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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. A haunting story of the Shane family and specifically, their women.....a tale of pride, independence, obsession, stifled passion, and secrets.....secrets like we all have......those we never share, even with those we are closest to..... yet, we are not meant to live our lives alone, that is painfully clear here. Sad, yet compelling.......i always wanted to keep reading. Was most deeply moved by the slow demise of Shane's Castle on Cypress Hill (nothing worse than witnessing the physical decline of a great home), and Lily's calm witnessing of the actual onslaught of WWI German troops into the calm French countryside from her comfortable terrace. Now for the frustrating admission on my part. Knowing nothing of this book before reading, and having done no research since finishing this book 3 minutes ago, I have to admit that i have absolutely no idea what the title means.....i do not know what a green bay tree is, nor do i recall one ever mentioned in the novel........(these are the times when i feel the most stupid......but i will push on and figure it out, i'm sure.) Not a bad book, but one assumes that Bromfield's subsequent novel, the Pulitzer Prize winning 'Early Autumn' will eclipse this. I will keep you posted! inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
.1924. Louis Bromfield attained worldwide acclaim in the 1920s as the author of Early Autumn, his third novel and winner of the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. At age 29, Bromfield was regarded as one of America's most promising young novelists, compared to the likes of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. His novels were among the first adapted for feature-length sound films. His first novel, The Green Bay Tree, begins: If you can picture a little park, bright for the moment with the flush of early summer flowers and peopled with men and women in the costumes of the late nineties-If you can picture such a park set down in the midst of an inferno of fire, steel and smoke, there is no need to describe Cypress Hill on the afternoon of the garden party for the Governor. It was a large garden, indeed quite worthy of the name park, withdrawn and shut in by high walls of arbor vitae clipped at intervals into small niches which sheltered bits of white statuary, some genuine, some of them copies. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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More on the author, he was one of the first environmentalists and wrote many agriculture books on farming and saving the soil. Both Hemmingway and Fitzgerald called him "Brommie" and said he wrote stories for their grandmothers.
Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart were married on Bromfield's farm, Malabar, in front of the piano. Today the house is a museum and the piano is still there.
This was a timelessly-themed classic and a work of superior prose. I'm only giving it 4 1/2 stars because I could not figure out the reason for the title! 352 pages ( )