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Ladataan... St. Ivo (vuoden 2020 painos)Tekijä: Joanna Hershon (Tekijä), Joanna Hershon (Kertoja), Recorded Books (Publisher)
TeostiedotSt Ivo (tekijä: Joanna Hershon)
   - Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta.  proustitute | Apr 2, 2023 |   "It would, she reasoned, be impossible for anyone to hear how Leda's senior year in high school was unfolding, and to not at least partially blame the parents or certainly the mother. Even as Sarah felt completely blindsided and not to blame, she had to be. Who wouldn't think that? How could she fault people? She was the mother. She was to blame." (  ) overlycriticalelisa | Feb 27, 2021 |  ) froxgirl | Aug 9, 2020 | Two couples, once good friends attempt to reconcile when one of the couples has a young daughter. Twenty years have passed and when they knew each other before, the other couple had a young child. They arrive to spend the weekend together, both are hiding something from the other, and tension simmers due to this. There is as much meaning in what is unsaid as in what is said. There is so much going on under the surface. The truth is, this is life. Messy, complicated, the pulling apart, the making of concessions. I could relate to this book, these characters. Dreams can turn into failures, opportunities lost. Hopes, heartbreaks, hope and expectations. People come and go, in this book and in our lives. We act out of character, do things we don't understand as one of the characters does in the book. The writing is terrific, the dialogue flows naturally. A book that makes one think about if afterwards is not rare, but not common either. I just feel lucky when I find/ read one that does. ARC from Edelweiss. ( ) Beamis12 | May 17, 2020 | What can I say about this book that I won't trash it? It was just ok and I was bored with the subjects by the end of the book but luckily it was short and I finished it pretty fast. ( )1  sweetbabyjane58 | Jan 12, 2020 | näyttää 5/5 ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
"Over the course of a weekend, two couples reckon with the long-hidden secrets that have shaped their families in Joanna Hershon's charged, poignant novel of motherhood and friendship. It's the end of summer when we meet Sarah, the end of summer and the middle of her life, the middle of her career (she hopes it's not the end), the middle of her marriage (recently repaired). And despite the years that have passed since she last saw her daughter, she is still very much in the middle of figuring out what happened to Leda, what role she played, and how she will let that loss affect the rest of her life. Enter a mysterious stranger on a train, an older man taking the subway to Brooklyn who sees right into her. Then a mugging, her phone stolen, and with it any last connection to Leda. And then an invitation, friends from the past and a weekend in the country with their new, unexpected baby. Over the course of three hot September days, the two couples try to reconnect. Events that have been set in motion, circumstances and feelings kept hidden, rise to the surface, forcing each to ask not just how they ended up where they are, but how they ended up who they are. Unwinding like a suspense novel, Joanna Hershon's St. Ivo is a powerful investigation into the meaning of choice and family, whether we ever know the people closest to us, and how, when someone goes missing from our lives, we can ever let them go." -- Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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 Google Books — Ladataan...LajityypitMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Kongressin kirjaston luokitusArvio (tähdet)Keskiarvo: (3.38)
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Joanna Hershon’s story of middle-aged Sarah and Matthew’s fraught marriage—haunted by the specter of their daughter, Leda—brushes up against a strange encounter with a Czech man on a Brooklyn-bound subway train; a three-day weekend upstate with their estranged friends, Kiki and Arman (another couple having their own set of conflicts as new parents); and an armed assault in Prospect Park.
As these traumatic events collide and conflict with both past and present tensions, Hershon is able to build a highly convincing portrait of how absence is a marked presence in our lives, and how guilt can infect our interactions and relationships with those we love as well as with ourselves.
4.5 stars. Highly recommended. (