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Here we are von Graham Swift
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Here we are (Original 2020; 2020. Auflage)

von Graham Swift

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"It's the summer of 1959, and something magical can be witnessed at the end of the pier in beach town Brighton, England. Jack Robbins, Ronnie Deane, and Evie White are performing in a seaside variety show, starring as Jack Robinson the compere comedian, and The Great Pablo and Eve: a magic act. By the end of the summer, Evie's glinting engagement ring will be flung to the bottom of the ocean and one of the trifecta will vanish forever. All three friends begin their path toward the end of Brighton's pier early in life. Evie and Jack's mothers always trumpeting the support that is trademark of stage mothers, while Ronnie's mother sends her son out in the child evacuations to Penny and Eric Lawrence for safety from the London blitz. It's within the safety and love of Evergrene, the Lawrences' estate, that magic creeps into Ronnie's life for the first time and starts the intricate intertwining of fate, chance, and show business. Magic and reality share the stage in this masterly and devastating story that pulls back the curtain on the power of love, family, and the touchstones of our memories"--… (mehr)
Mitglied:VivienneR
Titel:Here we are
Autoren:Graham Swift
Info:London : Scribner UK, 2020.
Sammlungen:Deine Bibliothek, Books Read, Read 2021 (inactive)
Bewertung:****1/2
Tags:British fiction, Brighton, Magic, Theatre, 1959, Read 2021

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Here We Are von Graham Swift (2020)

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Somehow this book just completely failed to make any sort of impression on me at all. It follows three people who are in show business as magicians in the 1950s, and flashes back to their childhoods and forward to their old age. The main character was an evacuee in WWII as a child, and was sent to live in an idyllic home where his host family taught him to be a stage magician. He later recruits a couple to join his act, and the relationship between the three of them gets complicated.

I think the book was fine? The characters were reasonably interesting and well-developed? The writing was pretty good? I dunno... I don't really have any complaints about the book, but I don't really have any praise for it either. ( )
  Gwendydd | Oct 22, 2023 |
Graham Swift’s latest novel is Here We Are (Virago), set in the late Fifties and early Sixties and in which three end of pier performers find their off-stage lives entwined in complex ways as a result of their evolving circumstances. Swift skilfully moves us backwards and forwards in time while building our emotional connection with the characters. It’s a simple story at its heart but layered with complexity and as much magic as the illusion acts that are portrayed on the stage. Not following the recent trend from his peers of the doorstep, life-story tomes, it’s a slim, perfectly formed novel which belies the amount and quality of its ingredients along with their expert combination and smooth, clever, and easily digested result. ( )
  davidroche | Jan 12, 2023 |
Graham Swift is op zijn 70ste nog altijd één van de beste Engelse schrijvers van het moment. Zeker op compositorisch vlak is hij onevenaarbaar. Dit boek is misschien niet zijn beste (voor mij zijn dat nog altijd ‘Waterland’ en ‘Mother Sunday’) maar ook met dit verhaal weet Swift te imponeren. Op zich is het niet zo spectaculair, uiteindelijk draait het om een koppel dat even, in 1959 schitterde met een goochel-act op de pier van Brighton. Maar Swift verweeft het magnifiek met het thema van de illusie van de liefde. De aanloop van het verhaal is vrij traag, maar zeker voorbij de helft voert hij het tempo danig op naar een ontknoping die pas op het einde de dubbele bodem in de titel van het boek ‘here we are’ blootlegt. Knap gedaan. Zeker ook omdat Swift weer enkele stilistische hoogstandjes opvoert, zoals de scene waarin de 75-jarige Evie ’s ochtends haar tuin in het herfstig zonlicht ziet baden en de talloze fijnmazige, zilveren spinnenwebben aan haar struiken ziet hangen. Wat een prachtig beeld, dat de auteur zelfs met een erg aangrijpende, existentiële ervaring verbindt. ( )
  bookomaniac | Mar 5, 2022 |
Well-written. Swift as ever in the shadows. Reminds me of a short story of his where the magician folds himself into himself until he disappears. So is this the re-working of a short story? Certainly feels like a short story. ( )
  adrianburke | May 14, 2021 |
Disappointing. ( )
  c_why | Mar 25, 2021 |
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"It's the summer of 1959, and something magical can be witnessed at the end of the pier in beach town Brighton, England. Jack Robbins, Ronnie Deane, and Evie White are performing in a seaside variety show, starring as Jack Robinson the compere comedian, and The Great Pablo and Eve: a magic act. By the end of the summer, Evie's glinting engagement ring will be flung to the bottom of the ocean and one of the trifecta will vanish forever. All three friends begin their path toward the end of Brighton's pier early in life. Evie and Jack's mothers always trumpeting the support that is trademark of stage mothers, while Ronnie's mother sends her son out in the child evacuations to Penny and Eric Lawrence for safety from the London blitz. It's within the safety and love of Evergrene, the Lawrences' estate, that magic creeps into Ronnie's life for the first time and starts the intricate intertwining of fate, chance, and show business. Magic and reality share the stage in this masterly and devastating story that pulls back the curtain on the power of love, family, and the touchstones of our memories"--

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