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Chargement... Next life might be kinder (original 2014; édition 2014)par Howard A. Norman
Information sur l'oeuvreNext Life Might Be Kinder par Howard Norman (2014)
![]() Books Read in 2021 (2,755) Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. ![]() ![]() I didn't like this book as well as I liked "What is left for the daughter". Spoilers could easily appear. I know there isn't much similarity but I fairly recently read a book by Anne Tyler that had some similarities to this book & that felt weird. The couple gets married, they live in a hotel in Halifax, she is murdered by a crazy bellhop, he sells the rights to the story to a crazy filmmaker, and he retreats to a small coastal town. And then...he goes to a psychiatrist, he talks to his wife on the beach. Is she real? or is he making her up? Does she have something to tell him, or is she just there with him? Etc. There was some very weird stuff in the book. The crazy bellhop harasses the women & the hotel security guy keeps going & hurting him to try to convince him to stop. But the hotel says they can't fire him. But they can assault him? I guess it was supposed to have a certain kind of feeling...it reminded me a little of the Grand Budapest Hotel...but it didn't really fit with the other parts of the story. "Hallucination as the Persistence of Grief" (p. 251). Regrettably, this book is not nearly as good as some of Howard Norman's earlier works, especially The Bird Artist and The Museum Guard. Seems that perhaps Norman was aiming to write something that would be appealing to be turned into a film (and the novel itself addresses selling one's story to film rights). About as disappointing as his earlier novel "The Haunting of L." On the other hand, if one finds "The Haunting of L" worthy of praise, then this one may well be appealing as well. During the read of this novel, I kept feeling that we were going to be told that what was presented as reality was really the movie script about a movie script. Melodrama, check! Forties theme, check! Creepy, evil bellman, check! Strange with a capital "S" shrink, check! Somebody call Hitchcock, please. Widower cannot negotiate life without a nightly appearance on the beach of his murdered wife. Friendly neighbors understand and support this. Over-zealous moviemaker (widower sells story of wife's murder as he needs bucks) drives everyone crazy and his assistant is too wierd for words. I loved it, take a walk into the bizarre. My thanks to Goodreads and the author for a complimentary copy. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"After my wife, Elizabeth Church, was murdered by the bellman Alfonse Padgett in the Essex Hotel, she did not leave me." Sam Lattimore meets Elizabeth Church in 1970s Halifax, in an art gallery. The sparks are immediate, leading quickly to a marriage that is dear, erotically charged, and brief. In Howard Norman's spellbinding and moving novel, the gleam of the marriage and the circumstances of Elizabeth's murder are revealed in heart stopping increments. Sam's life afterward is complicated. For one thing, in a moment of desperate confusion, he sells his life story to a Norwegian filmmaker named Istvakson, known for the stylized violence of his films, whose artistic drive sets in motion an increasingly intense cat and mouse game between the two men. For another, Sam has begun "seeing" Elizabeth, not only seeing but holding conversations with her, almost every evening, and watching her line up books on a small beach. What at first seems simply hallucination born of terrible grief reveals itself, evening by evening, as something else entirely. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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