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Lädt ... Mountain Timevon Ivan Doig
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Another gruff, yet lyrical Doig novel! Excellent narrator, by the way! This story winds its way through the mountains of Montana, the trails worn deep by relationships, and the tough trek that is the struggle to resolve a parent/child relationship, a love relationship, and a sibling relationship. When Ivan Doig weaves a tale, it sweeps you along into its very heart and soul! ( ) My first Doig after his passing. The story includes characters from the Montana Trilogy and does not disappoint with its depictions of the landscape of Montana, this time focusing on the Bob Marshall Wilderness in western Montana. This wasn't my favorite Doig: too many storylines, including one with Bob Marshall himself that I just didn't quite get, and too many people with problems escaping into the wilderness. Doig's humor seemed to be missing as well. At least one review mentioned "wicked humor" and "levity" so maybe it was my own late night reading that made me miss it. This could have been such a good novel. It has engaging, sympathetic characters I would have liked to have known. It's got witty banter, perhaps a bit too much, like a Garson Kanin movie. And it's got what could have been a moving story, about the efforts of a 50-year old man, wounded by his choices in career and marriage, who gets a last chance to know his estranged father as he returns, with his equally wounded and wary lover, to the mountains of Montana to help him die and try to make a peace. The story starts to crumble when he, his lover and her globetrotting photojournalist sister make a three-day trek to throw the father's ashes from a peak. The impression is that from this point on, Doig had a vague idea what he wanted to convey - he just darned didn't do it. A vaguely scripted story, given interest and likeability by the characters, and their intelligent (if forced) banter. Zeige 5 von 5 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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HTML: Set in Seattle, San Francisco, Montana, and Alaska, Mountain Time is the Story of three intense relationships: between father and son, between sisters, and between lovers. Mitch Rozier who has spent half of his fifty years writing an environmental column for an alternative west coast paper, now finds himself back under his father's roof; the sisters Lexa and Mariah McCaskill wrestle with the past that has driven them away from domesticity: Lexa has long been ready to settle down with Mitch, a photographer, uses her camera to shield herself from the world; and the figure from the generation that produced them, Mitch's father Lyle, both beguiles and exasperates as he attempts to rewrite events in his life before he leaves it. In his latest novel, Ivan Doig writes of a generation, shaped by the sixties, that has reached is time of reckoning, and of a man who must uncover the secrets of his father's past before he can live and love in the present. .Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Klassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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