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Indlæser... Linda and Mary (udgave 2014)af Molly Rainier
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. So what do you do when you discover a cold, wet, frightened, very primitive-looking Cro-Magnon woman hiding on your fire escape during a rainstorm? Well naturally, if you’re Mary Polleti, you take her in, bathe her, dress her, and quickly try to make her feel at home. You do it because that’s exactly what your Italian immigrant mother used to do with all the poor homeless Depression-era men and women she brought home to take care of whenever and wherever she found them. There’s nothing strange about that, right? It’s a trait called goodness. And Mary Polleti has inherited that trait in spades! Mary leads a very ordinary middle-class, blue-collar life. She’s been married since she was a teenager to a regular neighborhood guy named Tony. Naturally, he’s another second-generation Italian immigrant. It’s 1968, and they live in an apartment in Brooklyn, New York. Their life is an everyday litany of pleasant and familiar routines…that is, until their new houseguest turns up and becomes a crazy catalyst for change. Mary names her new companion Linda. She expects nothing from her but friendship. Both women exude goodness and easily communicate love, concern, and support for each other. They become inseparable. Eventually, Linda is even able to learn most of Mary’s routines. “Mary and Linda” is a short, charming, and perfectly delightful debut novel. I smiled my way through every chapter, each one reading like a light comedy sketch full of quirky characters and crazy situations. The novel celebrates the importance of supportive female friendship in women’s lives. It is also a novel that honors the overpowering allure of natural goodness. I loved this book and read it completely in one day. It’s brimming with humor, heart, and humanity. I recommend it highly. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
A cave woman appears on a fire escape in Brooklyn in 1967, a time when nothing seen on the street or in the news is surprising anymore. It's a time of sit ins and love ins, of mini skirts, tie dyes and Afros. The Vietnam war. As Mary Polleti, housewife, watches a storm rolling in over Flatbush, she sees the woman huddled outside her kitchen window and reaches out to her. This is the beginning of an unlikely, tender friendship between two women and the opportunity that opens up to Mary that she could never have imagined possible. With Linda as catalyst, the story carries on to an unexpected resolution. Sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, it's a story about women, and for women. No library descriptions found. |
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