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Indlæser... This Is My Daughter (1998)af Roxana Robinson
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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. I loved this book---I was just terribly worried when I had about 40 pages left as to how things would work out! Of course, now that I've finished it I am absolutely wishing there was more!!! The end didn't exactly leave me hanging, just in a place where I know there could be much more to the story to see what happens to these characters about whom I could practically draw in time and space. There was so much detail in their physical description and their emotional ups and downs. Just a great reading experience, very absorbing. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
A luminous, deeply affecting story of divorce, remarriage, and parenthood. Peter and Emma, two single parents who have found love again after failed first marriages, dream of a peaceful and happy blended family with each of their daughters under one roof. They navigate this treacherous territory with the best of intentions, but face resistance from the girls, who, like many children of divorce, find their relationships tinged by grief, anger, and resentment. Emma's three-year-old daughter, Tess, takes to the arrangement while Amanda, Peter's sullen and unhappy seven-year-old, views it as a disaster rather than a fresh start. Over the course of this emotional powerhouse of a novel, Amanda becomes increasingly hostile and alienated-until one night she commits an act that threatens the already fragile bonds of the fledgling family. Set on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, This Is My Daughter is a skillful and sensitive portrayal of the challenges facing modern families from master of the contemporary novel Roxana Robinson, whose acute observations of domestic life invite comparison to John Cheever and Henry James. Ingen biblioteksbeskrivelser fundet. |
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To be honest, I found reading this one a bit taxing at times, and perhaps wishing that the book wasn't quite as focused on the characters' interiors, and, finally, that it wasn't quite so long. But this approach does help the author render each of her characters with remarkable precision, which can itself be involving. As the reviewer below me noted, the book is absorbing in its own way, and it flows well for a book that's such a serious character study: Robinson moves easily and naturally from one character's meditation to another's. She's also careful to make any of these characters into a one-dimensional villain or hero: in family life, she seems to be saying, everyone hurts someone, and everyone gets hurt. In this, misunderstandings are shown to be both terribly damaging, though perhaps inevitable. "This Is My Daughter" is not exactly my style, but even so, it's recommended to those who value literary craft, those who have lots of patience with the slow dynamics of family disintegration and reintegration, and those to whom the very term "beach read" is odious. ( )