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Lädt ... Bridge of Sighs (Original 2007; 2007. Auflage)von Richard Russo (Autor)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. This is an "almost" book. The writing is almost good. The characters are almost believable. Their motivations almost make sense. Unfortunately "almost" doesn't cut it and again, I've just slogged through another disappointment. So much for getting recommendations from book store employees you don't know... ( ) Bridge Of Sighs contains several richly drawn and extremely complex characters raised in a small upstate New York Town. And while all of the characters are fascinating in their own way, Bridge Of Sighs is in its essence, a story of the love triangle between Lou, Bobby & Sarah. It's told mostly from the point of view of Lou, but Bobby & Sarah also have large chunks in which they are the central focus. And in my mind, this may have been the only draw back of the novel. It made the work feel somewhat uneven. And in a sense Sarah being the women both men loved, may have been more central to the story than Lou himself. In any case, a thoroughly enjoyable read. Lou C. Lynch, «Lucy» lleva toda su vida preguntándose por qué Noona, su mejor amigo, se escapó a Venecia para no volver jamás. Ahora, a sus sesenta años, con una vida tranquila y a punto de jubilarse, está decidido a saber que pasó y emprende un largo viaje que le llevará a encontrar respuestas y a descubrir la fragilidad de sus propias convicciones y, tal vez, de su propia vida.
Russo schrijft bij vlagen virtuoos, over de veranderingen in het stadje vooral wanneer de belangrijkste industrie, een vervuilende looierij, failliet is en de werkloosheid toeslaat. Over de raciale verhoudingen binnen het stadje. Over de dreiging die binnen en buiten het gezin Marconi van de vader uitgaat, met wie zoon Bobby een essentieel conflict uitvecht. Het leest prettig, maar beklijft te weinig om een hoogtepunt te worden in Russo’s oeuvre. As a study of small-town life and the endless chain of relationships that lies at its core, this is beautifully done. (...) As a novel of late-20th-century America it achieves its effects through a deliberate obliquity. This is particularly evident in its treatment of race. (...) Not everything in the novel wholly convinces. The Venetian scenes, taking in modern-era Bobby's erratic love-life and his relationship with art-dealing Hugh, are too sporadic to engage, to the point where the reader wonders whether Russo has begun to lose interest in him. Bridge of Sighs is full of these moments of half-occluded revelation, understanding that is compromised by lack of information, nervy compromises between the lives its characters want and the things they finally obtain. If modern American life and the fiction that rises from it are really only a series of balancing acts, then Richard Russo is one of the most accomplished tightrope-walkers on the block. Ist enthalten inAuszeichnungenPrestigeträchtige AuswahlenBemerkenswerte Listen
Six years after the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning Empire Falls, Richard Russo returns with a novel that expands even further his widely heralded achievement. Louis Charles ("Lucy") Lynch has spent all his sixty years in upstate Thomaston, New York, married to the same woman, Sarah, for forty of them, their son now a grown man. Like his late, beloved father, Lucy is an optimist, though he's had plenty of reasons not to be -- chief among them his mother, still indomitably alive. Yet it was her shrewdness, combined with that Lynch optimism, that had propelled them years ago to the right side of the tracks and created an "empire" of convenience stores about to be passed on to the next generation. Lucy and Sarah are also preparing for a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Italy, where his oldest friend, a renowned painter, has exiled himself far from anything they'd known in childhood. In fact, the exact nature of their friendship is one of the many mysteries Lucy hopes to untangle in the "history" he's writing of his hometown and family. And with his story interspersed with that of Noonan, the native son who'd fled so long ago, the destinies building up around both of them (and Sarah, too) are relentless, constantly surprising, and utterly revealing. BRIDGE OF SIGHS is classic Russo, coursing with small-town rhythms and the claims of family, yet it is brilliantly enlarged by an expatriate whose motivations and experiences -- often contrary, sometimes not -- prove every bit as mesmerizing as they resonate through these richly different lives. Here is a town, as well as a world, defined by magnificent and nearly devastating contradictions. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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