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Chargement... The Rocks (2015)par Peter Nichols
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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. fiction (family drama in Mediterranean seaside town). Starts off with a hook, but lags a tiny bit when it follows all the different characters and their degenerating lives. ( ) Mir hat das Buch sehr gut gefallen. Die Technik ist sehr interessant- ausgehend vom aktuellen Ereignis, dem Tod des einstigen Liebespaares, wird nach hinten erzählt. In Rückblenden erfährt man von den Protagonisten in den Jahren 2005 (aktuelles Jahr), 1995, 1983, 1970, 1966, 1951, 1948. Schlüsselszenen und Höhepunkte werden hier erzählt. Die Figuren bleiben bis in die Nebenfiguren hinein stimmig. Eines ums andere erschließt sich und am liebsten würde ich nun nochmal von vorn anfangen. Mir sind auch die Personen ans Herz gewachsen, v.a. natürlich Gerald, der stets seiner Liebe folgend „Ithaka im Sinn“ hatte. Natürlich habe ich mich oft gefragt, wieso man aus reiner Sturheit und reinem Eigensinn sein Leben und seine Liebe so dran geben kann, wie es die Hauptfiguren mitunter tun. Aber letztendlich ist das Ganze doch sehr stimmig. Und die schöne Umgebung, Mallorca, Griechenland, das Meer, ist wunderbar geschildert. Done. I am deeply impressed with the narrator of the audiobook version of The Rocks, but I hate the characters and the story is too depressing. I found the reverse timeline interesting and enjoyable, but not enough to finish the book. Frankly, I don't see any way to redeem the irredeemable Lulu and it looks like the others will come to miserable ends without enough to justify what they, and I, go through to get there. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML:??Irresistibly sunny? Set in the brightly lit Mediterranean amid old olive trees and sexual intrigue, music and wine and beautiful women... Propulsive.? ??The New York Times Book Review ??The perfect book for pretending it's already beach season.? ??O, The Oprah Magazine A romantic page-turner propelled by the sixty-year secret that has shaped two families, four lovers, and one seaside resort community. Set against dramatic Mediterranean Sea views and lush olive groves, The Rocks opens with a confrontation and a secret: What was the mysterious, catastrophic event that drove two honeymooners apart so suddenly and absolutely in 1948 that they never spoke again despite living on the same island for sixty more years? And how did their history shape the Romeo and Juliet??like romance of their (unrelated) children decades later? Centered around a popular seaside resort club and its community, The Rocks is a double love story that begins with a mystery, then moves backward in time, era by era, to unravel what really happened decades earlier. Peter Nichols writes with a pervading, soulful wisdom and self-knowing humor, and captures perfectly this world of glamorous, complicated, misbehaving types with all their sophisticated flaws and genuine longing. The result is a bittersweet, intelligent, and romantic novel about how powerful the perceived truth can be??as a bond, and as a barrier??even if it??s not really the whole story; and how one misunderstanding can Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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