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Lädt ... Remember Me Like This: A Novel (Original 2014; 2015. Auflage)von Bret Anthony Johnston (Autor)
Werk-InformationenRemember Me Like This von Bret Anthony Johnston (2014)
   Books Read in 2015 (1,076) Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch.  Dabble58 | Nov 11, 2023 |    ) Maryjane75 | Sep 30, 2023 | TeresaBlock | Feb 14, 2023 | ) judithrs | Feb 1, 2022 |  ) kshydog | Dec 13, 2020 |
 There is one word that sums up this book for me; overwrought. The author knows his craft and can turn out good prose. The problem is that he does so about the same thing over and over again. Every emotion, every thought is described at length. It got to the point where I read the dialogue and about the first two sentences of each paragraph and skipped the rest because that was the only way I could get through this. I am familiar with this kind of writing because I attended the U of Iowa and I took classes with a lot of the Workshop writers. I read a story that got a writer into the Workshop (no easy feat). It was a 23-page story about two minutes in someone's life. Reading it was like watching a soap opera. Or watching paint dry. This book reminded me of that. For me, it's about the suspension of disbelief. I live in a book while I am reading it and I can't do that when I am annoyed and distracted by a writer's attempt to make every sentence a present wrapped up in a pretty bow at the expense of the story. As I said, the author knows how to turn out a nice phrase. I even like his characters and the story is good. But he beats the reader into submission with the sheer volume of expostulation. I really wanted to like this book, but I absolutely did not.
Fiction.
Literature.
HTML:??Enthralling . . . [an] exquisitely moral mystery of how we struggle to accept and love the people we call family.???The New York Times Book Review (Editor??s Choice) NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review ? Esquire ? BookPage A gripping novel with the pace of a thriller but the nuanced characterization and deep empathy of some of the literary canon??s most beloved novels, Remember Me Like This introduces Bret Anthony Johnston as one of the most gifted storytellers writing today. With his sophisticated and emotionally taut plot and his shimmering prose, Johnston reveals that only in caring for one another can we save ourselves. Four years have passed since Justin Campbell??s disappearance, a tragedy that rocked the small town of Southport, Texas. Did he run away? Was he kidnapped? Did he drown in the bay? As the Campbells search for answers, they struggle to hold what??s left of their family together. Then, one afternoon, the impossible happens. The police call to report that Justin has been found only miles away, in the neighboring town, and, most important, he appears to be fine. Though the reunion is a miracle, Justin??s homecoming exposes the deep rifts that have diminished his family, the wounds they all carry that may never fully heal. Trying to return to normal, his parents do their best to ease Justin back into his old life. But as thick summer heat takes hold, violent storms churn in the Gulf and in the Campbells?? hearts. When a reversal of fortune lays bare the family??s greatest fears??and offers perhaps the only hope for recovery??each of them must fight to keep the ties that bind them from permanently tearing apart. Praise for Remember Me Like This ??An achingly beautiful and psychologically insightful portrait of a family . . . [a] fully immersive novel in which the language is luminous and the delivery almost flawless.???The Boston Globe ??Riveting . . . flows like it was plotted by Dennis Lehane but feels like it was written by Jonathan Franzen.???Esquire ??Tremendously moving . . . There??s real humanity in Johnston??s writing, and it??s heartening to spend time with these folks as they relearn how to be a family.???Ron Charles, The Washington Post ??Deeply empathetic and masterfully constructed . . . a novel that has both the feel of a great ep Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
LibraryThing Early Reviewers-AutorBret Anthony Johnstons Buch Remember Me Like This wurde im Frührezensenten-Programm LibraryThing Early Reviewers angeboten.  Aktuelle DiskussionenKeineBeliebte Umschlagbilder
 Google Books — Lädt ...GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyKlassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt: (3.8)
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This story of a family torn apart as their son is kidnapped holds interest throughout - not because there is a lot of action, but more because the inner life of the characters is so well explored. The family falls apart, delicately and dramatically, they find places of contact that then seem to sever, they hide from each other and reveal only little bits at a time.
In other books, this can be annoying. You want to sit them all in a room and demand they talk to each other and stop being ridiculously secretive. But,given the setup in this story, the experience they all endure, the guilt they all feel, the secrecy seems real, and necessary for each character.
Fantastically well done and a great read. Unsettling, but there is hope at the end. (