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Bezig met laden... The Weather at Tregulla (1962)door Stella Gibbons
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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.  Porius | Oct 10, 2009 |   The plot is uneven and the ending is just....not quite right. Stella Gibbons, in my opinion, doesn't ever end her books in a satisfactory way. I’m not saying that I have to like the endings or agree with them….but, they seem almost like non-endings…like she just doesn’t know how to end so she sort of collapses everything or she tersely discusses the future deaths of her characters or forces a happy ending. This gives her books an unfinished feel sometimes. I enjoyed reading this book though. Even when I hate the endings, I still enjoy her books because her characters are always interesting. She’s also very good at descriptions of scenery, which I don’t typically enjoy. She must have traveled a good deal throughout her life. (  ) DameMuriel | Jan 31, 2008 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Onderdeel van de uitgeversreeks(en)Furrowed Middlebrow (61)
Terence danced, alas, only fairly well. She tried to hide the fact from herself. Una Broadbent, nineteen years old and desperate to leave the small Cornish town of Tregulla to try her luck on the London stage, finds her hopes dashed by her mother's sudden death and its financial implications. She broods about, working with her father on their small flower farm, but her boredom melts with the arrival of a womanizing artist, Terrence Willows, and his charming sister Emmeline (who spends her time 'footling about'). On hand to witness the resulting sparks are Una's childhood friend Barnabas, his brother Hugo, recovering from a car crash, their military father, who loathes tourists, and an array of other colourful locals. Soon, Terrence's dancing ability is the least of the facts Una is hiding from herself... First published in 1962 and out of print for decades, The Weather at Tregulla is a funny, touching tale of ill-advised young love against the glorious backdrop of the Cornish coast. This new edition features an introduction by twentieth-century women's historian Elizabeth Crawford. 'The characters are wonderfully well drawn, with a clear-eyed unsentimental sympathy of which Miss Gibbons has the secret' Sphere Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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 Google Books — Bezig met laden...GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)823.91Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: (3.94)
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One day she meets the Willowses and falls in love with the young painter of sand and stones. The thing is doomed from the start as the painter is a pillow soft element concerned only with his art. The artists sister has a few romantic moments with one of the voters of Tregulla. It comes to nothing much and the young woman dies after a brief illness that takes away the use of her limbs. Of the two our sympathy goes with the young woman. No contest.
The story ends with Una getting ready to leave for London and her beloved Stage. Her father has re-married. A woman of some wealth who makes it possible for the Beaumont's to follow their bliss. It's a little odd that Una's father is the only one in the story to have any success in the field of Romance.
As usual Gibbons is always at her best describing Nature. I don't know why but Gibbon's novels, the feeling in G's novels reminds me of the feeling in Loren Eiseley's , ALL THE STRANGE HOURS. Don't ask. (