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Lädt ... Radiant Daughter: A Novelvon Patricia Grossman
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"Grossman (Brian in Three Seasons) pursues the erratic coming-of-age of the gifted daughter of a family of second-generation Czech immigrants living outside of Chicago. ... Ultimately, Irena rallies around her daughter with a fierce maternal sympathy, offering a fragile closure to this unsentimental story of one family's gossamer dreams."
In Radiant Daughter, award-winning novelist Patricia Grossman follows a Czech-American family for twenty-seven years, beginning in suburban Chicago in 1969 and ending in Brooklyn, in seaside "Little Odessa," in 1996. Though the novel begins as a traditional assimilation story-- immigrant parents, "native" children, and the conflicts one might expect-- it evolves into a highly particular and harrowing tale surrounding the descent of Elise Blazek, the family's brightest star. Radiant Daughter is also a story of translation--between generations, from the Czech of Irena and Stepan, to the "American" of the children, and finally to the Russian that is Elise's academic specialty. Radiant Daughter explores all that is human, from the most self- destructive behavior to the highest forms of commitment and self- sacrifice. Even at her lowest moments, Irena never loses her fierce love for the daughter who has traveled so utterly beyond her reach. For Elise, the future will always be complicated: a precarious balance between periods of insight, bursts of accomplishment, and the abyss of her illness. Reminiscent, on the one hand, of the meticulously constructed mother-daughter dynamic in Carol Shields's Unless and, on the other, of the anarchic real-life experience of Big and Little Edie Beale in Grey Gardens, Grossman's moving narrative breaks new ground in exploring a dangerous turn in the complex bond between a mother and her adult child. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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