Auf ein Miniaturbild klicken, um zu Google Books zu gelangen.
Lädt ... Spilling Clarence (2003)von Anne Ursu
Lädt ...
Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. A forgettable book about remembering. Some of the sentences were jewels, but I can't really say what these characters gained by their experience. ( ) This is a debut novel and the setting is a small town in Minnesota. It is a book about memory. I think it could be listed as science fiction in a sense as it talks about brain and neurotransmitters. I read one review that suggested this author's style of writing is like Poisonwood Bible/Barbara Kingsolver. I can see the effort to make words themselves of interest but Kingsolver is really good at it and I thought Ursu was "straining" too much. This is not one of my fav Many thanks to Terri Loeffler for this recommendation! When small town Clarence, Minnesota experiences a chemical explosion from the manufacturer of a mind altering, anti depressant, the pharmaceutical factory isn't the only thing that melts down. Systematically the town folk are bombarded with images from their past. While some memories are positive, the majority of Clarence experiences thoughts and obsessions regarding mistakes they made. A turn meant for the right becomes the left with tragic results. A marriage to a non-love of a life causes an elderly woman to ruminate about choices that could have/should have been made. As an external air of complacency renders the town dormant, internally the brains of he residents are working over time. The author's fascinating work examines the definition of memory, ie how "real" are the events we remember. Is forgetting the best defensive mechanism the mind holds? Highly recommended. A pharmaceutical plant suffers some sort of atmospheric leak, spreading a drug out into the atmosphere. It causes intense memory in the people of Clarence. The premise seemed intriguing, but the characters are flat (and kind of morose in that way typical of literary fiction) and nothing really happens. People feel funny for a while. Later they feel better and make minor adjustments in their lives. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Auszeichnungen
What if you could suddenly remember everything that ever happened to you, every joy and every sorrow that you had ever endured? Would it be a blessing--or a curse? This is the fate of the residents of the town of Clarence, who fall under the spell of a strange and powerful drug that unlocks their memories. The past comes flooding back without the buffer of time, and the townspeople, young and old, find themselves awash in their own reminiscences--of love and death, of war and childhood, of happiness they've experienced, and sins they've committed. Beautifully rendered with a light comic touch, this bittersweet novel is about more than the sum of its beguiling parts. Spilling Clarence explores our relationship with our histories, the seductive pull of regret, the unreliability of memory, and the bliss of forgetting. A universe peopled by exquisitely drawn characters, Spilling Clarence is a moving introduction to the impressive talents of an exciting new writer. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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:
Bist das du?Werde ein LibraryThing-Autor. |