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Laddar... Blackbird House (urspr publ 2004; utgåvan 2004)av Alice Hoffman (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. This is a collection of vignettes, spanning two-plus centuries, all set in the same house / farm on the tip of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. beginning when the area was still a British colony and ending in the early 21st century. There is something magical about the property, starting with the snow-white blackbird whose appearance frequently portends disaster. Still, couples make it a home, start their families, till the soil, pick the fruit, make pies, and jam. And each family is changed by their time at Blackbird House. I found these stories enchanting and mesmerizing, though I’m hard pressed to say what exactly it was about them that so charmed me. Maybe that is the magic of Hoffman’s storytelling. Alice Hoffman has long been one of my favorite authors, but I'm afraid this collection fell short for me. As gorgeous as Hoffman's language is--and it is worth falling into in this collection, just as it always is--the stories here didn't, for the most part, pull me in or make me glad to have picked up the book. My favorite stories were the first and the last, and although I suppose the (tenuous) thread connecting all of these stories was meant to provide some additional elevation to the work, the overwhelming feeling I got from the collection was one of despair and struggle. The drama was tough to wade through, to be honest, because without the depth Hoffman normally brings to her characters, the stories relied on plot and theme to pull a reader a long, and there just wasn't enough nuance or tension to anything but the language for that. As ever, Hoffman's characters and language are brilliant, but I think what I so love about her work is lost when it comes to short-form writing. I'm still a devoted fan, but I may skip any other short story collections she produces. This collection of interconnected stories all take place in a house on Blackbird Hill. In Alice Hoffman's mystical style, a blackbird turns white, a widow wears red in mourning until you can't tell "her insides from her outsides," and real boys seem like ghosts while ghosts are mistaken for real boys. The multigenerational time span allows Hoffman to showcase her usual themes of love and loss on the great wheel of life. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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HTML: With "incantatory prose" that "sweeps over the reader like a dream" (Philadelphia Inquirer), Hoffman follows her celebrated bestseller The Probable Future with an evocative work that traces the lives of the various occupants of an old Massachusetts house over a span of two hundred years. In a rare and gorgeous departure, beloved novelist Alice Hoffman weaves a web of tales, all set in Blackbird House. This small farm on the outer reaches of Cape Cod is a place that is as bewitching and alive as the characters we meet: Violet, a brilliant girl who is in love with books and with a man destined to betray her; Lysander Wynn, attacked by a halibut as big as a horse, certain that his life is ruined until a boarder wearing red boots arrives to change everything; Maya Cooper, who does not understand the true meaning of the love between her mother and father until it is nearly too late. From the time of the British occupation of Massachusetts to our own modern world, family after family's lives are inexorably changed, not only by the people they love but by the lives they lead inside Blackbird House. These interconnected narratives are as intelligent as they are haunting, as luminous as they are unusual. Inside Blackbird House more than a dozen men and women learn how love transforms us and how it is the one lasting element in our lives. The past both dissipates and remains contained inside the rooms of Blackbird House, where there are terrible secrets, inspired beauty, and, above all else, a spirit of coming home. From the writer that Time has said tells "truths powerful enough to break a reader's heart" comes a glorious travelogue through time and fate, through loss and love and survival. Welcome to Blackbird House. .Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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