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Laddar... Summer Island: A Novel (utgåvan 2004)av Kristin Hannah (Författare)
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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. Romance A good story. The author’s strength is her ability to build great characters with depth. The plot progresses well, flash backs are presented smoothly to help the reader gain insight, and the ending while predictable is happy with redemption and resolution for all. We know life isn’t a perfect fairytale but these characters come full circle to find home and a meaning in life. Ruby Bridge and her mother, Nora, have been estranged since she was sixteen and her mother walked out on the family. Nora, a successful radio and newspaper advice guru, has been accused of having an affair, and she has a car accident. Ruby is offered money to write a tell-all about her mother, so she ends up at their summer home on the islands off the coast of Oregon to take care of her. Both women learn more about their missing years and how to find their way back. This book was slow at times. There are several subplots: the other daughter Caro is having her own issue, and Dean, Ruby's former love, has returned to the island to care for his brother Eric who is dying of cancer. The story felt dated also. It's hard to imagine anyone caring about an affair so long after the fact in today's world of reality tv and tabloid journalism. The romance between Ruby and Dean seemed to happen too fast since they hadn't seen each other for sixteen years. But it's a good story about healing family relationships, finding your place in the world, and growing up. The ending made me cry, so what had been a three-star gained a point. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
Ingår i förlagsserienKvinneliv (2001) Prestigefyllda urval
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HTML:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ? The author of the cherished bestseller On Mystic Lake returns with a poignant, funny, luminous novel about a mother and daughter??the complex ties that bind them, the past that separates them, and the healing that comes with forgiveness. ??[Kristin] Hannah is superb at delving into the characters' psyches and delineating nuances of feeling.???Washington Post Book World Years ago, Nora Bridge walked out on her marriage and left her daughters behind. She has since become a famous radio talk-show host and newspaper columnist beloved for her moral advice. Her youngest daughter, Ruby, is a struggling comedienne who uses her famous mother as fuel for her bitter, cynical humor. When the tabloids unearth a scandalous secret from Nora's past, their estrangement suddenly becomes dramatic: Nora is injured in an accident and a glossy magazine offers Ruby a fortune to write a tell-all about her mother. Under false pretenses, Ruby returns home to take care of the woman she hasn't spoken to for almost a decade. Nora insists they retreat to Summer Island in the San Juans, to the lovely old house on the water where Ruby grew up, a place filled with childhood memories of love and joy and belonging. There Ruby is also reunited with her first love and his brother. Once, the three of them had been best friends, inseparable. Until the summer that Nora had left and everyone's hearts had been broken. . . . What began as an expose evolves, as Ruby writes, into an exploration of her family's past. Nora is not the woman Ruby has hated all these years. Witty, wise, and vulnerable, she is desperate to reconcile with her daughter. As the magazine deadline draws near and Ruby finishes what has begun to seem to her an act of brutal betrayal, she is forced to grow up and at last to look at her mother??and herself??through the eyes of a woman. And she must, finally, allow herself to love. Summer Island is a beautiful novel, funny, tender, sad, and u Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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