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Ladataan... Angle of Repose (1971)Tekijä: Wallace Stegner
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. I enjoyed this, though I wonder whether like his protagonist, he has to rush the ending. He conveys well the hard life of his 19th century characters trying to make a living in the desserts and mountains of the West and Mexico, as well as the emotional complexities of human relationships. I think I enjoyed The Spectator Bird a little more. ( ) An excellent read for most of the book. Stegner has fantastic prose and his use of metaphor is as good as anyone. I really liked the detailed look at late 19th century life in western America. By the end of the main part of the book I was tired of the whining from Susan Berlinger Ward. I appreciate she was creative and worked hard but she was way too self involved. Loved Oliver though. But the ending was just not good. Didn't like the way the ex-wife snuck in. Well-formed characters, with very descriptive language. A friend referred me to this book because of its quality (1972 Pulitzer) and because of its study of mining in the early west, a particular interest of mine. The book was more of a character study than a mining study, but I did appreciate the information about mining and obtaining water. As I read the book I learned about its link to a real couple of the period, which I liked. I found the Introduction, which was quite long, to be "too much too soon". I did not finish the intro, and after reading it as a postlude, I think it fits better there. I found the narrator's role to be more distracting than helpful, but it was an interesting approach to casting the story. The Introduction helps understand this. The book is 630 pages, and I had to get past 150 before I could see why it is great. Then, I liked it a lot. It is primarily the story of a woman who lived to adulthood, and was an employed illustrator/writer, in the East. She married a man who was going west as an engineer in app. 1870, expecting they would be back in 2 years. She and he were in the west for 60 years. ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
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HTML: Wallace Stegner's uniquely American classic centers on Lyman Ward, a noted historian who relates a fictionalized biography of his pioneer grandparents at a time when he has become estranged from his own family. Through a combination of research, memory, and exaggeration, Ward voices ideas concerning the relationship between history and the present, art and life, parents and children, husbands and wives. Like other great quests in literature, Lyman Ward's investigation leads him deep into the dark shadows of his own life. The result is a deeply moving novel that, through the prism of one family, illuminates the American present against the fascinating background of its past. Set in many parts of the West, Angle of Repose is a story of discovery??personal, historical, and geographical??that endures as Wallace Stegner's masterwork: an illumination of yesterday's reality that speaks to today's Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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