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Family Romance (2007)

av John Lanchester

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Family Romance is a beautifully written memoir in which John Lanchester joins the dots of his parents' history, their extraordinary secrets and the shape of their shared life. From his grandparents' beginnings in rural Ireland and colonial Rhodesia, Lanchester navigates through his parents' lives: his father Bill's devastating war-time separation from his parents; his mother Julia's tragic first love, her decision to become a nun and her adoption of a new identity. Lanchester illuminates their characters and Julia's motives with moving insight.… (mer)
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I've read a couple of John Lanchester's novels, but this autobiography (which I encountered when mentioned by Paul Theroux) is completely fascinating even if you've never heard of him.
Lanchester opens up with information he discovered after his mother's death....she had been a nun for a number of years before 'escaping.'.And she was ten years older than her faked records showed...
Lanchester gives a quite gripping account of her Irish upbringing; the approbation when she took orders...and the strong disapproval when she abandoned it.
He then describes his father- reserved, dutiful, plodding along in the world of banking...and his colonial upbringing.
And lastly he tells of his own life; the often tense family dynamic, full of things unsaid, which maybe contributed to a mental breakdown in adulthood. ( )
  starbox | Mar 16, 2020 |
Levensverhaal van de vader en de moeder van de schrijver. Vooral het verhaal moeder die als kloosterzuster haar jonge jaren doorbracht en dit de rest van haar leven verborgen heeft, is bijzonder mooi en aangrjjpend. ( )
  judikasp | Jul 23, 2015 |
A rather wordy story based on family history in late 1900s John Lancaster the author was born ib 1962 in england and he has done a commendible job of researching and retelling his heritage
  Annabel1954 | Apr 14, 2015 |
Well written but perhaps a bit too much of it. Feel he is looking for something, but not quite clear what. Gives a sense of how the British character seems to have changed in our lifetime, from the repressed, dutiful, obedient, conforming, to the emotionally expressive, perhaps more selfish, modern. Confluence of the poor Irish catholic stream with the English professional colonial is intriguing. The best is the detailed portrait of what it was like for his mother as a nun: the physical, mental, verbal, sartorial constraints. And how hard it was to get out. ( )
  vguy | Nov 14, 2013 |
Fiction fans often suppose that a novel’s plot reflects the writer’s life. Readers of Lanchester’s dark satire Debt to Pleasure will be relieved that this truism is not always the case, and intrigued by the relaxed tone of this engaging memoir. In lesser hands, the family secrets revealed in Family Romance, might have been presented in a more sensational style. In this treatment, the family revelations are more emotionally involving for the reader because of the restraint shown in the telling. Recommended.
  vplprl | Nov 7, 2013 |
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Lanchester has done his research and brings miserable post-independence Ireland chillingly to life.
tillagd av Nevov | ändraThe Observer, Rachel Cooke (Apr 1, 2007)
 
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Family Romance is a beautifully written memoir in which John Lanchester joins the dots of his parents' history, their extraordinary secrets and the shape of their shared life. From his grandparents' beginnings in rural Ireland and colonial Rhodesia, Lanchester navigates through his parents' lives: his father Bill's devastating war-time separation from his parents; his mother Julia's tragic first love, her decision to become a nun and her adoption of a new identity. Lanchester illuminates their characters and Julia's motives with moving insight.

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