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Indlæser... Becoming Strangers (udgave 2006)af Louise Dean
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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. About ten percent witty and incisive and 90 percent dull, I was glad to have this finished. Every time an plotline threatened to grab the narrative by the throat it was smothered within pages. The focus of the writing was all on the individual characters, their relationships with their spouses and others, and unfortunately they were mostly hard to like, particularly Annemieke who was an absolute cow. And what were the last chapters about? They hung around like the last guests at a party when you're dead on your feet and desperate to get to bed. ( ) What we feel may be shocking as our secret and personal tragedies, may in fact just be what life is all about. This is one of the saddest stories I have ever read - of lives colliding in a Caribbean holiday - a terminally ill man and his sex-minded wife, an elderly couple in their 80s on one of their first holidays, a so-called Christian man, and a beautiful Chinese woman with a sad story of her own.
Read this with an open mind and reserve your judgements. Because this is the only way we can live our lives sanely. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
After more than half a century of marriage, Dorothy and George are embarking on their first journey abroad together. Three decades younger, Jan and Annemieke are taking their last, as illness and incompatibility bring their unhappy union to an end. At first the luxury of a Caribbean resort is no match for the well-worn patterns of domestic life. Then the couples' paths cross, and a series of surprises ensues--a disappearance and an assault, most dramatically, but also a teapot tempest of passions, slights, misunderstandings, and small awakenings that punctuate a week in which each pair struggles to come to terms with what's been keeping them apart. A hit with readers and critics alike when it was published in England last year, Becoming Strangers is a different kind of love story, in which there's seldom a happy ending but sometimes a chance to redeem a life half-lived. No library descriptions found. |
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