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Indlæser... Behind the Scenes at the Museum (original 1995; udgave 1996)af Kate Atkinson
Work InformationFamiliehistorier : roman af Kate Atkinson (1995)
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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. Darky humourous look at four generations of late 19C - mid 20C Yorkshire women with decidedly mixed feelings (honest ones) about their children; epiphanies re 'leading the wrong life' resonate throughout. Better 2nd time around when one can concentrate on the story, words and imagery rather than only plot. Set mostly in York, England, this is a multigenerational family saga in which protagonist Ruby Lennox narrates the story of her life from conception in 1951 into adulthood. She of her distant mother, two siblings, grandmother, and great grandmother. Ruby inserts what she calls “footnotes” to provide the necessary background and historic context. It is character-driven. It covers family secrets and tragedies. The writing is solid. My main issue with it is that it is not particularly engaging. I was not enthralled with the idea of a narrator that was self-aware at conception, especially in a book that is realistic in all other ways. It really drags in places, and I was tempted to set it aside. I liked it but didn’t love it. Rubí Lennox fue concebida por Bunty a regañadientes y nació mientras su padre, George, estaba en el Dog and Hare, en Doncaster, diciéndole a una mujer, vestida de verde esmeralda, que no estaba casado. Bunty nunca quiso casarse con George, pero era la único que quedaba. En realidad, quería ser Vivien Leigh o Celia Johnson, deseaba que un héroe romántico la secuestrase y se la llevase a América. Pero ahí estaba, varada en un piso sobre la tienda de animales en una antigua calle junto a la catedral de York, con la sensata e irónica Patricia, de cinco años, la glotona y revoltosa Gillian, que se negaba a ser ignorada. Rubí cuenta la historia de su familia desde el día, a finales de siglo XIX, en que un fotógrafo ambulante francés captura a la frági y hermosa Alice y a sus hijos, como flores en ámbar, hasta los sobrecogedores, divertidos y memorables acontecimientos en la vida de la propia Rubí. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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Psykologisk thriller, hvor privatdetektiven Jackson Brodie skal opklare tre historiske sager: en 3 årig piges sporløse forsvinden, en tilsyneladende galnings nedslagtning af en ung pige på et advokatkontor og en ung mor, der er dømt for øksemord på sin mand, hvis datter er forsvundet. No library descriptions found. |
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On a practical level, the intertwined narratives of many generations playing through the same script are very hard to keep straight, and I ended up needing a diagram to remember if Frank was Nell's husband or Alice's and how exactly Edmund was related to Bunty and who exactly Betty was, again? I get the parallels Atkinson is trying to draw, but they work better when she gives the characters enough individuality that the reader can keep them straight.
The true redeeming aspect of the novel is Ruby -- the protagonist. Her thoughts are vivid, full of metaphor and symbolism and yet relatable. The book truly shines in Ruby's nightmares -- inchoate end of the world fantasies, in which the familiar twists with a certainty of catastrophe -- and the way in which they mature with Ruby. These nightmares reflect the heart of Atkinson's narrative -- the way in which the families are both familiar and yet ill-meaning, self-involved and chaotic, which she does equally skillfully. ( )