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Chargement... Paper Moon (2006)par Marion Husband
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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. I read this book having read Husband's The Boy I Love - which I believe was her first novel. Although the Boy was good, Paper Moon is better and shows how the author has matured. The writing has a certain under-stated quality that I admire - there are no over-done metaphors or long-winded descriptions, just good, clear, rather dry prose and a very compelling, if rather disturbing plot that had me reading late into the night. I loved this book and read it in a couple of days, couldn't put it down and had to know what was to become of the lovely, tortured Bobby. Bobby Harris and Jane Mason, the main characters, really come alive, but then all the characters do, even the quite minor ones. This is just a great read and covers quite an unusual subject. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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In 1938, after an unhappy childhood, Paul's son Bobby Harris runs away to London. In Soho he's picked up by Jason Hargreaves, a society photographer, and becomes his model. In Jason's studio Bobby meets Nina Tate. Bobby and Nina pose for erotic photographs and soon become lovers. Jason pays for Bobby to learn to fly and at the outbreak of the Second World War, he joins the RAF and becomes a fighter pilot. Nina marries a Canadian pilot who is killed in 1940, just before the birth of their child, Joan. Bobby steps in to take care of Nina and Joan but in 1944 Joan dies and Bobby is shot down, suffering terrible burns to his hands and face. No longer the beautiful young man of Jason's photographs, in 1946 Bobby returns to hide himself away in the house he's inherited from his grandfather in Thorp, his relationship with Nina destroyed by grief and Nina's reactions to his disfigurement. In Thorp, Bobby meets Jane, an unhappily married schoolteacher. Trying to get over Nina, slowly, Bobby falls in love with this gentle, older woman, believing that she is the only person who sees beyond his injuries.In London, Nina meets Mick Morgan, now a very famous poet and playwright. She also meets Hugh, Mick's son, and Nina and Hugh begin a passionate love affair. However, Hugh and Bobby were childhood friends whose friendship ended bitterly. Through Nina, Hugh and Bobby become rivals, a rivalry that is complicated by Mick and the mysterious figure that returns to England from Morocco to confront Bobby with the truth about his past.Paper Moon is a passionate love story that also explores how the sins of the fathers can have far-reaching effects on the sons. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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At the heart of Paper Moon is Bobby Harris, a RAF pilot who was badly burnt when shot down in 1944. After war and the death of his grandfather, he's intent on hiding from the world, from his friend Nina who first knew him as a photographer's model, like herself, and reluctant to renew his friendship with Hugh who he was friends with as a boy.
I was reading this book on the train and I had no trouble finishing it during one day--I suspect I once again raced through faster than strictly necessary. ( )