nora Silk arrives. Recently divorced, Nora mows the lawn in slingback pumps and climbs her roof in the middle of the night to clean the gutters. She works three jobs, and when her casseroles don't turn out, she feeds her two boysâ??eight-year-old Billy and his baby brother, Jamesâ??Frosted Flakes for supper. She wears black stretch pants instead of Bermuda shorts, owns twenty-three shades of nail polish, and sings along to Elvis like a schoolgirl. Though Nora is eager to fit in on Hemlock Street, her effect on the neighbors is anything but normal. The wives distrust her, the husbands desire her, and the children think she's a witch. But through Nora's eyes, the neighborhood appears far from perfect. Behind every neatly trimmed hedge and freshly painted shutter is a family struggling to solve its own unique mysteries. Inspired by Nora, the residents of Hemlock Street finally unlock the secrets that will transform their lives forever. A tale of extraordinary discoveries, Seventh Heaven is an ode to a single mother's heroic journey and a celebration of the courage it takes t Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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