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Laddar... Saul and Patsy (urspr publ 2003; utgåvan 2005)av Charles Baxter
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Een jonge joodse leraar en zijn vrouw worden in het Amerikaanse Midden-Westen opgezadeld met een labiele 16-jarige leerling die in de man een vaderfiguur ziet ( ) Saul reminded me of someone I knew who, while interesting, was hard to stand talking to. I guess a lot of the story came out that way to me- semi-philosophical wandering musings that didn't get to the point and just tell the story or give answers. The ending, specifically that last chapter, seemed like it was trying to prove a point or give a message, but it bothered me. The story was already over- why stick that on? Maybe, as a mom to an 18 month old, I'm too worn out to deal with it, but what I want right now is a story that takes me quickly and doesn't come across as attempting a great metaphor. Saul and Patsy move from the city to a small town in Michigan, where Saul teaches high school and Patsy works as a bank teller. The book tells their story, including ups and downs and at least one shocking event. None of the characters are very likable, many events are dubiously portrayed (lacking the feel of authenticity) and the book seems disjointed and dated in parts. All of that said, there was some really excellent prose and interesting insights from the author. I was not entirely satisfied with the book, but it did generate a long discussion with my book group, so it must have had some substance, even if it wasn't substance I particularly enjoyed. The writing was fine but the story was non-existent and weird. I wanted to like Saul and Patsy but they just weren't that interesting or appealing. Maybe the author's point was that there isn't a meaning to life, but if so, it doesn't make for very good reading. Oh, and what 15 month old is just learning to pull herself up? or is just starting to eat solid food (apart from children with delays, which this one wasn't)? Although the first hundred pages had me evocatively remembering summer '09 (for reasons I can't quite quantify, although I tried to in the big review), the last two-thirds go to something simply good. It's the Midwest, it's the story of a couple and their building of a family - what more could it really be? We've all read so many stories like this, what makes this one different? The thing that makes this one different is the character of Gordy, who only appears for a short while but impacts the rest of the story in a way that I wish... well, I wish Baxter had really taken that plot to its full extension. Instead, there's an attempt to be [b:Stoner|166997|Stoner|John Williams|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1320600716s/166997.jpg|1559207] or something like it in the capturing of small-town life... but it's less interesting than it could've been. Still, Baxter has a way with prose and it was an enjoyable lite read. Thanks, as always, to The Biblioracle over at The Morning News. More on the book at RB: http://wp.me/pGVzJ-ph inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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Five Oaks, Michigan is not exactly where Saul and Patsy meant to end up. Both from the East Coast, they met in college, fell in love, and settled down to married life in the Midwest. Saul is Jewish and a compulsively inventive worrier; Patsy is gentile and cheerfully pragmatic. On Saul’s initiative (and to his continual dismay) they have moved to this small town–a place so devoid of irony as to be virtually “a museum of earlier American feelings”–where he has taken a job teaching high school. Soon this brainy and guiltily happy couple will find children have become a part of their lives, first their own baby daughter and then an unloved, unlovable boy named Gordy Himmelman. It is Gordy who will throw Saul and Patsy’s lives into disarray with an inscrutable act of violence. As timely as a news flash yet informed by an immemorial understanding of human character, Saul and Patsy is a genuine miracle. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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