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Lädt ... The Catch (2022. Auflage)von Alison Fairbrother (Autor)
Werk-InformationenThe Catch: A Novel von Alison Fairbrother
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. The Catch follows Ellie, a young woman having an affair with a married man and working a dead-end web journalism job, on her quest to find out why her father left her a tie rack instead of his lucky baseball in his will. Its an intriguing premise, but unfortunately none of the characters really come to life in a way that would give this story some emotional heft. Instead, you're left thinking the dead dad is kind of a jerk...and so is the main character. Surprisingly, I kept reading to 59%. Ellie is a typical, socialist, clueless college graduate. Men are bad. White people are bad. Wealthy people don't deserve to have more than others (never mind that they or their forebears worked for it). Obviously climate change is totally real and the earth will disintegrate before your children or grandchildren can take over. But there is an inherent naive sweetness to her, so I kept reading. Plus, I thought maybe she'd learn some things, which she started to. I had a bad feeling, though, when Ellie looked through her dead dad's high school yearbook. Ellie identifies the person she believes to be the one to whom her dad's beloved baseball is bequeathed. Ellie details a bit how good looking the man is. Ruh roh, as Scooby would say. I didn't like where this might be going. And, lo and behold, said man, Larry, tersely walks away from Ellie mentioning that his husband is waiting for him. Every time this book came to the top of the pile I ignored it for something else. Something told me I wasn’t going to be over the moon and unfortunately my premonition was valid. I didn’t find the protagonist, Eleanor Adler sympathetic. Her love and devotion to her father was not only admirable but the crux of this story. Her attempt to understand his ultimate betrayal is going to prove to be a heartbreaking journey to revelation and understanding. Be careful of what you seek. Be careful and cognizant of those you place on a pedestal without having all the pertinent background information. Be careful when you selectively parse the available information to spin the story to fit your delusions. Be careful when you seek answers for your edification alone without considering the collateral damage that you may cause. Be careful when you base a story on bequests that include records, pictures, a tie rack and a baseball. Losing a beloved parent is understandably an earth shaking loss from which recovery is a daily struggle. Facing our mortality and making sure those we leave behind never have to question our love and commitment is so important and so missing from this story. Coming of age, acknowledging love, loss, confusion and misinterpretation wasn’t enough to save this story for me. Thank you Random House and NetGalley for a copy. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
"Twentysomething Ellie thought she was her father's favorite child; she was sure he would leave her his most prized possession, a baseball with which they played catch, and which sat on his desk, as a kind of inspiration: her poet father's most famous poem was called "The Catch." But when her father's will is read, his children, including from other marriages, each receive a meaningful object, except Ellie, who receives a glow-in-the-dark tie rack that she has never seen before. The baseball that inspired her father's work is left to someone with initials no one recognizes, L.M. In her grief, Ellie wonders: Who could have meant more to her father than Ellie? Might it be that mysterious woman she saw slip into the back of the church during her father's funeral? Her job at a D.C. journalism startup and her relationship with a married lover become threatened as Ellie tries to deal with her rage and grief and come to terms with the mysterious man she thought she knew. Determined to try to understand her father's life and to overcome her sense of abandonment, Ellie sets out to track down L.M. In her quest she discovers many startling things about who her father really was and comes to realize the deeper meaning of that baseball, that poem "The Catch," and the many ways life catches us unawares"-- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Ellie is living with roommates and trying to make a living as a journalist when learns of her father's death. The gathering for his will was a mess of different people from his life as he married three times. She is insulted and crestfallen when she is left a glow-in-the-dark ginger man tie rack and his beloved baseball left to a stranger! She sets out on a mission to learn who this mystery person is who inherited the baseball instead of her. She had always thought his poem, "The Catch" meaningful to her. Now, she has to wonder if the poem was about something completely different, remorse or regret possibly?
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