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Chargement... Allegra in Three Parts (2019)par Suzanne Daniel
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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. This is a beautiful story of a little girl, without a mother, who lives with one grandmother and her other grandmother lives in the house next door. Her grandmothers do not speak to one another,but she loves them equally. The story evolves and made me believe that love can conquer all. ( ) Eleven year old Allegra lives with her grandmother Matilde, next door to her grandmother Joy; her father lives in the flat above Matilde’s garage. Allegra knows her grandmothers love her, but they are very different and don’t get along with each other. “[...] but it’s too much being put into just one person, and the way they love me… well, it kind of pumps into me in a weird way. Sometimes I wish they could just love me less and take what's left over and put it into liking each other a little bit more.” I thought the initial mystery and conflict were slightly stronger than the answers and aftermath. But this is an interesting portrayal of growing up in Sydney in the 70s, and of the women’s liberation movement, and of a family dealing with grief. I read it in practically one sitting. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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'I can split myself in two ... something I have to do because of Joy and Matilde. They are my grandmothers and I love them both and they totally love me ... but they can't stand each other.'Eleven-year-old Allegra shuttles between her grandmothers who live next door to one another but couldn't be more different. Matilde works all hours and instils discipline, duty and restraint. She insists that Allegra focus on her studies to become a doctor. Meanwhile free-spirited Joy is full of colour, possibility and emotion, storing all her tears in little glass bottles. She is riding the second wave of the women's movement in the company of her penny tortoise, Simone de Beauvoir, encouraging Ally to explore broad horizons and live her 'true essence'. And then there's Rick who lives in a flat out the back and finds distraction in gambling and solace in surfing. He's trying to be a good father to Al Pal, while grieving the woman who links them all but whose absence tears them apart. Allegra is left to orbit these three adult worlds wishing they loved her a little less and liked each other a lot more. Until one day the unspoken tragedy which has created this division explodes within the person they all cherish most. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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