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Bezig met laden... The Chrome Suitedoor Sandra Birdsell
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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. Hard to talk about. Hard to read; it took me a couple of months of off-and-on again reading to get through it. Clearly well-written, prose-wise. (Even if her dwelling on awkward unpleasant details, like Amy's disgusting eating habits or her plastic teeth, rather turned me off.) But the different events didn't seem to fit together into anything like a plot. I couldn't understand why she'd chosen to discuss the particular situations from her character's life that she did. I still feel that I must have been missing something, some resonance that would have made all the disparate happenings fit together. What was the point? geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Set in Manitoba, Sandra Birdsell's spellbinding novel""reaches back nearly four decades into the life of scriptwriter Amy Barber. In a journey shadowed by the future and the past, Amy travels by car from Toronto to Winnipeg with her younger lover, and reconstructs the events that brought her to where she is today. As the narrative moves from a small town during one extraordinarily hot summer at the close of the fifties when a death changes everything, to the sixties and seventies when Amy marries, goes to live in the city, and begins to have reason to fear for her young son's well-being, Sandra Birdsell uncovers the inadvertent damage that can be done within the most well-meaning of families. Vivid, darkly humorous, erotic, "The Chrome Suite" is an emotionally charged story of darkness and light that evokes the sometimes dangerous territory of the past. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Amy is a complex character, growing from a lovable child to a young adult that is less likable. She struggles in most of her relationships and her story contains both unique elements and certain universal truths. This is a very real and moving portrait of coming of age in the 1960s. ( )