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Bezig met laden... Dit feest heeft lang genoeg geduurd autobiografische roman (2010)door Rupert Thomson
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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. No! In a word disappointing: I found the writer and his brothers to be completely self-indulgent people and not at all interesting or amusing. ( ) Rupert Thomson writes movingly about his life and his family, centred around the death of his father in the 1980s when he and his two brothers return to their hometown of Eastbourne. Thomson writes about his childhood, his mother and then his step-mother in addition to his father, his relationships with friends and family, and events subsequent to his father's death. Central is his relationship with his two younger brothers, Robin his younger to whom he is clearly very close, and Ralph his youngest. while staying together in the family home immediately after their father's death a rift develops between Ralph and the other two, a rift Rupert does not understand and one that will take some twenty five years to resolve. I did not realise when I bought the book that Rupert Thomas was raised in Eastbourne, and was almost a contemporary of mine, but I must admit much of the appeal of his memoir is the familiarity of the location: I recognized the house he grew up in from his descriptions, I frequented many of the same places as he and Robin, I attended the same art school as Robin just a few years in advance; so this was a as much a nostalgic trip for me! But I mention this because it highlights the quality of the writing which brings all this alive so convincingly. This Party's Got to Stop is an engaging account, beautifully written, and at times very moving. I particularly found the closeness Rupert and Robin enjoyed very touching. While the author does bot dwell much on his own career, I get the impression from the extent of his travels alone that he has lead a very interesting life - yet he dwells little on this aspect, much of the attention is directed away from himself - this is not a book about the author, but about his family and relationships.
You might cynically wonder why Thomson should wish to tap into the lucrative memoir-market eight novels into his career; and there are points at which he lapses into the standard tropes of the genre: "My grief is like a jigsaw, I can only deal with it one piece at a time." But for the most part it is written in the precise, wiry prose that brings hallucinatory intensity to his fiction. As a gift of rapprochement to a long estranged brother it seems so heartfelt and generous that Thomson must be glad he chose not publish anonymously. And for our sake, we can be glad he didn't wait until after he was dead. Centraal in het boek staan de maanden die volgen op de dood van zijn vader. Puntsgewijs en consciëntieus, haast met chirurgische precisie, ontleedt Thomson de familiegeschiedenis, in een ultieme poging grip te krijgen op het hoe en waarom van de breuk met zijn broer. Het resultaat is een integer en bedachtzaam boek, waarin Thomson de hand in eigen boezem niet schuwt, maar dat literair gezien niet tot zijn spannendste werk behoort Prijzen
A powerful memoir that reveals the fragility of family life in graphic and often heartbreaking detail. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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