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Ladataan... The Flight of Gemma Hardy (2012)Tekijä: Margot Livesey
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. I liked this book a lot. I liked the first 2/3rds of the book much better than the last 1/3rd. For the record I'm not a fan of Jane Eyre but I did like Gemma. It might have gotten me hungry to read again. ( ) This novel is a retelling of Jane Eyre largely set in the 1960s Scotland, so of course I loved it. Gemma Hardy starts out as an orphan who is not well liked by her aunt and cousins, is sent away to a boarding school, becomes a nanny to a mysterious family, and promptly falls in love with her handsome employer. Aspects of the tale have been updated - there's no crazy wife in the attic - and other pieces of the story have been moved around, but this novel evokes many of the things I love about the original - a rich atmosphere, a strong female voices, and a fierce determination to make one's own way in the world.
But like a production of “Twelfth Night” where all the characters are played as cowboys or Prohibition-era gangsters, “Gemma Hardy” left me wondering why “Jane Eyre” needs to be resettled in the late 1950s. Livesey makes little of the contrast between the two tales or even the contrast between the two eras. Indeed, Gemma’s life in these small, remote towns seems so much closer to the early 19th century than the mid-20th that I was always startled when an automobile intruded on the scene. ....When an author dons the mantle of a classic, it’s not unreasonable to expect her to reanimate it in some significant way. There’s nothing jarring or silly about this homage (for that, see Sherri Browning Erwin’s “Jane Slayre” with a werewolf bride in the attic), but for all of Livesey’s intelligent and graceful storytelling, she keeps Gemma Hardy’s flight too close to the ground. "This original slant on a classic story line captures the reader's interest and sustains it to the end. Fans of modern interpretations of the classics will particularly enjoy." . “The Flight of Gemma Hardy,” Livesey’s appealing new novel, is, as she has explained, a kind of continued conversation, a “recasting” of both “Jane Eyre” and Livesey’s own childhood. Set mostly in Scotland in the late 1950s and ’60s, the narrative follows the fortunes of a young girl, Gemma Hardy, who is beset by bad luck. ...Livesey is a lovely, fluid writer. There’s much pleasure to be had in her descriptions of neolithic sites in Orkney and, most of all, her abiding affinity for the natural world: “the limpet’s frill of muscle” found while the young Gemma pulls shells off the rocks in a windswept cove, the “gleaming scar” on a beech tree that has lost the branch where a rope swing once hung, the experience of “retrieving two warm eggs from a drowsy red hen.” It isn’t, however, until the final third of the novel, when Gemma, risking her own life, is forced to leave what she loves and act independently, that “The Flight of Gemma Hardy” becomes its most satisfying self. How do you recast a classic? Follow Margot Livesey's lead in The Flight of Gemma Hardy, a riveting retelling of Jane Eyre that puts the familiar feminist heroine in the pre-feminist world of early 1960s Scotland. The result is distinct and even daring — and far from derivative. It's a tricky prospect, paying (nearly) modern homage to a piece of literature that was done so right the first time, but from the first few pages, Flight soars on its own writerly wings. Saanut innoituksensa tästä:Kotiopettajattaren romaani (tekijä: Charlotte Brontë)
Overcoming a life of hardship and loneliness, Gemma Hardy, a brilliant and determined young woman, accepts a position as an au pair on the remote Orkney Islands where she faces her biggest challenge yet. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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