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Ladataan... The Hero of This BookTekijä: Elizabeth McCracken
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. I read this after hearing Ann Patchett recommend it. However, I didn't love it as much as she did. The book is about a writer grieving the death of her mother, and how difficult it is to deal with the loss and her grief. She had visited London with her mother, a larger-than-life personality, and now that her mother died, she goes back to London to wander the streets alone. She remembers various things they did and tries to work through her sorrow. She is also trying to deal with sale and disposal of her mother's house, which she really can't deal with, and lets it go without truly dealing with it. This book reads like a memoir, although it is a novel. This book seemed to have been written mostly so the author could come to terms (if possible) with the loss of her mother who is very mcuh missed. She was a veryt difficult, stubborn woman with much determination and also a great need for privacy. Because of the last trait, I was not sure what was real and what was fabricated in this book. I also did not find it very funny because I was distressed that both mother and daughter had so many difficulties in life. ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
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"Ten months after her mother's death, the narrator of The Hero of This Book takes a trip to London. The city was a favorite of her mother's, and as the narrator wanders the streets, she finds herself reflecting on her mother's life and their relationship. Thoughts of the past meld with questions of the future: Back in New England, the family home is now up for sale, its considerable contents already winnowed. The narrator, a writer, recalls all that made her complicated mother extraordinary--her brilliant wit, her generosity, her unbelievable obstinacy, her sheer will in seizing life despite physical difficulties--and finds herself wondering how her mother had endured. Even though she wants to respect her mother's nearly pathological sense of privacy, the woman must come to terms with whether making a chronicle of this remarkable life constitutes an act of love or betrayal. The Hero of This Book is a searing examination of grief and renewal, and of a deeply felt relationship between a child and her parents. What begins as a question of filial devotion ultimately becomes a lesson in what it means to write. At once comic and heartbreaking, with prose that delights at every turn, this is a novel of such piercing love and tenderness that we are reminded that art is what remains when all else falls away"--Dust jacket flap. 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:
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Mc Cracken's mother was wilful and opinionated, witty and optimistic - and great fun, despite her very real mobility difficulties. McCracken herself vacillates between protecting her mother's privacy and wanting to cherish her memories. She wants to write a book that's like 'David Copperfield except Jewish, and disabled, and female, and an American wiseacre, but there’s too much I don’t know and I can’t bear to make up.'
This is a funny, unsentimental and vivid book which is impossible to characterise - or to put down. ( )