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Lädt ... The Unfoldingvon A. M. Homes
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Abandoned a third of the way through. It's not that it's not well written. But an account of a group of die-hard Republicans seeking to undo (this is set in 2008-9) the 'wrong' of a black man, a Democrat being President is just too depressing a read at the moment, with the current Republican party of 2023 apparently in thrall to Trump and at risk of his being re-elected. I've just looked again to see if I should try again. Nope. Can't do it. ( ) The Unfolding, A. M. Homes, author, William Damron, narrator In this novel, the year is 2008, and the results of the election have thrown some members of the Republican Party into a state if panic and turmoil. A small group, some of whom are crude, is organized by “the big guy”. He sets about to right the sinking ship and to restore the Republican Party to power, by revitalizing the policies and values of the Founding Fathers. The means would justify the ends. They believed they were guided by their love of the country, but their need to regain the spotlight seemed to highly motivate them. They were determined to stop the country from going downhill under the leadership of Barack Hussein Obama. They could not believe that they had lost the bully pulpit. They had taken their eye off the ball. According to the book, these men worked with an “underground group that claims to have been formed around the time of Israel’s creation. Behind the scenes they set the stage to take back control, creating false rumors of socialism and pandemics, while also arranging other chaotic events. Included in the narrative are the personal trials of some of the characters. This enabled the author to insert current liberal issues like those concerning sexual preference and women’s rights. Today, we have witnessed the fruition of many of the ideas presented in this book. However, although the author seemed to be mocking and branding the Republicans as the ones capable of this treachery, a dream that would take some decade and a half to fulfill, so that in 2026, all would be “right” with the world, in actuality, it was the Democrats who have overtly committed these same acts the author ascribed to the Republicans. They have made false accusations about people and instigated the environment that has created instability and unexpected crises, throwing the world into a state of turmoil. Could the author have imagined, when she wrote the book, that the world would be spinning so far out of control? In retrospect, with a clearer, perhaps more honest eye, looking back over the last decade and a half, to Obama’s election and the changes he hoped to make and did make, it might seem obvious that the chaos and confusion was created by those on the left, as the Progressives gained more and more control of the message and began to corrupt the core values of the country regarding right and wrong, election integrity and civil rights. When the FBI, the CIA, the DOJ and the media all fell in line with them, the stage was set. Then, in light of the recent horror of October 7th, 2023, the attack on Israel, in which a massacre occurred that has not been adequately condemned by the Democrats or their members, some of whom are actively instigating and encouraging violence, supporting terrorists, the relevance of the book seemed to pale in my eyes. Perhaps the author meant it as a humorous view of politics, with its flaws, but it turned out to be prophetic. The election of 2008 actually ushered in an era of division and hate, promoted by identity politics and the left. I enjoyed this. It was very readable, smart, and rather humorous in places. But, in the same way that I was always puzzled and disturbed by the deep animus directed toward President Obama by the extreme right, I never quite understood the motivations of the core characters in this novel. Was it plain racism, a vague concern about socialism, or simply unexamined fear of change? I also found it delicious that, in an age of conspiracy theories embraced by the right, this novel describes an actual conspiracy from the right: fairly ridiculous, but also quite chilling and unsettling, and all too verisimilitudinous. Zeige 3 von 3
There can sometimes be a Franzenesque quality to Homes’s family satire — a bitter skewering of parents’ pathetic pomposity and melodrama. Charlotte’s sardonic quips sound like fermented despair. And a scene describing the Big Guy conducting war games with toy soldiers of “the highest quality” on an old pool table leaves no survivors. But Homes retains a quality of resigned sympathy with these anxious, immensely self-important characters — a tincture of compassion that makes them feel all the more piteous.
"The Big Guy loves his family, money and country. Undone by the results of the 2008 presidential election, he taps a group of like-minded men to reclaim their version of the American Dream. As they build a scheme to disturb and disrupt, the Big Guy also faces turbulence within his family. His wife, Charlotte, grieves a life not lived, while his 18-year-old daughter, Meghan, begins to realize that her favorite subject--history--is not exactly what her father taught her. In a story that is as much about the dynamics within a family as it is about the desire for those in power to remain in power, Homes presciently unpacks a dangerous rift in American identity, prompting a reconsideration of the definition of truth, freedom and democracy--and exploring the explosive consequences of what happens when the same words mean such different things to people living together under one roof"-- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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