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Clock Dance (2018)

par Anne Tyler

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Willa Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life. In 1967, she is a schoolgirl coping with her mother's sudden disappearance. In 1977, she is a college coed considering a marriage proposal. In 1997, she is a young widow trying to piece her life back together. And in 2017, she yearns to be a grandmother, yet the prospect is dimming. So, when Willa receives a phone call from a stranger, telling her that her son's ex-girlfriend has been shot, she drops everything and flies across the country to Baltimore. The impulsive decision to look after this woman and her nine-year-old daughter will lead Willa into uncharted territory--surrounded by eccentric neighbors, plunged into the rituals that make a community a family, and forced to find solace in unexpected places.… (plus d'informations)
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Like many women who were coming of age when the women’s rights movement began seeing results in higher education and employment opportunities, the protagonist Willa did go to college and have ambitious career aspirations, but more to please the people around her, puts everything aside for her family. Willa decided when she was eleven that she would always be the steady, reliable, competent one in a relationship. Like her father, and in contrast to her volatile, dramatic, and sometimes AWOL mother. We meet Willa at eleven, twenty-one, and forty-one in vignettes of significant events in her life, and then the second half of the book is the main narrative, when she is sixty-one. I did not have a good sense of Willa’s character until the end of the book, but then it seemed possibly deliberate. I won’t give away any spoilers, but I could firmly relate to this character’s haphazard journey of self-discovery after a lifetime of working on being the rock for everyone else. ( )
  bschweiger | Feb 4, 2024 |
I forgot how well the author develops her characters and this book continued that. I had not read one of her books in a long time...maybe ACCIDENTAL TOURIST was the last. A very warm and comfortable read with very imaginable characters. I wanted to be in the book! The reason I didn't give it 5 stars was only because of the ending. Predictable but inconclusive. ( )
  LivelyLady | Jul 13, 2023 |
Anne Tyler has this matter-of-fact way of telling stories, especially of women. Clock Dance is just such a tale: we follow Willa Drake through her life from her childhood in the 1960s through 2007 when a phone call from a stranger leads her to Baltimore. I adored the book from start to finish and Willa Drake is my new hero! ( )
  witchyrichy | Apr 30, 2023 |
És una Tyler 100%. Llegit a partir d’un taller de biblioteràpia on ens el van recomanar com a novel·la on veiem que necessitem tenir objectius a la vida. Però és molt més que això. De fet potser no ho és gens. Com sempre Tyler retrata perfectament situacions quotidianes, pensaments, sensacions, mals entesos… També veiem parts de vida americana, maneres de funcionar, relacions pares-fills. M’encanta! ( )
  ConxaM | Apr 9, 2023 |
Subtle, yet heartwarming and inspiring, Clock Dance manages to create a protagonist, Willa, that represents the internal voice that so many women have. The voice that tells us to act politely under all circumstances and never create a fuss. The voice that asks ourselves "why haven't I done more with my life?" The voice that tinges all new experiences, large and small, with anxiety. What makes the book worthwhile is seeing how Willa grows from a timid young woman to an empowered individual. The small details bring the story to life and keep the reader engaged and turning the pages. For me, this book was enjoyable to read, but in a simple, sincere way. Neither the writing nor the storytelling really elevated it to something more special. ( )
  Anita_Pomerantz | Mar 23, 2023 |
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The Baltimore author’s 22nd book has familiar comforts, but lacks narrative drive
 
More predictable and less profound than her most recent full-scale work (the magical A Spool of Blue Thread, 2015), but Tyler’s characteristic warmth and affection for her characters are as engaging as ever.
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Later, crossing the upstairs hall with a basket of laundry, Willa glanced into Cheryl's room to see what they were up to.  Patty stood facing her, both arms extended from her sides with Laurie and Cheryl directly behind her.  All that showed of Laurie and Cheryl were their own arms, extended too so that Patty seemed to possess six arms, all six moving in stiff, stop-and-start arcs in time to the clicking sounds that Willa could hear now punctuating the music.  "It's a clock dance!" Cheryl shouted, briefly peeking out from the tail end.  "Can't you tell?"
If Willa were to invent a clock dance, it wouldn't look like the one the three little girls had shown her.  No, hers would feature a woman racing across the stage from left to right, all the while madly whirling so that the audience saw only a spinning blur of color before she vanished into the wings, pouf!  Just like that.  Gone
"But sometimes it feels so repetitive.  You know?  Like when I'm getting dressed, I'll think, These same old, same old colors; I wish I had some new ones.  But there aren't any new ones, anywhere on earth..."
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Willa Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life. In 1967, she is a schoolgirl coping with her mother's sudden disappearance. In 1977, she is a college coed considering a marriage proposal. In 1997, she is a young widow trying to piece her life back together. And in 2017, she yearns to be a grandmother, yet the prospect is dimming. So, when Willa receives a phone call from a stranger, telling her that her son's ex-girlfriend has been shot, she drops everything and flies across the country to Baltimore. The impulsive decision to look after this woman and her nine-year-old daughter will lead Willa into uncharted territory--surrounded by eccentric neighbors, plunged into the rituals that make a community a family, and forced to find solace in unexpected places.

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