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Ladataan... Redemption Falls (alkuperäinen julkaisuvuosi 2007; vuoden 2007 painos)Tekijä: Joseph O'Connor
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. Redemption Falls was recommended by Library Thing because I read Cold Mountain. I was in the need of a read so I gave it a shot but my wife returned it to the library before I could read it. Luckily, it hadn't been checked out when I was finally ready to pick it up. At first I didn't know what to think I usually read non-fiction so I had to ease back into fiction. This was a strong recommendation because at times I kept thinking that this book really reads like a crappier version of Cold Mountain. As I kept reading the presentation really drew me in the way the author had chapters of varying length and different writing styles like journal entries, songs, wanted posters, transcripts, and a nice wrap up in the epilogue. In spots it reads like a cheesy romance novel, and I had to work through those parts because its not normally my style, but I'm glad I made it through. The O'Keeffe character had strong appeal to me and really helped me get through some slow spots. I also love this era and this novel does a good job of painting that 19th century picture. The dynamic of reconstruction in the south was also a great draw for me. The Irish general O'Keeffe Governor of a resentful southern town,Redemption Falls, was a great source of conflict all the way to O'Keeffe's death. O'Keeffe's relationship with a wild southern child veteran of the Civil War really appealed to my guilty pleasure of the macabre. All in all this book was worth the cheesy romance and slow spots, but my issues with this book did indeed hurt its rating. Just because this book isn't my usual cup of tea its still a good book and I enjoyed it. It almost didn't happen but tried something new and I would like to thank Library Thing for helping make it happen. Le destin de plusieurs personnages au cœur des territoires sauvages américains à la fin de la guerre civile. Un récit violent, émouvant et très réaliste qui ne laisse pas indifférent malgré quelques longueurs. Tout de même un peu déçue par rapport à l'Etoile des mers du même auteur même si toujours superbement écrit. The book is set in the days following the American civil war and it's main themes are the chaos, hurt and continuing hatreds that civil war creates. Admittedly it isn't the easiest book to get into. The language in the first chapter is as dense and deliberately confusing as anything I've read; and once you're past that the story itself is given depth by letters, interviews and handbills. All of which makes for a book you need to concentrate on. Added to this O'Connor allows for different points of view and so different realisations of the same event which means the plot isn't a straight forward one. But for me that was a real joy. This a novel that makes you think, allows your imagination a part in the process and encourages ambiguity. ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
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1865. The American Civil War is ending. Eighteen years after the famine ship Star of the Sea docked at New York, the daughter of two of her passengers sets out from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on a walk across a devastated America. Eliza Duane Mooney is searching for a young boy she has not seen in four years, one of the hundred thousand children drawn into the war. His fate has been mysterious and will prove extraordinary. It's a walk that will have consequences for many seemingly unconnected survivors: a love-struck cartographer, a haunted Latina poetess, rebel guerrilla Cole McLaurenson, runaway slave Elizabeth Longstreet and the mercurial revolutionary James Con O?Keeffe, who commanded a brigade of Irish immigrants in the Union Army and is now Governor of a western wilderness where nothing is as it seems. Redemption Falls is a tale of war and forgiveness, of strangers in a strange land, of love put to the ultimate test. Packed with music, balladry, poetry and storytelling, this is a riveting historical novel of urgent contemporary resonance, from the author of the internationally best-selling Star of the Sea. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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It takes place in the years right after the Civil War, about the convergence of the aforementioned million characters who all had different war experiences, on both sides, and many of them are Irish immigrants (the author is Irish, as if you couldn't tell by how wordy he is).
Overall, it's powerful writing and very sad (did I mention Irish?). And I was totally surprised by the surprise ending.
One thing I was not expecting, but maybe I should have given the themes and setting, is that there are a few episodes of graphic violence -- not tons, and graphic in a literary way (which seems worse), but still. Just so you know. ( )