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Laddar... The Seas (2004)av Samantha Hunt
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The first chapter knocked my socks off. I couldn't wait to dive into this weird world! Unfortunately, lust overwhelmed the story. While I'm glad I kept with it and read to the end, and there were many surprising turns and interesting moments, I wouldn't say that overall I really *liked* it which was disappointing after the first chapter. Potential Spoiler? The main character's desire for an adult/minor relationship really bothered me. For most of the novel, she is 19 and he is 33 or so, which is actually less than the difference in ages in "Just Like You" where the age difference didn't bother me. The difference is: 1) the characters met and started a friendship when she was less than 15 and 2) the descriptions of lust outweighed much else of the character's thoughts/feelings. Unfortunately, this drowned much of the magic for me. A beautifully layered, intricately textured, and poetic novel about trauma and the forms that it takes. The Seas tackles subjects as diverse as war, abandonment, suicide, alcoholism, love, fear, and loneliness and yet unites them lovingly and gently. It is, in turns, hopeful and fraught, tender and strong, exquisite and appalling. As much as I adore reading, it's rare that I'm moved or surprised; this novel did just that. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
Fantasy.
Fiction.
Literature.
Moored in a coastal fishing town so far north that the highways only run south, the unnamed narrator of The Seas is a misfit. She's often the subject of cruel local gossip. Her father, a sailor, walked into the ocean eleven years earlier and never returned, leaving his wife and daughter to keep a forlorn vigil. Surrounded by water and beckoned by the sea, she clings to what her father once told her: that she is a mermaid. True to myth, she finds herself in hard love with a land-bound man, an Iraq War veteran thirteen years her senior. The mesmerizing, fevered coming-of-age tale that follows will land her in jail. Her otherworldly escape will become the stuff of legend. With the inventive brilliance and psychological insight that have earned her international acclaim, Samantha Hunt pulls listeners into an undertow of impossible love and intoxication, blurring the lines between reality and fairy tale, hope and delusion, sanity and madness. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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The Seas is a rare piece of fiction in American literature. It reads very familiar and European to me in its sensibilities and style. The genre boundaries are blurred, or, to be specific, magical realism is more experimental and in service of the text than an actual genre I would put this in.
This was a fresh and dark text, very emotional, but it avoided the trap of being sentimental. I loved how Hunt plays with words and text in general. As is expected with texts like this, it is a little bit pretentious at times. ( )