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Chargement... The Innocents (original 2012; édition 2012)par Francesca Segal
Information sur l'oeuvreThe Innocents par Francesca Segal (2012)
   Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.  sunshine608 | Feb 2, 2021 |    ) szbuhayar | May 24, 2020 | ) Jandrew74 | May 26, 2019 | The feeling and precision of Segal’s prose makes for a glorious read as the relationship between Adam, Rachel and Ellie changes and fluctuates through the course of the book. camharlow2 | Nov 22, 2018 | ( ) Rdra1962 | Aug 1, 2018 |
 Part ambiguous morality tale, part guidebook on north London Jewish community culture, this is a hugely enjoyable first novel...The Innocents asks a simple question: how do you know you've married the right person? And it gives a complicated answer. The end result falls somewhere between Charlotte Mendelson's When We Were Bad (about a matriarchal Jewish rabbi) and David Nicholl's One Day (with its theme of mismatched love) and is all the more pleasing for that. Perhaps not one to read if you've just got engaged, though. In a humorous re-working of Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence, the Costa Prize-winning debut novelist, Francesca Segal substitutes 1870s New York with present-day north-west London. It takes chutzpah to appropriate such a well-loved classic, but Segal parallels the two convention-bound worlds with aplomb...Throughout this classily composed comedy of manners, Segal mirrors the constrained social code of Wharton's Fifth Avenue. As we watch Adam face a series of increasingly exquisite dilemmas we start to nurse the forlorn hope that this compliant son might yet go rogue and smash up his very nearly happy life. But who are we kidding? When this tightly-knit community closes ranks, there is no escape. Est une ré-écriture dePrix et récompenses
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HTML:"It is impossible to resist this novel's wit, grace, and charm." â??Lauren Groff, author of The Monsters of Templeton and Arcadia A smart and slyly funny tale of love, temptation, confusion, and commitment; a triumphant and beautifully executed recasting of Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence. Newly engaged and unthinkingly self-satisfied, twenty-eight-year-old Adam Newman is the prize catch of Temple Fortune, a small, tight-knit Jewish suburb of London. He has been dating Rachel Gilbert since they were both sixteen and now, to the relief and happiness of the entire Gilbert family, they are finally to marry. To Adam, Rachel embodies the highest values of Temple Fortune; she is innocent, conventional, and entirely secure in her communityâ??a place in which everyone still knows the whereabouts of their nursery school classmates. Marrying Rachel will cement Adam's role in a warm, inclusive family he loves. But as the vast machinery of the wedding gathers momentum, Adam feels the first faint touches of claustrophobia, and when Rachel's younger cousin Ellie Schneider moves home from New York, she unsettles Adam more than he'd care to admit. Ellieâ??beautiful, vulnerable, and fiercely independentâ??offers a liberation that he hadn't known existed: a freedom from the loving interference and frustrating parochialism of North West London. Adam finds himself questioning everything, suddenly torn between security and exhilaration, tradition and independence. What might he be missing by staying cl Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I tend to like these type of novels- almost a look into how other people live but without overdone drama. The writing in this book was wonderful, although I have to admit that it didn't draw me in at first, but once it did I was hooked. (