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Bezig met laden... The Three Weissmanns of Westport (2010)door Cathleen Schine
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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. I was interested in this book because of the rave review in the NYT with many comparisons to Jane Austin. Don't waste your time with this book. I had to force myself to finish reading it. The characters were dull, self-absorbed and unlikeable and the story was annoyingly boring. The only plus is that it's a short book. ( ) Mysterious, romantic, funny. The writing is extremely controlled and spare. The characters are all somewhat silly but they have this clear light revealing them. The Austen parallels were pretty great. I was just thinking about qualities of light and the Westport/Bath comparison. But then really Palm Springs is Bath because of all the rich folks going to hang out there and rub elbows. Cousin Lou was hard to imagine as a real person but I love him anyway. And the fact that Roberts is always there and is unplumbed even at the end is great. This book was just meh to me and I never use that word. The characters and the plot were just plain boring and though I know that you can have a good relationship with your ex even if you divorce at age 78, Betty considered her husband dead. Because of him, she and her daughters (also woe is me, I lost my job, I'm bankrupt (Miranda) but thankfully Annie had a job and wasn't so woe is me) moved to a tiny cottage in CT thanks to Cousin Lou. There were a lot of characters in this book that were sort of quirky. The end of the book was just what I thought it would be except for Miranda which totally came out of the blue. At first I found the characters in this book to be vacuous, narcissistic, and not at all self-reflective. The laugh-out-loud funny bits kept me reading, and eventually I began to not exactly care about the characters but at least to find them less grating enough that I could enjoy the story. I listened to this on audio while perambulating (and occasionally cantering) about my neighborhood, and it was great for that. It's been too long since I read Sense and Sensibility for me to speak on how similar (or not) this book is to that one, but Schine certainly captured Austen's way of lovingly poking fun at the members of the upper classes.
The sparkling, crisp, clever, deft, hilarious and deeply affecting new novel by Cathleen Schine, her best yet. So many Gentle Readers wrote to us and so many Janeite acquaintances said to us, “Did you hear about this new book, The Three Weissmanns of Westport?” that we became intrigued. We did not receive a review copy, but everyone kept telling us about it and seemed surprised we had not read it, so we could not help thinking it might be a good sort of book and one that perhaps we should read in our copious free time. A while back, we noticed it on the list of NY Times Bestsellers at Kobo for a very good price, and we had a generous coupon, so decided to give it a try. The book is a modern retelling of Sense and Sensibility. After 50 years of marriage, Joseph Weissmann tells his wife, Betty, that he wants a divorce, and that she has to vacate her beloved prewar Upper West Side apartment, which she has lovingly tended and improved since the 1950s, to make way for his new love, Felicity. Fanny Dashwood-like, Felicity has convinced Joseph that by kicking Betty out of her home, he is actually being generous, and Joseph very much wants to be generous. Werd geïnspireerd doorPrijzenOnderscheidingen
Betty Weissman loses her elegant New York apartment when her husband of nearly fifty years divorces her for what he says are irreconcilable differences, but is in actuality another woman. She and her two grown daughters who quite unexpectedly find themselves the middle-aged products of a broken home and whose own lives are in varying states of disrepair and confusion regroup in a small, run-down Westport, Connecticut, beach cottage. As they wrestle with economic hard times, love starts to blossom for both sisters, and they find themselves struggling with the dueling demands of reason and romance. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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