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Lädt ... Sommer der Züge (1998)von Stewart O'Nan
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 Was fesselt den Leser an diesem einfachen Roman ohne erzählerische Raffinesse. Stewart O´Nan ist ein Meister der Beobachtung und des Details. Durch die Art, wie er jede Situation, jeden Gedanken ausleuchtet, entstehen neue Perspektiven. Die Menschen, die er vorstellt, sind allesamt durch den Alltag beschädigt. Sie wirken in ihrer Hilflosigkeit jedoch nicht lächerlich, sondern mitleiderregend. Die Erzählung durchzieht ein trauriger Grundton, Wehmut wohl darüber, daß schon das normale Leben so kompliziert zu sein scheint, daß es Menschen in Verzweiflung und Depression stürzt. Und besteht Hoffnung, daß im Alltag zugefügte Wunden verheilen können, wie das Ende andeutet. Die melancholische Grundstimmung, die den Roman durchzieht, löst sich teilweise auf, aber eben nur teilweise, denn der Krieg überlagert den Alltag, und ohne die Problematik des Alltäglichen zu bagatellisieren, wird unmißverständlich klar: der Krieg hat nichts Normales und Banales, der Tod, den er bringt, kann niemals human sein oder gar Versöhnung stiften.
Fiction.
Literature.
HTML: A major novel by the award-winning author named by Granta as one of America's best young writers. Set at a remote beachfront cottage in the Hamptons one summer during the Second World War, A World Away follows the fortunes of the Langer family, whose oldest son, Rennie, is missing in action in the Pacific theater. As we are soon aware, there is another battle raging at the same time, this one on the domestic front, as Anne and James Langer's marriage begins to unravel. In part to repay her husband for his affair with a student, Anne begins a clandestine romance with a soldier stationed at a nearby base. Yet all the passion and tenderness she finds with her lover is unable to ease Anne's empty ache from having her family torn apart. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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 Google Books — Lädt ...GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Klassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt: (3.63)
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The primary place is a small town on Long Island in the summer of 1943, with frequent flashbacks to rural Vermont and upstate New York. The characters are the Langer family: James, a teacher; his wife, Anne, a nurse; their sons, 12 year-old Jay, and Rennie, a conscientious objector turned Army medic (and his young pregnant wife, Dorothy). O'Nan's omniscient narrator shifts skillfully between these five people, getting inside their heads and hearts, as the war rages on, a world away. Rennie ships out for the Pacific, ending up in the battle for Attu, in the Aleutians. The family's story is something of a potboiler, sans any false sentiment. There is adultery, there is heartbreak, anger, betrayals and forgiveness, birth and death. As the family gathers at the home of James's aging father in the Hamptons, who has suffered a stroke, young Jay is plagued by puppy love and nightmares, but finds a friend, while his parents fumble their way back to being a family, waiting for word of Rennie, who is MIA.
I found Rennie's role in the Aleutian campaign especially interesting, bringing to mind other books on that obscure part of the war which I've enjoyed - Charles Bradley's lovely memoir, ALEUTIAN ECHOES, Brian Payton's more recent novel, THE WIND IS NOT A RIVER, and Gore Vidal's nearly forgotten debut novel, WILLIWAW. O'Nan has obviously done his homework here.
I think I usually end up describing O'Nan's books as simply beautiful. Well, this one too - beautifully done. Simply beautiful. A book to linger over and savor. Loved it.
- Tim Bazzett, author of the memoir, BOOKLOVER (