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Chargement... History of Wolves : A Novel (original 2017; édition 2017)par Emily Fridlund (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreHistory of Wolves par Emily Fridlund (2017)
  
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 hmonkeyreads | Jan 25, 2024 |   Early on we learn that Paul has "gone from living to dead" and the story alternates between finding out what happened to Paul and Mr. Grierson/Lily. I really wanted to love this book but it just didn't do it for me. The story is slow and not much happened even though the premise seems otherwise. I found the main character to be unlikeable. The writing is beautiful but not enough to save the book. (  ) Lauranthalas | Jul 24, 2023 | Linda makes Patra into an object of affection and is very uncomfortable when her academic husband Leo shows up. Caring for Paul is something of a challenge for her; he is both backward and infuriating at times, but Linda manages to get him interested in games mimicking her woodcraft skills. Eventually this scenario goes sour, as Leo starts to assert his authority and tries to get rid of Linda. She resists, but it does not end well. I mostly enjoyed this book and would probably rate it more highly except that I found the ending very dissatisfying, and Fridlund's attempt to reconcile the Gardiner and teacher threads of her story felt very unconvincing to me. ( ) gjky | Apr 9, 2023 | Writing quality: 5/5 Originality: 4/5 Character Development: 4/4 Plot Development: 2/4 Overall Enjoyment: 2/2 (  ) Anita_Pomerantz | Mar 23, 2023 | ) cathy.lemann | Mar 21, 2023 |
With her overflowing cauldron of contradictions — sexually curious and naïve, an outsider taunted by her classmates who longs to become something other than herself — Linda seems as much prey as predator, akin to the wolves she studies.... Regardless of one’s judgment about the characters’ mistakes and shortcomings, the chilly power of “History of Wolves” packs a wallop that’s hard to shake off. In the process, Fridlund — who received a Ph.D. in creative writing from USC — has constructed an elegant, troubling debut, both immersed in the natural world but equally concerned with issues of power, family, faith and the gap between understanding something and being able to act on the knowledge. Fridlund’s novel is compelling and deliberate. Tension is seeded throughout the narrative at just the right intervals, even though the incident at the core of the novel—the death of young Paul Gardner—is known from page two. The mystery surrounding Paul’s death does its work to pull the reader along, but Linda and her longing is our focal point. The fallout of Paul’s death is quickly concluded, though it’s apparent that the events of that summer still weigh on her in adulthood. What’s not so clear is exactly what continues to follow Linda. Is it the loss of her friend? Is it the intimacy she failed to find in Mr. Grierson, Lily, or Patra? Or is it the way that Leo Gardner, Paul’s father, led her to question how she views the world? ... History of Wolves is artfully told, leaving the reader as scattered and wanting as the adult Linda who shares her childhood stories. She invites us to intensely long for the same things she does: intimacy, understanding, and a clear place in life. This is a difficult poetry to achieve in literature. I was relieved at the slow-motion tragedy that does unfold is testimony to Fridlund’s daring. An artful story of sexual awakening and identity formation turns more stomach-churning; child sacrifice takes many forms, and sometimes the act doesn’t require bloodshed but simply adults too wedded to their ideals.... Fridlund has a tendency to double up on her descriptors, to use two adjectives where one would do. But she is masterly when she lets more scraped-down prose push a series of elemental questions to the fore: Do intentions matter? What price will you pay to feel wanted? How does it feel to be both guilty and exonerated? The result is a novel of ideas that reads like smart pulp, a page-turner of craft and calibration. History of Wolves follows a 14-year-old girl named Madeline, though nobody calls her that: "At school, I was called Linda, or Commie, or Freak." ... Perhaps the greatest accomplishment in the novel is Fridlund's portrayal of Linda, who the reader encounters not just as a teenager, but, in brief flash-forward scenes, as an adult still psychically wounded from the events of the summer. Sometimes people overcome the traumas they were subjected to as children; sometimes they don't. For most people, and for Linda, it's somewhere in between.... Looking in hindsight isn't any more accurate than trying to predict the future, of course; and neither really works out for Linda. But she's such an incredible character — both typical and special, sometimes capable of great love and sometimes spectacularly not — that it's hard to turn away from her sometimes horrifying story. Prix et récompensesDistinctionsListes notables
La quatrième de couverture indique : "Madeline, adolescente un peu sauvage, observe à travers ses jumelles cette famille qui emménage sur la rive opposée du lac. Un couple et leur enfant dont la vie aisée semble si différente de la sienne. Bientôt, alors que le père travaille au loin, la jeune mère propose à Madeline de s'occuper du garçon, de passer avec lui ses après-midi, puis de partager leurs repas. L'adolescente entre petit à petit dans ce foyer qui la fascine, ne saisissant qu'à moitié ce qui se cache derrière la fragile gaieté de cette mère et la sourde autorité du père. Jusqu'à ce qu'il soit trop tard. Troublant et poétique, best-seller dès sa parution aux États-Unis, le premier roman d'Emily Fridlund a été acclamé par la critique". Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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2017 Booker Prize longlist: History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund
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