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Bezig met laden... Misgivings: My Mother, My Father, Myselfdoor C. K. Williams
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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. People seem to really love this thing but I believe their impression of the author started with his poems. Mine started with this memoir, and I have to say that I was not that impressed. In the beginning, especially, he comes across as the poor spoiled rich kid, and the descriptions of his parents do get a bit better, but that upbringing colors the entire story for me. He complains about his rather large father insisting on riding his smaller horse when he is a still young boy, but wait a minute - his dad bought him his own horse? He acknowledges that there is a sister and brother, but only a couple of times - the story is about his relationship to his parents as if he was an only child. And so it goes. Several times he brings up how, in his adult life, he is still taking his father's money to live on so he can pursue his writing, which is something I absolutely cannot relate to. And I'm not much for poetry, but if you are you may get more out of his descriptions. Gotta be honest here. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
"Misgivings is C. K. Williams's searing recollection of his family's extreme dynamics and of his parents' deaths after years of struggle, bitterness, inner conflict, and, finally, love." "Williams's father was an "ordinary businessman" - angry, demanding, addicted to the tension he created with the people he loved; a man who could recite the Greek myths to his son yet vowed never to apologize to anybody. Williams's mother was a housewife, a woman with a great capacity for pleasure, who was stoical about the family's dire early poverty yet remained affected by it even when they became well-off. Together, these two formed what Williams calls the "conspiracy that made me who I am." His account of their life together and of their deaths - his father's in a final abandonment of the will to live, his mother's with calm resignation - is a literary form of the reconciliation the family achieved at the end of his parents' lives, composed as a series of short takes, a double helix of experience and recollection."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)811.54Literature English (North America) American poetry 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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