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Bezig met laden... Angel of Light (1981)door Joyce Carol Oates
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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. another fabulous book from Joyce Carol Oates, one of my favorite authors of all time. History, family drama, love and betrayal are hallmarks of an Oates novel. Two disturbed young people seek justice for their father's death. The father was a high official in the US government who was accused of wrongdoing and subsequently committed suicide. His children, Kirsten and Owen, are convinced that he was framed and that his death was not suicide. They enter into a blood pact to avenge his death. Convinced that somehow their mother and her supposed lover, Nick Martens( the father's closest friend and second in command) are responsible leads them to investigate their parent's friends and colleagues, all leading lights of Washington high society.
'Angel of Light,'' is a political novel, though one less interested in the practice of politics itself than in its power to evoke certain deep human impulses toward violence. The story is very generally based on the fall of the House of Atreus; once again a brother and sister seek to avenge the killing of their father by murdering their mother and her lover. But here the myth is updated, and altered, by the terms in which power is now exercised in America - the shadowy intersections of government, business, finance, ideology and organized crime.... I'm much impressed by Miss Oates's ability to enter and explore the personal sources of the high-minded violence that's now such a familiar fact of public life. I'm impressed too by how clearly she remembers that her first duty is not to judge but to understand. Erelijsten
Maurice Halleck, Director of the Commission for the Ministry of Justice, is accused of wrongdoing and then dies in a suspicious car accident. A suicide note and confession are found. But are they legitimate, or was he coerced into writing them before he was taken out to be killed? Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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A story of the American political scene is one of loyalty and betrayal, revenge and forgiveness. It's the old two-men-in- love-with-one-woman tale but this time with a twist: save a life and share a love. When Maurice Halleck dies in disgrace his children vow to kill his betrayers -- their mother and her lover. It's a thriller that takes a good, hard look at the alienation of youth.