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Bezig met laden... Where White Horses Gallop (2007)door Beatrice MacNeil
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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. I devoured this book in a day!! I normally don't have a lot of time for reading, but once I started this book, the rest of the world went away --- I could not put it down. Another fabulous story from a Cape Bretoner. Love it! ( ) Where White Horses Gallop by Beatrice MacNeil is a book I highly recommend. Beatrice MacNeil is a Nova Scotian writer, and this book gives unique and very touching look into WW11. It's beautifully written and takes place mainly in a small town in Cape Breton just before and during and after WW11. Three young men, all friends, join up to go abroad fight WW11. What makes this book so special is that it focusses on the family dynamics and struggles of the parents of the young men as they chose to go abroad and how each family responds to their son's going to war, returning from WW11 - if they do. I found it to be very realistic . There are some stories from the war front, but mainly the book focuses on the parents of the young men, and the young men themselves. PTSD and other effects of war are dealt with in this book. It's a very different look at war and I think a realistic one. There are no heroes - just people struggling to cope. It's very different from many other books that take a look at Canada's role in WW11 in that it does not focus on the war front, nor the girlfriends or wives left behind -but rather the young men and their familes. I found it truly heart breaking and touching and came away feeling much sorrow. It's a beautiful book and one I highly reccomend. 5 stars. Beautifully written, Where White Horses Gallop is set in Cape Breton, NS. Three young men, all friends, enlist in Canada's military and set sail for Europe in 1941. MacNeil tells their story, and the story of their families. As Alistair MacLeod notes, "Beatrice MacNeil has a brilliant insight into the souls of the wounded." I was taken with MacNeil's prose from the first page of the prologue. "In spring, when the dandelions were young and saucy, the children had plucked them by the handfuls. Fed them to the brook just to watch them drown. Adults had snapped off their golden round heads and green leaves and spoken openly of the liquid pleasures brewing in their barns. Farmers had sliced away the weeds with a vengeance, leaving their slaughtered bodies to the wind for burial." (7) A must read!
In Where White Horses Gallop, MacNeil centers her story around four adolescent boys – Alex the poet, Benny the fiddle player, Calum who wants to be a doctor, and Hector who always has a joke ready. These characters live in the 1930s-40’s and three of them go off to war... Throughout Where White Horses Gallop, MacNeil writes in a poetic, tightly woven narrative that makes you care about the characters. Her book bristles with Cape Breton pride. The tradition of storytelling in Canada finds its deepest roots along the country’s East Coast. And it is here, upon the rugged coastline of Cape Breton, that Beatrice MacNeil sets the stage for her latest novel, Where White Horses Gallop, a stirring account of human frailty and courage....The storyline is lean and layered with nostalgia; the writing is fluid and flows with seemingly effortless humility. Characters reveal themselves slowly, coming into focus like buoys bobbing in the Atlantic fog. Though occasionally MacNeil resorts to a kind of clichéd stoicism ... Prijzen
FROM AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR BEATRICE MACNEIL COMES THE ACCLAIMED STORY OF THOSE WHO WERE SENT INTO BATTLE-- AND THOSE WHO WERE LEFT AT HOME. In 1941, three young men enlist in the legendary Cape Breton Highlanders and sail off to war, leaving their families to wait and wonder at home in Beinn Barra, Nova Scotia. Fisherman Hector MacDonald, gifted musician Benny Doucet, and hopeful medical student Calum MacPherson are all eager for the excitement of life in the famous regiment, but on the homefront, they leave behind only the anxiety and pain of their loved ones. Heart-wrenchingly told in smart, lyrical, evocative prose, Where White Horses Gallop is a novel that strikes at the heart of war in its glory, and in all its stark legacy. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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