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  ) Elizabeth_Blondin | May 17, 2022 |  ( ) porte01 | Jan 25, 2021 | I still have 100 pages left, but I can't contain myself any longer. I loved this book until a little after the halfway mark where the whole thing started to fall apart. The sensitivity and care shown towards the subject of an intersex person are completely destroyed by the author's sensational use of a biological impossibility on the main character. Why throw in a horrible urban legend instead of featuring the real issues and concerns an intersex person is faced with daily? I also can't help but feel that the story itself would have been much more interesting if it had involved Annabel's coming to terms with the male/female duality of her nature, not merely focusing on the feminine half she had been denied. And don't even get me started on the heavy-handed symbolism of Annabel's friend, the girl who "lost her voice," or the rape scene haphazardly thrown in seemingly for the hell of it. In other words, don't even bother reading this one. End of rant. (  ) bugaboo_4 | Jan 3, 2021 | 28 avr. 2012 ... Comme son titre l'indique, Annabel de Kathleen Winter suit le destin de... Wayne. Parce que Wayne est aussi Annabel. Il porte les deux sexes. Hermaphrodite, disait-on alors. Intersexué, dit-on aujourd'hui. Mais Annabel n'est pas une étude de cas. C'est un roman magnifique sur la différence. ____________________ Annabel, de Kathleen Winter (traduction de Claudine Vivier), Boréal, 466 pages. Joop-le-philosophe | Dec 19, 2018 | ) Rdra1962 | Aug 1, 2018 |
 Read it because it’s a story told with sensitivity to language that compels to the last page, and read it because it asks the most existential of questions. Stripped of the trappings of gender, [Kathleen] Winter asks, what are we? --The Globe & Mail, June 25, 2010 But can someone of two genders really find acceptance—even self-acceptance? Kathleen Winter explores that question in her utterly original debut novel, Annabel.  Annabel’s strength lies in probing the dilemma of sexuality and self-knowledge. I have never read such an intimate portrait of a person struggling to live inside a self that the world sees as a dreadful mistake. Born with the capacity to be both male and female, Wayne must become one and lose the other. His parents, too, must embrace a son and lose a daughter. In the end Wayne/Annabel’s mysterious, unachieved duality shimmers beside the streams of his birthplace like the mythical white caribou, while he has gone on to a compromised but acceptable existence elsewhere. Finely observed detail and gut-wrenching honesty, together with some rich characters and a perfectly rendered world, make Annabel a rare treat, and [Kathleen] Winter a welcome new voice in Canadian writing. -- Winnipeg Free Press, June 26, 2010 PriserPrestigefyllda urvalUppmärksammade listor
Born a boy and a girl but raised as a boy, Wayne or "Annabel" struggles with his identity growing up in a small Canadian town and seeks freedom by moving to the city. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
Deltog i LibraryThing FörhandsrecensenterKathleen Winters bok Annabel delades ut via LibraryThing Early Reviewers.  Pågående diskussionerIngen/ingaPopulära omslag
 Google Books — Laddar...GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Klassifikation enligt LCBetygMedelbetyg: (3.97)
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