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Chargement... Des liens trop fragilespar Brian Morton
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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. The Weller family: Eleanor is 59, a psychologist, feeling old and overweight, who split up with her husband a year ago because of his affairs; that ex-husband is Adam Weller, early '60s, a novelist who thinks very highly of himself, has discovered Viagra and a very young girlfriend; Maud is their daughter, a doctoral student in philosophy, who has a history of nervous breakdowns. Happiness and tragedy strike with equal force, and insight is gained, but the overall message I took away from this book was that we are who we are and our roles rarely change. In times of crisis, change may seem possible; but when the crisis passes, we revert to the person we were before the crisis. Very real characters, no pat ending. Enjoyed this book. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML: Adam Weller is a moderately successful novelist, past his prime, but squiring around a much younger woman and still longing for greater fame and glory. His former wife, Eleanor, is unhappily playing the role of the overweight, discarded woman. Their daughter Maud has just begun a frankly sexual affair that unexpectedly becomes life-changing. Into each of these lives the past intrudes in a way that will test them to their core. With perfect pitch and a rare empathy, Brian Morton is equally adept at portraying the life of the mind and how it plays out in the world, brilliantly tracing the border between honor and violation. Here Morton tells his strongest story yetâ??a story about love, friendship, literary treachery, and what each of us owes to the past. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I managed to finish this book, but never could bring myself to care much about the characters, they were all simply too unlikeable, the same problem I had with Morton's previous book, STARTING OUT IN THE EVENING. There are four principals: Adam Weller, a mid-tier New York Jewish writer; his ex-wife Eleanor, a self-pitying psychologist; his adult daughter Maud, a philosophy student who's already had a couple of breakdowns; and Samir, Maud's Arab-American lover. Too bad Morton chose to focus most on Maud, because I'd have liked more about Adam, conscienceless womanizer and - even worse - a literary thief. A prick, no question, but more interesting that Maud, whose pursuit of Samir through a series of silent oral sex liaisons, was, I thought, laughable. Morton tries to temper this with Maud's inner monologues. An intellectual with a sense of humor, obviously no 'Monkey' this girl, but Morton seems to be trying to 'out-Portnoy' Roth, and it's still not much more than a dressed-up male fantasy. Later developments in the Maud-Samir relationship attempt to inject some tragic overtones, as well as some commentary on the Jew-Arab matchup, but, in the end I just didn't care.
This is not really a bad book; Morton is a very talented writer who has all the tools. One blurb here says Morton "creates some of the most complex and real female characters of any writer." Well, I don't think so. For some real female characters by a male writer, I would recommend some of McMurtry's early novels, like MOVING ON or TERMS OF ENDEARMENT. The women in this book? Nope. Not even close. ( )