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Chargement... The Body in the Clouds: A Novel (2010)par Ashley Hay
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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. heard great things abt this story 2nite now to find a copy, Ashley Hay started out writing non-fiction and this is amply demonstrated in this novel. It reads as though an historian is trying to write a book about the Sydney Harbour Bridge but make a basically boring subject interesting. She only half-succeeds. The subject remains basically boring, the characters are not well developed, the plot is largely implausible. I can see why it was nominated for prizes - there's an element of political correctness that librarian-types love - but I don't. “The Body in the Clouds”, by Ashley Hay, has been described as a luminous novel: this is an apt description. It is full of rich imagery which captures the mood of the place and the time. The characters, while often looking at life and events with quite a different perspective from the rest of us, are realistic and full of depth. Set in three different centuries, the stories are entwined by common threads, places and objects. Within those stories, more stories, some centuries old, some more recent, which resonate with the three main characters. Ashley takes small pieces of history and legends, and fills in the everyday bits: the descriptions, the thoughts and feelings of the participants. A bit like taking a line drawing and adding the colour and shading to make it real for us. Ashley’s depth of research into that history and legend is evident. In addition, Ashley introduces the singular concept that certain events leave a trace, an imprint of themselves, as it were, both before and after they happen. “The Body in the Clouds” was an absolute pleasure to read. Let us hope Ashley will continue to share her literary talent with her readers. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"From the acclaimed author of the "exquisitely written and deeply felt" (Geraldine Brooks, author of The Secret Chord) novel The Railwayman's Wife comes a magical and gorgeously wrought tale of an astonishing event that connects three people across three hundred years. Imagine you looked up at just the right moment and saw something completely unexpected. What if it was something so marvelous that it transformed time and space forever? The Body in the Clouds tells the story of one such extraordinary moment--a man falling from the sky, and surviving--and of the three men who see it, in different ways and at different times, as they stand on the same piece of land. An astronomer in the 1700s, a bridge worker in the 1930s, and an expatriate banker returning home in the early twenty-first century: all three are transformed by this one magical event. And all three are struggling to understand what the meaning of "home" is, and how to recognize it once you're there. Widely praised for her "poetic gifts" (Booklist) and "graceful, supremely honest, [and] thought-provoking" (Kirkus Reviews) prose, Ashley Hay has crafted a luminous and unforgettable novel about the power of story, its ability to define the world around us, and the questions that transcend time"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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