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Bezig met laden... Many Mansions (1952)door Isabel Bolton
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A finalist for the National Book Award, Many Mansions was originally published in 1952 and received raves upon its debut. Now available for the first time in a paperback edition, the novel recounts an elderly woman's difficult decision to reread an unpublished memoir. Her poignant story of forbidden love and sacrifice, which begins during the Victorian era and concludes in the years following World War II, recalls the aristocratic elegance and psychological insights of works by Edith Wharton and Henry James. PRAISE FOR ISABEL BOLTON "She is not merely a clever woman writer who exploits the feminine sensibility vibrating on the edge of contemporary life. She is a poet of the nobler kind who uses the compression and the polish of her fiction to focus human insights and to concentrate moral passion." -- Edmund Wilson, The New Yorker "The best woman writer of fiction in this country today." -- Diana Trilling, The Nation "Bolton clearly learned from Virginia Woolf when it came to mingling serious and frivolous people and circumstances, then making each matter without pretending that they will transform one another permanently." -- Margo Jefferson, The New York Times 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: (3.5)
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It's the early 1950s and as 84-year old Margaret Sylvester looks out of her New York apartment, where she lives in genteel quasi-poverty, she reflects on her life, and on the memoir she once wrote. She recalls being raised in an aristocratic 19th century household...an affair, a child she was otr allowed to keep. And later moving on with her own life, immersing herself in social activism, the friendships and the changing backdrop of society as Victorian mores give way to the Bright Young Things, and later yet to the outbreak of WW2.
Against the changing world, she recalls her first love, and later people who surface in her life, from the troublesome lodger to a young man in straitened circumstances whom she has just befriended... And momentary impressions and recollections flit across her memory- flowers, the seasons, a beautiful party she hosted...
I found this slow to get into but it definitely grows on you as you get into the character. (