Peter Rushforth (1945–2005)
Auteur de Pinkerton's Sister
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Peter Rushforth
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1945-02-15
- Date de décès
- 2005-09-25
- Sexe
- male
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Peter Rushforth’s first novel, Kindergarten, was published in 1979 to great acclaim. Twenty-five years later he returned to thrill us all with the epic novel Pinkerton’s Sister, which was an outstanding book about the day in the life of Alice, a madwoman who lived in her wealthy family’s attic.
In 2005 Rushforth finished A Dead Language, which is the sequel to Pinkerton’s Sister. In fact, it was to be the second in a quintet but sadly, Rushforth passed away whilst walking the Yorkshire Moors with some friends. Dead Language is about Alice’s brother, Ben, and his story skips back and forth between past and present with surprising ease.
We read a bout Ben’s harrowing journey through adolescence into manhood, and how his father torments him mercilessly for being ‘as pretty as a girl’ and for blushing and being naturally musically talented.
Rushforth’s storytelling technique is extremely lavish, and he never used one word when 12 would do better! This is a book to be read slowly and each page should be savoured.… (plus d'informations)
In 2005 Rushforth finished A Dead Language, which is the sequel to Pinkerton’s Sister. In fact, it was to be the second in a quintet but sadly, Rushforth passed away whilst walking the Yorkshire Moors with some friends. Dead Language is about Alice’s brother, Ben, and his story skips back and forth between past and present with surprising ease.
We read a bout Ben’s harrowing journey through adolescence into manhood, and how his father torments him mercilessly for being ‘as pretty as a girl’ and for blushing and being naturally musically talented.
Rushforth’s storytelling technique is extremely lavish, and he never used one word when 12 would do better! This is a book to be read slowly and each page should be savoured.… (plus d'informations)
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kehs | 1 autre critique | Nov 2, 2008 |
kehs | 1 autre critique | Nov 2, 2008 | 
Although the author's portrayal of children isn't always that believable (they're too sensitive and literate altogether!) I loved this novel for the way it drives home the particularilty of each person's suffering as a result of events like the Holocaust or terrorism. This novel takes numbers like "six million" and tries to put a domestic, specific face on at least a dozen of them, leaving the reader to imagine that similar and different stories are attached to all of those remaining.
I also applaud the way in which the author ties together history and myth (specifically, fairy tales) and the way he experiments with varying narrative formats: the portrayal of Berlin in the 1920s and 30s in Chapter 7 is particularly vivid.… (plus d'informations)
I also applaud the way in which the author ties together history and myth (specifically, fairy tales) and the way he experiments with varying narrative formats: the portrayal of Berlin in the 1920s and 30s in Chapter 7 is particularly vivid.… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 3
- Membres
- 389
- Popularité
- #62,204
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 8
- ISBN
- 25
- Langues
- 2
If you like listening to the feverish imaginings of someone who is very erudite and nursing a lot of hatred, you may enjoy this book. The writing is perhaps very fine, and the scholarly background is probably even better, but I didn't enjoy _reading_ it, so I'm giving it a pass.