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Ladataan... Count the Ways: A Novel (vuoden 2021 painos)Tekijä: Joyce Maynard (Tekijä)
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. Skimmed for book club. Even skimming it, it felt long. This was boring, depressing and full of 'issues' for book clubs to discuss. I disliked it and everyone in it very much. ( ) The anatomy of a marriage and the aftermath when divorce occurs, which spans several decades. I thought it was realistic, but both heart-breaking and infuriating at the same time. I understand the author has written a sequel which will be coming out in 2024 - I'll be anxious to read it. Joyce Maynard is an author I have recently discovered, and I'm enjoying her books very much. I received a complimentary digital copy of this book from the publisher and Library Thing. This review is my voluntary and unbiased opinion. I actually listened to the audiobook while reading this ARC. There were some chapters which did not make it into the final product. I don’t believe they impacted this long complex story about family and acceptance. Eleanor raised her three children, Alison, Ursula and Toby in a modest and traditional family. Their father Cam started an annual tradition for the family to create "cork people" which they named before setting them off in the river. Fast forward and Eleanor's children are grown with children of their own. The years have been filled with drama and bitter words. The idyllic life of which Eleanor had dreamed slowly disintegrates after tragedy befalls the family. Over the years, the kids go in their own very different direction after their parent's divorce. The story is complex with colorful characters who can draw mixed emotions given the themes of gender identity, family values, and forgiveness. The cork people are symbolic of most families, as not everyone who floats in the water will make in down the river. Life is filled with many challenges which usually catch you off guard. Tämä arvostelu kirjoitettiin LibraryThingin Varhaisia arvostelijoita varten. I received a complimentary digital copy of this book from the publisher and Library Thing. This review is my voluntary and unbiased opinion. I actually listened to the audiobook while reading this ARC. There were some chapters which did not make it into the final product. I don’t believe they impacted this long complex story about family and acceptance. Eleanor raised her three children, Alison, Ursula and Toby in a modest and traditional family. Their father Cam started an annual tradition for the family to create "cork people" which they named before setting them off in the river. Fast forward and Eleanor's children are grown with children of their own. The years have been filled with drama and bitter words. The idyllic life of which Eleanor had dreamed slowly disintegrates after tragedy befalls the family. Over the years, the kids go in their own very different direction after their parent's divorce. The story is complex with colorful characters who can draw mixed emotions given the themes of gender identity, family values, and forgiveness. The cork people are symbolic of most families, as not everyone who floats in the water will make in down the river. Life is filled with many challenges which usually catch you off guard.
Eleanor grew up with alcoholic parents in an unhappy home. Eleanor and Cam met in Vermont in the 1970’s they fall in love get married and have three children. Eleanor grew up to be an artist and children’s book author she was the money-maker and her husband Cam made wooden bowls for craft fairs. Eleanor and Cam live on a farm in New Hampshire then tragedy strikes and Eleanor’s marriage unravels. This beautifully written story of heartbreak and survival was a great read. PalkinnotDistinctions
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HTML: In her most ambitious novel to date, New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard returns to the themes that are the hallmarks of her most acclaimed work in a mesmerizing story of a familyâ??from the hopeful early days of young marriage to parenthood, divorce, and the costly aftermath that ripples through all their lives Eleanor and Cam meet at a crafts fair in Vermont in the early 1970s. She's an artist and writer, he makes wooden bowls. Within four years they are parents to three children, two daughters and a red-headed son who fills his pockets with rocks, plays the violin and talks to God. To Eleanor, their New Hampshire farm provides everything she always wantedâ??summer nights watching Cam's softball games, snow days by the fire and the annual tradition of making paper boats and cork people to launch in the brook every spring. If Eleanor and Cam don't make love as often as they used to, they have something that matters more. Their family. Then comes a terrible accident, caused by Cam's negligence. Unable to forgive him, Eleanor is consumed by bitterness, losing herself in her life as a mother, while Cam finds solace with a new young partner. Over the decades that follow, the five members of this fractured family make surprising discoveries and decisions that occasionally bring them together, and often tear them apart. Tracing the course of their livesâ??through the gender transition of one child and another's choice to completely break with her motherâ??Joyce Maynard captures a family forced to confront essential, painful truths of its past, and find redemption in its darkest hours. A story of holding on and learning to let go, Count the Ways is an achingly beautiful, poignant, and deeply compassionate novel of home, parenthood, love, and forgi Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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