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Bezig met laden... The River, By Moonlightdoor Camille Marchetta
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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. THE RIVER, BY MOONLIGHT by Camille Marchetta is a literary jewel set in 1917 New York with characters so clear you could pick them out of a crowd. This story begins a little after six in the morning when Henrietta Canning gets a disturbing call from NYPD Detective Malone. A lady has drowned in the Hudson River and the police believe it’s her twenty-five year old daughter, Lily. Once the identity is confirmed, the next concern for her family is whether this was an accident or suicide. As the people she left behind come to terms with this loss, we get to know Lily and what it must have been like to walk in her shoes. It won’t be until the last few pages that we understand completely what happened that fatal night at the Yacht Club. Marchetta's book would make the perfect book club read! Note: A copy of this book will be raffled off at http://j-kaye-book-blog.blogspot.com/ geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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On a rainy April night in 1917, a passing vagrant sees a young woman fall (or is it jump?) into New York City's Hudson River. He tries to save her, but fails. The police tentatively identify the woman as Lily Canning, twenty-five years old, from Minuit, a town in the Hudson Valley. But is it Lily? The question torments her mother, Henrietta, as she awaits confirmation. And when it comes, even more anguishing questions arise, for neither accident nor suicide makes sense. Lily could swim like a fish, and with her looks, and wealth, and talent, with an exhibition of her paintings about to open at a prestigious New York gallery, she had everything to live for. In the days following her drowning, her heartbroken mother, her estranged husband, Edmund, her family, her friends, even the servant girl, Nuala, try to unravel Lily's secrets and to come to terms with the devastating consequences of her loss on their own lives. Set in New York City and the Hudson River Valley, when the country was poised on the brink of the First World War, "The River, By Moonlight" is a vivid evocation of time and place, and a poignant portrayal of what happens when individual actions and national events collide. Above all, it is a deeply moving study of grief and despair, of the resilience of human nature, and the triumph of determination and hope. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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What follows is the story of how family, friends, and community deal with the tragic loss of a talented young woman. Eight of Lily’s friends and loved ones each get to share with us their thoughts and feelings as they find out about and deal with her death.
I was sort of apprehensive about this book through the end of the first chapter. It started out a bit slow and I wasn’t sure what I should be expecting. By the time I got through the second chapter, though, I was intrigued. It worked very well for me to sit down and read a single chapter each time I sat down to read. In that way I savored the book and kept each individual’s memories of Lily from running together. By the end I was really very much enjoying this book and was extremely pleased to see Lily get to tell the story of the last day of her life herself in one of the very last chapters. ( )