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Chargement... Tigers in Red Weather: A Novel (édition 2013)par Liza Klaussmann (Auteur)
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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. Well written, but lacking something for me ( ) En septiembre de 1945, Helena y Nick, dos primas hermanas, comparten una ginebra en la parte trasera del jardín mientras charlan sobre el futuro que les espera ahora que la guerra ha acabado. Nick se reúne de nuevo con su marido, Hughes, que ha estado sirviendo en Inglaterra en los últimos meses. Por su parte, Helena –que perdió a su esposo en la contienda– se marcha a Hollywood para casarse con Avery Lewis, un agente de seguros vinculado al mundo del cine. El futuro es un misterio, y los hombres de los que se enamoraron ya no son los mismos... y si Nick se siente atrapada en su papel de madre y ama de casa y echa de menos una vida más intensa, Helena se da cuenta de que Avery no es lo que parecía. Pasarán los años y la Casa de los Tigres, el lugar donde habían compartido las dos familias tan buenos momentos, empezará a llenarse de engaños, sueños rotos y preguntas alrededor de un crimen... Klaussmann’s first novel has assured touches and enmeshes you in the life of an American family. Starting in post-war 1945 and spanning the following 24 years, this fascinating novel follows the lives of the family, mostly through their stays at their summer retreat on the rural east coast. It is told through the distinctive voices of five of the family in separate parts, so that at times, events are repeated, but viewed from a different perspective that alters the readers understanding of the events. Through the years, the relationships between the family members, subtly change, in a thoroughly realistic way, which adds much to the plot and perceptively reveals the tensions in the family as the atmosphere grows progressively darker after the early lighter mood and optimism of peace. A summer story that does pack a wallop as it slowly builds its plot. Who are the innocents and who the deceivers? Nick the beautiful temptress. Does she actually love her husband Hughes? Is she faithful? Her cousin Helena married to a weird man with a dead actress fetish. Why does she put up with this? With pills and booze and extreme jealousy of her cousin. Helena whose son Ed is in his head all the time and loyal only to Daisy. Hughes who loves his wife so much yet cannot connect with her. "Tigers in Red Weather has a whole host of intriguing characters and a thrilling plot. An excellent read. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"Nick and her cousin, Helena, have grown up sharing sultry summer heat, sunbleached boat docks, and midnight gin parties on Martha's Vineyard in a glorious old family estate known as Tiger House. In the days following the end of the Second World War, the world seems to offer itself up, and the two women are on the cusp of their 'real lives': Helena is off to Hollywood and a new marriage, while Nick is heading for a reunion with her own young husband, Hughes, about to return from the war. Soon the gilt begins to crack. Helena's husband is not the man he seemed to be, and Hughes has returned from the war distant, his inner light curtained over. On the brink of the 1960s, back at Tiger House, Nick and Helena--with their children, Daisy and Ed--try to recapture that sense of possibility. But when Daisy and Ed discover the victim of a brutal murder, the intrusion of violence causes everything to unravel. The members of the family spin out of their prescribed orbits, secrets come to light, and nothing about their lives will ever be the same. Brilliantly told from five points of view, with a magical elegance and suspenseful dark longing, Tigers in Red Weather is an unforgettable debut novel from a writer of extraordinary insight and accomplishment"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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