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Chargement... The Mermaid of Parispar Cary Fagan
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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. It's a delightful novel set at a time when science rivaled with mythology: all belief systems were challenged which exacerbated the mysteries. This book does a wonderful job of showing some of these tensions where an investor falls in love with a mermaid but refuses to see it. He walks on that fine line between the rational and the dream world, not quite living in either. Only in the end can he reconcile himself with the dream knowing he must live in the physical. The atmosphere alone that the reader created is worth getting immersed in this novel. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
In the spring of 1900, Henry Church—inventor, amateur ornithologist, and performer of puppet theatricals for the local children—is living in a beautiful house by a river, outside a small Ontario town. But his happiness is undermined by the growing distance of his wife, the beautiful and enigmatic Margaret, who takes solitary night swims in the river to ease the mysterious pains in her legs. Henry's life is shattered by the arrival in town of a Russian performing strongman named Count Anatole Belinsky. When Margaret runs off with the count, Henry pursues them to Europe, where he takes up a precarious existence among the underclass and anarchists of Paris. His need to find Margaret again, and to understand the truth about her, will not let him rest and sends him into new and uncharted territories of emotional discovery. (September 2003) 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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