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Chargement... Just Beneath My Skinpar Darren Greer
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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. In Just Beneath My Skin Darren Greer crams a lot into very few pages. This short novel tells the story of Jake McNeil's return to his home town of North River, Nova Scotia after spending time living and working in Halifax. When Jake moved away he left his son Nathan in the care of the boy's mother Carla, an abusive, angry, unreliable drunk. Guilt has forced him to return in order to take Nathan with him to Halifax, where he hopes to provide his son with a better life. The story is told in two alternating first-person streams, one narrated by Jake and the other by Nathan. Jake's narrative is split between the present and his past, which includes harrowing details about his mother's death from cancer and his sister's death by drowning. Jake's life has been painful and he wants desperately to do the right thing, but by returning to North River he exposes himself to the senseless drug-fueled rancor of low-life former friends who did nothing with their lives and resent him for trying to make something of himself. There is an atmosphere of lurking menace hanging over the action that intensifies as the story nears its conclusion because in order to get back to Halifax Jake is forced to make decisions that lead him straight into danger. In Greer's depiction life in a Maritime small town is unremittingly grim. People live without hope and numb themselves to their plight with drugs, booze, or religion. But there is truth in these pages and Jake's tragedy is profound. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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In the small town of North River, every day that goes by bleeds into the next. Poverty begets hopelessness, hopelessness breeds violence, violence causes despair. The only way to change fate, a minister tells his son, is to leave. The minister's son, Jake MacNeil, chooses to ignore his father's advice. Only when he realizes what has become of his life -- working a grueling dead-end job, living with a drunk, friends with a murderer -- does he decide to make something of himself. But nothing comes without a cost: in choosing freedom, Jake abandons his own son, Nathan, to the care of the boy's abusive mother. Years later, a reformed Jake comes back for Nathan, to finally set things right. But in North River, everything comes around again; and when a dangerous figure from the past becomes hell-bent on dragging the new Jake "back down where he belongs", three generations of MacNeil men must come together to pay the full price of hope. Gritty, unrelenting, yet peppered with Darren Greer's trademark poignance, Just Beneath My Skin is the work of an author at the height of his game. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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