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Chargement... The September Letterspar Maeve Binchy
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Fiction.
Literature.
Short Stories.
HTML:A Vintage Shorts ??Short Story Month? Original Selection It starts out like any other dull day in a busy airport bar. James, the bartender, would much rather serve regulars at a local pub than cranky travelers. Katy and Colin have been involved in a longtime affair that comes to literal blows when he reveals that he hasn??t kept his promise to leave his wife. Between some quick thinking by James and the kindness of an American couple, Jean and Maurice, the situation is defused. And Jean??s insistence that they all stay in touch sparks friendships that are maintained across the ocean. But after nearly a decade of writing annual letters, she reveals a secret that casts the events of that day in a whole new light? The recent New York Times best seller, A Few of the Girls, is a collection of Maeve's beloved short stories that one reviewer called ??reminiscent of a letter from an old friend.? We are lucky that there are even more stories for her readers. In ??The September Letters,? never before published in the United States, Maeve once again brings us into the lives of ordinary people where chance meetings have the potential to change lives. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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So this was a really quick read, I was done in about 20 minutes with it. Since it was only $.99 I have to say that I got a great deal. This was definitely not my favorite of Maeve Binchy's short stories though. For me, it had more to deal with the final reveal and also how I got really tired of one of the characters in this story.
A chance encounter in a airport bar leads four people to stay in touch through the years by writing to each other every September.
We have James, a man in his 40s who is a bartender at the airport bar. An American couple named Maurice and Jean who are in their late 50s. And last, Katy, a young woman in her 20s who has an epic breakup with a man she's been seeing. After witnessing the fight between Katy and her boyfriend Colin, Maurice tells Katy to please write to them next year so they know how she is getting on because everyone is concerned with how she is going to be doing without Colin in her life.
Usually Maeve Binchy can breathe such life into her characters. This time, I wasn't feeling James or Katy in this story. We don't get a chance to really know Maurice and Jean because they just write letters back to Katy and they felt apart from the story. And honestly I couldn't stand Katy for most of this story. She had her head in the sand the whole time and seemed to sit around going woe is me.
The flow jerks around a lot since we are also following James and he and his wife's apparent lack of enthusiasm for each other. Then you have Katy and her messed up relationship with Colin to read.
I was pretty happy to get to the end. The reveal didn't do a thing for me at all, and honestly didn't make a lot of sense. I would have to believe that something about Katy touched anyone and made them want to keep in touch with her. Based on a few of the letters I would have been done with her long ago.
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