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Ladataan... The Orange Blossom SpecialTekijä: Betsy Carter
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. Likeable characters, but no central event or crisis, or even any real change. It read like a travelogue of a few people's lives, and then after a while it ended. I assumed that the Orange Blossom Special might actually have something to do with the book, but it didn't really enter the plot until the last chunk, and it wasn't really at all pivotal. A pretty directionless book. ( ) When Tessie Lockhart's husband dies, leaving her all alone with her eleven-year-old daughter in Carbondale, Illinios, she decides there is a need to make changes. Gainsville, Florida seems to be just the change they need. Tessie and Dinah both adjust to life in Florida and to the death of Tessie's husband, Dinah's father. Tessie gets a new job, struggles to make a life for her daughter and begins an affair with a married mogul. Dinah befriends the richest, most popular girl in school and also develops a friendship with Eddie, a boy with an extra finger and no friends to speak of. From the late 1950's to 1986, this book follows a unique cast of characters through the pivotal years in their lives. It's a story of survival, friendship, and moving on. Read this book if: *you like southern fiction *you like books that take place in small towns *you like stories about mothers and daughters näyttää 5/5 ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
When we first meet Tessie Lockhart in 1958, she is pinning her hair into a French twist, dabbing Jean Naté on her wrists, and getting ready to change her life. This widowed mother of a thirteen-year-old has decided it's time for a fresh start for both of them, time to leave behind Carbondale, Illinois, and the pain of loss. Tessie and her daughter move to Gainesville, Florida, where they discover that they aren't the only ones struggling to move forward in the wake of tremendous grief. Betsy Carter has perfectly captured both the innocence of the 1950s, when even the complex events of our lives seemed somehow easier to endure, and the startling and irreversible changes of the 1960s. A story about the relationships people develop in the face of loss, The Orange Blossom Special introduces us to a remarkable cast of characters, all of whom are tested--and transformed--by the changes in their midst. In her own touching and funny style, Carter shows us the unexpected ways in which strangers can become family. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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