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Indlæser... Bottomland: A Novelaf Michelle Hoover
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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. This book lost me when it switched to the second and then third narrator. I skipped ahead to see what really happened to the daughters, but then I called it quits. ( ) I liked the audio version a lot until the second to last narrator who talked way too fast. If I slowed it down she had a terrible Texas drawl. Then I got lost in the switching timeframes and all the new characters with the last narrator. I think I would have liked the book better--it is a good story about a time period and subject we don't hear enough about, often lost in WWII stories. The All Iowa Reads selection for 2017 is set in on Iowa farm during World War 1. The parents of the family had emigrated from Germany years before and their neighbors suspect them of being loyal to their homeland, especially when neither of the two sons in the family signs up to fight. The eldest daughter, Nan, struggles to keep the family together after her mother's death from influenza. Her father is grief stricken and remote, her older brothers are preoccupied with the farm and her younger sisters are tired of their grueling chores and long for the life they see depicted in magazines. Two of the younger sisters escape to Chicago to experience the finer things, which involved twelve-hours days at a garment factory and life at a boarding house. The tone of this book is foreboding, reminding us that life in rural America in the early decades of the twentieth century was hard. This was not the land of flappers and Charlestons. I have such mixed feelings about this despite the 4 stars. I didn't love the writing and in fact, every time I picked it up, I felt like I was getting ready to slog. But I LOVED the story of a Midwestern family after WWI and the two youngest daughters who run away to the big city. It's very Willa Cather and Theodore Dreiser and the fact that it's a family story of Hoover's just makes it better. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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At once intimate and sweeping, Bottomland-the anticipated second novel from Michelle Hoover-follows the Hess family in the years after World War I as they attempt to rid themselves of the anti-German sentiment that left a stain on their name. But when the youngest two daughters vanish in the middle of the night, the family must piece together what happened while struggling to maintain their life on the unforgiving Iowa plains.In the weeks after Esther and Myrle's disappearance, their siblings desperately search for the sisters, combing the stark farmlands, their neighbors' houses, and the unfamiliar world of far-off Chicago. Have the girls run away to another farm? Have they gone to the city to seek a new life? Or were they abducted? Ostracized, misunderstood, and increasingly isolated in their tightly knit small town in the wake of the war, the Hesses fear the worst. Told in the voices of the family patriarch and his children, this is a haunting literary mystery that spans decades before its resolution. Hoover deftly examines the intrepid ways a person can forge a life of their own despite the dangerous obstacles of prejudice and oppression. No library descriptions found. |
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