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Talk Before Sleep: A Novel door Elizabeth…
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Talk Before Sleep: A Novel (origineel 1997; editie 2006)

door Elizabeth Berg

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Fiction. Literature. HTML:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Unforgettable . . . Truth rings forth clearly from every page. . . . One minute you’re laughing, the next you’re crying. . . . You’ll want to give a copy to every good woman friend you have.”—The Charlotte Observer
/> What do you say when you know you don’t have forever? Ruth has been Ann’s closest friend for years—her confidante, her solace, her comic relief, her tutor in life’s mysterious ways. So when Ruth becomes ill, Ann is there for her without question. After all, it is Ruth who encouraged Ann to become who she is, Ruth whose rebellious, eccentric spirit provided the perfect counterpoint to Ann’s conventional, safe outlook. And so the friends go on as they always have . . . gossiping, consoling, and sharing intimate secrets—but with the knowledge that each shared evening could be their last.
Acclaimed author Elizabeth Berg has created a searing novel about the strength and salvation of women’s friendships. Deeply moving and surprisingly funny, Talk Before Sleep is an intimate, uncensored portrait of love and loss, struggle and resilience.

“Tender and irreverent by turns, [Talk Before Sleep] offers mature, intelligent and buoyant spirit, like a very good friend.”—Houston Post
“Entertaining, finely crafted . . . Berg tackles serious issues with grace.”—San Francisco Chronicle
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Titel:Talk Before Sleep: A Novel
Auteurs:Elizabeth Berg
Info:Ballantine Books (2006), Paperback, 240 pages
Verzamelingen:Reviewed, Gelezen, maar niet in bezit
Waardering:*1/2
Trefwoorden:novel, fiction, Chick lit, ultimate reading list - popular fiction, popular fiction, death, friendship, contemporary fiction, adultery, cancer

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Talk Before Sleep door Elizabeth Berg (1997)

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    BookshelfMonstrosity: Although Talk Before Sleep focuses on the strong bond between two lifelong friends, rather than the brief but emotionally intense relationship between a hired caregiver and her charge, both moving, character-driven novels confront the issue of mortality head-on, without sentimentality.… (meer)
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Friends share the last weeks of their dying friend. Pretty good read.
  bentstoker | Jan 26, 2024 |
Two friends deal with one's breast cancer. Poignant without being maudlin. Our book group didn't like the way she pushed all her friends away at the end. The friends just didn't seem to really connect. Maybe that was her point. ( )
  BookConcierge | Jul 17, 2023 |
This is the kind of novel I normally don't love to read. It is probably chick lit and it is definitely meant to be a tear-jerker. The thing is, I have watched the slow death of someone I love and I think Berg probably has as well. She gets some of the most important aspects of that right.

"How is it that we dare to honk at others in traffic, when we know nothing about where they have just come from or what they are on their way to?"

"I remember the exact order of the canned soup in the cupboard, and then I think, well, it's probably been changed now, and that terrifies me. I want to go home. I just want to go home. Can't you understand that?" -- I could understand it perfectly. I have so often wanted to go home, which is just wanting to go back in time, just wanting to go back to something that sadly no longer exists anywhere.

"Our conversations are silly--about nothing, really, less and less consequential. But they are comforting to both of us, I know. They remind me of what we talk about before we go to sleep, any of us, the lazy, low-voiced assurances we offer each other...Always we're just checking to see that we're safe. I've always thought that was the funniest thing, given the vastness of the dark we lie down in."

I never actually thought I knew these women. I didn't relate completely to the lives they lead. Still, there is a deeper truth about them, about all of us, that Berg taps. I thought of my mother's long struggle. I thought of my sister breathing out of this world so softly and leaving me desperate to have one more conversation, one more laugh. Berg made me cry, and I learned early on that one of the great meanings of literature is catharsis. ( )
  mattorsara | Aug 11, 2022 |
Flawless and beautiful story about the friendship of women. ( )
  Tosta | Jul 5, 2021 |
A beautiful story about friendship between two women and the support given after one is diagnosed with cancer. ( )
  terran | Jan 18, 2021 |
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For women with cancer who have found their fire, and for those who are still searching
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This morning before I came to Ruth's house, I made yet another casserole for my husband and my daughter.
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Fiction. Literature. HTML:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Unforgettable . . . Truth rings forth clearly from every page. . . . One minute you’re laughing, the next you’re crying. . . . You’ll want to give a copy to every good woman friend you have.”—The Charlotte Observer
What do you say when you know you don’t have forever? Ruth has been Ann’s closest friend for years—her confidante, her solace, her comic relief, her tutor in life’s mysterious ways. So when Ruth becomes ill, Ann is there for her without question. After all, it is Ruth who encouraged Ann to become who she is, Ruth whose rebellious, eccentric spirit provided the perfect counterpoint to Ann’s conventional, safe outlook. And so the friends go on as they always have . . . gossiping, consoling, and sharing intimate secrets—but with the knowledge that each shared evening could be their last.
Acclaimed author Elizabeth Berg has created a searing novel about the strength and salvation of women’s friendships. Deeply moving and surprisingly funny, Talk Before Sleep is an intimate, uncensored portrait of love and loss, struggle and resilience.

“Tender and irreverent by turns, [Talk Before Sleep] offers mature, intelligent and buoyant spirit, like a very good friend.”—Houston Post
“Entertaining, finely crafted . . . Berg tackles serious issues with grace.”—San Francisco Chronicle
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