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Lädt ... Dark Places (1994)von Kate Grenville
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Dark Places is the story of Albion Gridley Singer, the father of Lillian, the eccentric woman in Grenville's Lillian's Story, her 1985 debut novel*. If you have read that novel (or seen the movie starring Toni Colette), you might wonder why one would want to read, much less write about such a man. The book begins when Albion is a boy being shaped by his own family and the society and culture of the time. Albion is an insecure boy who seems clumsy in navigating the world around him. Within him is an empty, gnawing place that cannot be filled. He craves the love and approval of his father, but is unsatisfied. As he grows older he finds ways to cover his failings and we watch as he develops a deep resentment against women. When his father dies, Albion takes over the successful stationary business, marries, and becomes "a family man" but, despite appearances, we never forget the gaping emptiness in Albion and how it manifests itself with controlled and sadistic cruelty or outright abuse as the story races towards its denouement. Kate Grenville has wonderfully recreated a Victorian world that moves and changes into the 20th century. And with it she creates the social mores and atmosphere, the privileges and powers, and the regimented gender roles that will help shape the dark soul of of this man, so richly imagined by Grenville. The evolution of Albion Gridley Singer is as mesmerizing as it is disturbing. *despite the fact that chronologically, Lillian's Story is a sequel to this book, it was written years prior and, imo, should be read first. First posted elsewhere on LT, 3/2010 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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Winner of the Vance Palmer Award for Fiction, Victorian Premier's Literary Prize, 1995. Albion Gidley Singer creates his world as a vast collection of facts-facts he uses to support his own power and status. After an awkward childhood, aware that he is a disappointment to his father, he acquires, the trappings of respectability-success in business, a family. But beneath his comically grand exterior, Albion's soul remains a dark place of fear and loathing, driving him to terrifying deeds. Kate Grenville, author of the award-winning The Secret River, takes us inside the mind of one of her most powerful creations: a man who can persuade himself that he has the right, perhaps even the duty, to conquer and subdue the mocking flesh of any woman. Even his daughter Lilian...the unforgettable character Grenville introduced in her brilliant debut Lilian's Story. 'A ventriloqual tour de force of the darkness at the heart of man.' Sydney Morning Herald Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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