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Chargement... The Obituary Writer: A Novel (original 2013; édition 2013)par Ann Hood (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreThe Obituary Writer par Ann Hood (2013)
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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. Loved the way Vivien and Claire's different stories and eras dovetailed. A moving exploration of grief and its effects on a life, as well as different levels of loss. Ambiguous ending -- look forward to discussion. ( ) Not my normal genre; it's rather darker than the fiction I generally read. But a very well-written book. Based in the United States, it features two women in two different time periods last century; they have some things in common (including a surprisingly blasé attitude to adultery, given the eras) but we don't learn until towards the end of the book how they are linked. I didn't see it coming. I didn't really bond with any of the characters, but it was a readable book that was quite difficult to put down at times. It brought to life some periods of US history that I knew little about, and it raises some important issues about love and marriage, and the nature of grief. Could trigger painful memories in some, but with that proviso I would recommend it. Full review here: https://suesbookreviews.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-obituary-writer-by-ann-hood.htm... Two seemingly unconnected women are the main characters in The Obituary Writer. Claire, a housewife from the 1960's who is infatuated with John Kennedy, and Vivien, the obituary writer who lost her lover in the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 are these two women. The reader follows both of them through their seemingly unconnected lives and experiences the two different time periods through the excellent descriptions offered by Hood in the alternating voices of each of the women. The book offers an interesting mix of times, characters, and intrigue leaving the reader to try to guess why the two stories are being told in this one book. I began to enjoy this book more in the last several pages. I was wringing my hands during the pages of Claire visiting her mother in law to celebrate her 88th birthday. How can someone be so cavalier about an unborn child and put the child at such risk!! And Birdie...i realize it was early 1900's but honestly? They would have buried that guy and she should have known he had passed, so that part of story was very unbelievable. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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On the day John F. Kennedy is inaugurated, Claire, a young wife and mother obsessed with the glamour of Jackie, struggles over the decision of whether to stay in a loveless but secure marriage or to follow the man she loves and whose baby she may be carrying. Decades earlier in 1919, Vivien Lowe, an obituary writer, is searching for her lover who disappeared in the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. By telling the stories of the dead, Vivien not only helps others cope with their grief but also begins to understand the devastation of her own terrible loss. The surprising connection between these two women will change Claire's life in unexpected and extraordinary ways. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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