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Chargement... Cabin Fever (édition 1991)par Elizabeth Jolley
Information sur l'oeuvreCabin Fever par Elizabeth Jolley
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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. We don't really move forward chronologically in this "sequel" to My Father's Moon. When we last left Vera, she was a single mother dealing with her own overbearing mother. The story bounced between Vera's present and her past. Cabin Fever is more of the same, only with more detail about the time period. In this installment Vera is in New York for a conference but for almost all of the plot we are in the past, when Vera is a new mother trying to make ends meet. She is still as sad and lonely as she ever was. It is at this point that we learn Vera's mother made Vera change her baby's name from Beatrice to Helena. We also learn more about the affair between Vera and Dr. Metcalf, a doctor she worked with at the hospital. Vera bounces from one live-in nanny/housekeeper situation to another until she lands at the Georges residence (enter sequel number three). Brother and sister live together and already have a live-in, Nora. Vera finds a way to stay in the house by filling another need of the household. I'll leave that bit unspoken. You just have to read it to find out... ( ) This book continues Vera Wright's story of her struggle as a single parent after WWII. It is builds on the previous "MY FATHER'S MOON", giving a greater insight into what happened to Vera after she left her nursing career and ended up at Fairfields. TIme zones move around a bit in these books and much is told through memories. Beautifully written. I would recommend reading the three books together (My Father's Moon, Cabin Fever , The George's Wife). Reading this second installment of Jolley's semi-autobiographical trilogy, I found myself increasingly drawn to its flinty protagonist, Vera Wright. Pregnant after a doomed affair, she resists her parents' offers of help. Vera is determined to struggle through alone, even when it means a rather grim existence dominated by menial labour. An interesting, though somewhat depressing, portrait of post-WWII English life.
Readers of Jolley's last novel, My Father's Moon , will be swept by deja vu as they read this work, which deals with the same incidents in the life of narrator Vera Wright, a nursing student in London during WW II who has an illegitimate child by a married doctor. There is one difference, however, and it is considerable: while the earlier book seemed cool and detached, here Jolley creates an atmosphere of almost palpable sorrow and desolation that elicits the reader's empathy. Though the language is again restrained, here we feel the quivering emotions that Vera suffers to bring under control: her longing for her lover, who has died in the war; her panic about raising a child alone; her regrets about her aborted career; her conflicting feelings about her parents, who want to help, but from whom she resolves to remain independent; her maturing insights about the people who have loved and/or damaged her. Jolley excels in her portrait of this frightened, lonely, unsophisticated, heartbroken woman, bravely determined to save herself and her child. Narrated in a series of short, intense flashbacks by the adult Vera, who has come to a medical conference in New York City only to find herself emotionally incapable of leaving her hotel room, the novel conveys the claustrophobic grip of unbearably poignant memories, the essence of bereavement, and the resiliency of the human spirit. Psychologically acute and penetrating, this is Jolley writing with masterful power. First serial to the New Yorker. Appartient à la sérieThe Vera Wright Trilogy (Book 2) Prix et récompenses
An intoxicating cocktail of adrenaline and the kind of vulnerability we would all admit to if we were honest, Once You Break a Knuckle explores the courage it takes just to make it through the day. Set in the remote Kootenay Valley in western Canada, these are stories of good people doing bad things: two bullied adolescents sabotage a rope swing, resulting in another boy's death; a heartbroken young man refuses to warn his best friend about an approaching car; sons challenge fathers and break taboos. Crackling with tension and propelled by jagged, cutting dialogue, the stories interconnect and reveal to us how our best intentions are doomed to fail or injure, how our loves can fall short or mislead us, how even friendship--especially friendship--can be something dangerously temporary. Wilson portrays a world barbed with violence and the possibility of betrayal. And yet, in this small, finely wrought universe, it is with doggedness and dignity that we carry on. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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