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Indlæser... Daphne (2008)af Justine Picardie
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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. Thought this would be a lot more interesting than it was. I was bored ... and am surprised I actually finished it. ( ) Having always been a great fan of Du Maurier's books and knowing a little about her life, I found this book a fascinating read. I loved it as much for what I did not know as for the chance to revisit what I already did. The three stories (four if you want to give a nod to Branwell), which weave between the present day and the 1959-60 era, are well told. My main reaction to this novel, though, was to yearn for a reread of both Rebecca and the Bronte novels. I can’t pretend to be disappointed by this one… I bought Justine Picardie’s Daphne so long ago that I had forgotten all about it, and indeed only took it off the shelf because the P shelf was at capacity and I thought that if I read it (404 pages) it would make room for at least two more books. But I was expecting it to be better than it was. I must have bought it because it’s a reimagining of the latter years of Daphne du Maurier (tick) when she was writing a biography of Branwell Brontë (tick) tied together by a PhD student researching du Maurier and the Brontës (tick). Three different eras linked together by literary figures, a kind of literary pilgrimage on the page (tick). Well, it could have worked a whole lot better than it did. But it is an awful muddle, endlessly repetitive and much too long for itself. To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2016/09/14/daphne-by-justine-picardie/ Okay, I'll admit up front that "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier is one of my favorite books as well as most of the books by the Bronte sisters. So a work of fiction that incorporates du Maurier and the Brontes is going to have to screw up pretty badly for me to not like it. This one didn't. It's really three stories in one--du Maurier's story beginning in 1957 as her marriage begins to unravel and she become obsessed with writing a book on Branwell Bronte; the story of Alex Syminton, a former librarian and curator of Bronte collections, as he develops a relationship with du Maurier in his twilight years; and the story of a young woman whose life is very similar to that of the second Mrs. de Winter in "Rebecca." Occasionally du Maurier's story became repetitive and overwrought, but on the whole it was well researched and well written. The story of the young woman started out so much like "Rebecca" that I wondered why the author had bothered but as the story developed, it became it's own story. Okay, I'll admit up front that "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier is one of my favorite books as well as most of the books by the Bronte sisters. So a work of fiction that incorporates du Maurier and the Brontes is going to have to screw up pretty badly for me to not like it. This one didn't. It's really three stories in one--du Maurier's story beginning in 1957 as her marriage begins to unravel and she become obsessed with writing a book on Branwell Bronte; the story of Alex Syminton, a former librarian and curator of Bronte collections, as he develops a relationship with du Maurier in his twilight years; and the story of a young woman whose life is very similar to that of the second Mrs. de Winter in "Rebecca." Occasionally du Maurier's story became repetitive and overwrought, but on the whole it was well researched and well written. The story of the young woman started out so much like "Rebecca" that I wondered why the author had bothered but as the story developed, it became it's own story. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
It is 1957, the author Daphne du Maurier, beautiful and famous, despairs as her marriage falls apart. Restlessly roaming through Menabilly, her remote mansion by the sea in Cornwall, she is haunted by regret and by her own creations - especially Rebecca, the heroine of her most famous novel. Seeking distraction from her misery, Daphne becomes passionately interested in Branwell, the reprobate brother of the Bronte sisters, and begins a correspondence with the enigmatic scholar Alex Symington as she researches a biography. But behind Symington's respectable surface is a slippery character with much to hide, and soon truth and fiction have become indistinguishable. In present-day London, a lonely young woman, newly married after a fleeting courtship with a man considerably older than her, struggles with her Ph.D. thesis on du Maurier and the Brontes. Her husband, still seemingly in thrall to his brilliant, charismatic first wife, is frequently distant and mysterious, and she can't find a way to make the large, imposing house in Hampstead feel like her own. Retreating instead into the comfort of her library, she becomes absorbed in a fifty-year-old literary mystery. The last untold Bronte story, Daphne is a tale of obsession and possession, of stolen manuscripts and forged signatures, of love lost and love found; a tantalizing literary mystery that takes its reader into the heart of Daphne du Maurier's world. No library descriptions found. |
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