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Laddar... The Darkness of Wallis Simpson (2005)av Rose Tremain
  
Ingen/inga Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken.  Helenliz | May 7, 2019 |   It's quite a grim tale of Wallis Simpson's last years, where she is obviously dementing and there is some strange person/carer/jailer who is looking after her and who keeps pressing her to remember details of her life with her third husband, which are long gone. Instead, Wallis reviews all odd snippets from other parts of her early life and marriages and you get an idea of where she came from and influences that may have created the person that she became. Although certain things may try to make the reader gain sympathy for her, and indeed nobody would wish an end-of-life story like this on anyone, I'm afraid my opinion of Wallis Simpson really hasn't changed from the one I had before reading this short story, though her ending, which apparently did happen like this, was quite sad. (  ) quiBee | Jan 21, 2016 | http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/8202340/Wallis-Simpson-Just-who-di... Since she and her husband, the King Edward VIII who abdicated for her (the only king to have ever abdicated by his own free will in the UK) were best mates with Hitler and Edward was to be restored as (the puppet) king when Hitler rolled in triumphant to the defeated UK, I think the whole entire world got served best by his abdication. She was just a money-hungry adventurer, and the entire mystery lies in what this plain woman had that attracted so many men, so much money and created so much scandal. ( ) Petra.Xs | Apr 2, 2013 |  ) bhowell | Feb 15, 2009 |  ) mgaulding | Mar 27, 2008 | inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
"Wallis Simpson, the twice-divorced American woman for whom Edward Vlll abdicated in 1936, ended her life (as the Duchess of Windsor) as the prisoner of her lawyer who would not allow anyone - friend, foe or journalist - to visit her in her Paris flat. Rose Tremain takes this true story and transforms it into an imaginative and ironic fiction. Her thesis is that Wallis, gaga and bed-ridden, has forgotten the king who gave up an empire for love of her. This superb story plays with the selectiveness of memory: why does Wallis recall the seemingly unimportant, while forgetting the glory days of her notoriety? She can remember her first two husbands - one a bit of a brute, the other very boring - but not the world-famous third one. The other stories in this magnificent collection range over a variety of themes, equally original and unexpected. An East German border guard, redundant after the Berlin Wall comes down in 1989, imagines that he might still have a purpose in life: he tries to reach Russia by bicycling across the hostile wastes of Poland. A jilted man gets his revenge. A baby grows wings. A character in an Impressionist painting escapes from his 'frame' - or does he? And th Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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The stpries were narrated by a variety of people and in some cases, the accents were approaching a parody that felt unecessary.
It's a good read, but I think that reading it all at once it could become rather opressive. (