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Lädt ... Die Hutmacherin (2001)von Sarah Stonich
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"These Granite Islands is an arresting novel about a woman who, on her deathbed, recalls the haunting and fateful summer of 1936, a summer that forever changed her life. Sarah Stonich's debut novel, set on the Iron Range of Minnesota, is an intimate and gripping story of a friendship, a portrait of marriage, and a meditation on the tragedy of loss. "-- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Unlike The Divide, this book was a real downer.
An underlying "theme" of being "skinned alive" is truly unwelcome.
The main character, Isobel, betrays her religion, her family, and her community in her pathetic efforts
to hold on to her one friendship by acting as a lookout while her friend takes a lover.
(truly a great friend who once outed a young man...)
Only the minor characters may draw readers in: Isobel's husband, Victor, her son, Thomas,
her friend's husband, Liam, and her daughter, Louisa. Yet these are thinly drawn.
Though plot is readable, too much is weak = not simply telling her husband of her fear of water,
Jack Reese coming across when Isobel met him as too-too perfect,
thinking it's okay to cheat and to protect cheaters when her character previously appeared much stronger,
improbable to believe she never tired of sitting for hours in a boat rather than returning to her shop,
home, and family.
As well, leaving the envelope unopened at the end was a real cop-out. ( )