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Chargement... Infidelity: A Novelpar Stacey May Fowles
   Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. 1   Nickelini | May 5, 2016 |   This is the story about an affair between a married man (Charlie) and a younger, engaged woman (Ronnie). They are opposites is so many ways: she is reckless, he is anxious. There is so much passion between them. But this is also a story about how we see ourselves and what we really want from life. Ronnie is a very complex character, struggling to find her way as she leaves the path she is expected to follow. (  )1 LynnB | May 16, 2015 | I really enjoyed this one! Infidelity is everything one wants in a "guilty pleasure" read. And talk about guilty!! One will also laugh when I say that it was actually refreshing and by that I mean that the characters were not perfect housewives with perfect husbands, who led perfect lives, had perfect children and were also NOT perfectly pretty. Nope. The characters were flawed from the start. Veronica, or Ronnie, is engaged to be married to Aaron, who is almost perfect, but also very boring and SAFE. Aaron owns a catering company and Ronnie often helps out. While assisting Aaron one night at a party, Ronnie catches the eye of Charlie, the honored guest of said party. Charlie is a celebrated author, much older than Veronica, and very married. Charlie is also a father to an autistic son named, Noah. Charlie isn't the most responsible guy. He is neurotic, anal, and suffers from anxiety attacks. Charlie NEEDS someone to take care of him. He craves attention and he is instantly attracted to Ronnie, who appears to be carefree, independent, and quite opposite from everything that Charlie isn't. When Ronnie first lays eyes on Charlie she sees an older man, not very attractive, pot bellied and messy but there is something about Charlie that draws Veronica in to him. Charlie is everything that Aaron is not. Ronnie and Charlie's worlds collide at a time when both of their lives appear to be very fragile. Ronnie seems to want to sabotage her future, to shake things up because they seem so vanilla, wants to be reckless in her too safe world. Charlie is in need of someone to take care of him, to worship and idolize him, to give him the emotional comfort he lacks. And so it begins. Infidelity. What does one stand to gain from such a relationship? Or...better yet, what does one stand to lose? ( )2 MaryEvelynLS | Jun 1, 2014 |
 When these currents sharpened, I felt the writing change – grow angrier, more uneasy, deliberately out-of-key with other parts of the novel. But the loneliness of a young woman facing her own mortality and self-hood never entirely culminates into any kind of reckoning. This part of the novel moved me greatly, as Fowles shows how certain unanswerable questions are continuously set aside, superseded again and again by the distractions of lust and the consolations of love – the passions that triggered these existential questions in the first place.  Among Infidelity’s pleasures is how much Fowles conveys through uncomplicated language, revealing herself to be a skilled and confident author. Employing short chapters, shifting perspectives, and snippets of poetry, she artfully presents a controlled reflection on the illicit relationship’s disorder: lies, clandestine meetings, the lovers’ contradictory need for both domestic security and each other. Above all, it’s an intelligent demonstration of why broken, destructive relationships must be repaired or abandoned, and the difficulty of pursuing either course. Infidelity is not perfect in how it wraps up, and at times uneven in knowing when to pull back and let the natural drama of an affair take its course. But as an experience it deftly hits the mark in unravelling a very specific human journey. On a bigger level, and maybe even more successfully, it raises important questions about ennui, the human need for growth, expectations for security through marriage and the eventual breaking down of those expectations in the name of a more real love. Prix et récompenses
Ronnie, an engaged hairdresser with a history of teenage recklessness and mystery childhood illnesses, feels stifled by the unavoidable pull of the predictable, comfortable life laid out before her. Charlie, an anxiety-ridden, award-winning writer, feels suffocated by his literary success and familial responsibility, including a bread-winning wife and a child with autism. When the unlikely pair meet at a holiday party where Ronnie's fiancE is the caterer, a torrid affair, which begins on office desks and in Toronto hotel rooms, provides both with a false reality that offers solace in its secrets. Charlie becomes obsessed with the calm of Ronnie's ordinariness, and Ronnie revels in the clandestine secrets and dramatic interludes of an otherwise predictable life. The two live in film scripts and prose, until the entire lie combusts in all its tragic beauty. Beautifully written and engaging, this novel calls into question society's strict definition of right versus wrong while examining what it means to be a husband, wife, parent, and human being. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I struggle to describe this book adequately. Let me just say that I didn't like any of the characters, yet I really enjoyed reading it and breezed through it in a couple of days. I think the fact that I cared so much about a book where I didn't care for the characters says that this is a well-written story.
Recommended for: readers who like books with realistically drawn people and situations. (