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Chargement... The Story of Beautiful Girl (original 2011; édition 2011)par Rachel Simon (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreThe Story of Beautiful Girl par Rachel Simon (2011)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Adversity I love this story. I love the historical insight that is a part of our country we never acknowledge. I love the balance of character perspective. I love Lynnie and Kate and Homan. I so appreciate the authors ability to relate horribly ugly situations and characters without becoming overly graphic. She took the reader to those places and introduced them to those characters and brought the scene or character to life vividly without resorting to cheap unnecessary graphicness. There are parts of this book where you have to suspend belief because there are some gaps and some things that would really take extraordinary events for it to play out the way it did. I was able to do that because I did care about the characters. Lynnie can't process things and speak, so her parents institutionalize her. It's nothing more than a warehouse for lost souls, so her limited capacity to learn is further hindered. She is raped one night & gives birth with a deaf man's help to a baby girl. They escape the "school", finally landing at an old lady's farm, where they hide in the attic with the baby. Lynnie is dragged back to the school, the man escapes (although everyone believes him dead) and the old lady raises the baby. Many years later, Lynnie's sister finds her and the baby, of course now grown. And the deaf man has settled in a shore town with a lighthouse, thinking that eventually Lynnie will find him, which she does.
Simon, who wrote so sensitively about disability in her memoir Riding the Bus With My Sister, often skirts schmaltz in The Story of Beautiful Girl, but she manages to steer her reader toward the truly stirring.
"A novel about a woman who can't speak, a man who is deaf, and a widow who finds herself suddenly caring for a newborn baby"--Provided by publisher. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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