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Bezig met laden... Plum & Jaggersdoor Susan Richards Shreve
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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. Sam McWilliams, oldest of his siblings, is the only one who remembers the June 11 in the 1960's when a terrorist explosion on a train in Italy killed his parents as they went to the lunch car. Sam is obsessively driven to protect his orphaned siblings, and discovers that he has a gift for quirky humor, eventually writing a darkly-humored family comedy for himself and his brother and sisters called "Plum & Jaggers", taken from his dead parents' love letters. They eventually land a TV series and success, but this fame comes with new pressures and threats that endanger Sam's sanity, eventually resolved by a sweet reunion in Italy with the familt that briefly took them in 25 years ago following the tragedy. A wry and often darkly charming story of an orphaned family who have learned to protect each other in an often senseless world. One quibble is that the identity of the stalker and his motives are never clearly shown, but by the end, this threat has lost much of its menace in the face of the McWilliams' newly regained solidity. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
For the McWilliams children, life is forever altered the day a terrorist bomb blast rips through the train carrying them across Italy, instantly killing their parents. Dazed and frightened, Charlotte, Oliver, and baby Julia cling to oldest brother Sam, who--only seven at the time--is haunted by every detail. After he and his siblings are taken in by their kindly but peculiar grandparents, Sam becomes consumed with protecting them at all costs. His compulsive behavior--which includes shoplifting materials to make a bomb shelter for the quartet--leads to his placement in "the Cage," a juvenile detention center on the outskirts of Washington, DC. It is there that Sam, inspired by letters exchanged between his deceased parents, dreams up Plum & Jaggers, a darkly bizarre comedy troupe. Made up of him and his brother and sisters, the group pokes fun at life's tragedies and will eventually carry them into adulthood. But even once grown, Sam McWilliams finds he cannot always stop things from blowing apart. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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The imagery was actually quite haunting - An American ex-pat family are traveling through Italy. The parents of 4 small children just happen to be in the lunch car of the train when a random terrorist bomb explodes there leaving the children orphans. This is the story of what happens to those children as they grow up under the ever watchful eye of the oldest brother Sam who was seven at the time and the only one with permanent memories of their parents and the accident. It is a great premise, but then the book takes an odd turn. The children grow to adults and actors in a comedy series loosely based on their absent parents. Their adult lives seemed a bit surreal and much of the poignancy was lost for me.
Overall, this was an interesting, fairly well-written read. There was much about it that I liked and certain haunting contextual details that were well done. I wish the novel had went in different directions; it had much more potential in my humble opinion. The books in this series so far have been good, light reads (and the price [free] is right) through Amazon Prime! ( )