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Ladataan... Bellman & Black: A Novel (vuoden 2013 painos)Tekijä: Diane Setterfield (Tekijä)
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. Well written. As a ghost story, a bit on the subtle & psychologica sidel . Enjoyed the period detail about both the mill & the funerary business. ( ) We know the trope but it is no less pleasing for that. As a boy, William Bellman killed a rook with a slingshot, and the sense of foreboding is there from the beginning. Through his success at his uncle's woolen mill and in life itself, the rooks are always there in the form of short informational passages about them in a different typestyle. When ill luck later comes to William we are not surprised, but he believes he has made a business deal with the mysterious Mr. Black that guarantees success, as it does seem to do. The mourning goods shop of Bellman & Black is the best of its kind. But the deal may not be what Bellman thinks it is. I almost stopped reading after the first section about the woollen mill, since such mills were a scholarly subject for me. The love and detail with which the mill is rendered, however, continues throughout the book, and I kept reading despite the forbidding mood. Beautifully written and well-researched, it was a great read. We know the trope but it is no less pleasing for that. As a boy, William Bellman killed a rook with a slingshot, and the sense of foreboding is there from the beginning. Through his success at his uncle's woolen mill and in life itself, the rooks are always there in the form of short informational passages about them in a different typestyle. When ill luck later comes to William we are not surprised, but he believes he has made a business deal with the mysterious Mr. Black that guarantees success, as it does seem to do. The mourning goods shop of Bellman & Black is the best of its kind. But the deal may not be what Bellman thinks it is. I almost stopped reading after the first section about the woollen mill, since such mills were a scholarly subject for me. The love and detail with which the mill is rendered, however, continues throughout the book, and I kept reading despite the forbidding mood. Beautifully written and well-researched, it was a great read. Received in ebook format via www.netgalley.com. Read on an ipad using kindle software. The book was very well formatted, presented well, and all the more enjoyable for it. This is not a classic “ghost” story, although William is haunted throughout his life and is driven to work harder and harder – but he cant seem to remember what drives him or why. The man he comes to think of as “Mr Black” appears most frequently at the graveside of the people closest to William, and it's just after the death of his wife that William and Mr Black have a discussion that changes William's life. A fairly successful mill owner, William changes tack to set up Bellman And Black, a store covering the mourning fashions of the Victorians, an era who took mourning to a whole new (and expensive) level. He doesnt see Mr Black for years, finds he has little in common with his daughter Dora any more (and therefore discards her to his country home), and cuts himself off from all non business contact with humans, even if it means missing out on the human contact he occasionally craves. The business goes from strength to strength on the back of William's drive forward (and the unrealised haunting of the black feathers of the rook). It's only at the end, when Mr Black comes back to visit him, that William realises just what he has lost and forgotten. I've read the odd review that in this story “nothing happens” and that's a pretty fair comment. However, that's not the point of the story itself. You read it for the way it's written, the detail of the mill from start to finish of the weaving process; the detail of mourning (and half mourning, and quarter mourning); just what expenditure will be made at the height of the funeral process. You read it for the loss, and the understanding of what some people will do for financial success, without necessarily understanding if it's what they really want Kuuluu näihin kustantajien sarjoihinEmpúries Narrativa (450) Sisältyy tähän:DistinctionsNotable Lists
Killing a bird with his slingshot as a boy, William Bellman grows up a wealthy family man unaware of how his act of childhood cruelty will have terrible consequences until a wrenching tragedy compels him to enter into a macabre bargain with a stranger in black. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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