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Bezig met laden... Farewell, Summerdoor Helen Hooven Santmyer
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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. This is a different sort of coming-of-age story. Eleven-year-old Elizabeth Lane vicariously earns a bit of worldly wisdom through her sometimes surreptitious observance of her cousin as he falls in love with a girl from a wealthy family, whose father has already chosen a husband for her. Told from Elizabeth's viewpoint, it was her emotions and her lessons learned that I experienced. Santmyer is such a consummate craftsperson with her writing, and her life's work as an English professor is happily in evidence. Though certainly not the master work of her earlier published novel, . . . And Ladies of the Club, this short novel is a deceptively easy read. It seemed an hors d'ouevre, until two days after completing it, I realized I was still full with the experience of having read it. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
It's a long, languorous, country summer in a small Ohio town. After many years spent away as a scholar and writer, Elizabeth Lane has returned to the setting of her most poignant childhood memories, a town steeped in her family's long history. She comes to Sunbury to work on a book but finds she is haunted by one memory in particular. It was 1905, she was eleven and in love with her cousin, Steve, painfully watching his ill-fated romance with the beautiful Damaris. Looking back, Elizabeth discovers a world of feelings that she knows belong more to adulthood than to childhood, and as she sees the tragic, doomed love of Steve and Damaris, she wishes she could be a child forever.Peopled with superbly realized characters, steeped in the golden glow of an era fondly recalled, and marked by the prodigious talent displayed in ". . . And Ladies of the Club", Farewell, Summer is the moving tale of star-crossed love -- innocent and elusive -- and of a young girl's coming of age. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.52Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1900-1944LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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