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Chargement... Disobedience (2000)par Jane Hamilton
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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. J'ai été déçu par ce roman de Jane Hamilton. Ses deux premiers livres (The Map of the World et The Book of Ruth) racontaient une inéluctable descente aux enfers familiale digne de W. Faulkner. Cette fois-ci, c'est plutôt tout le monde il est beau tout le monde il est gentil. Tout cela est raconté lentement, sans à-coup et il faut un peu se forcer pour tourner la page jusqu'à la fin. Un aspect a cependant retenu mon attention : la description de ces fans de la Guerre de Sécession qui revivent les grandes batailles du passé, jouant en grandeur nature et sur le terrain les épisodes célèbres. J'ai aussitôt pensé à ce gendarme fanatique des guerres napoléoniennes que j'ai rencontré en 1998 ou 1999 et qui attendait avec impatience de revivre les grandes batailles de Napoléon au moment de leur centième anniversaire. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"Henry Shaw, a high school student, is about as comfortable with his family as any seventeen-year-old can be. His father, Kevin, teaches history with a decidedly socialist tinge at the Chicago private school Henry and his sister attend. His mother, Beth, who plays the piano in a group specializing in antique music, is a loving, attentive wife and parent. Henry even accepts the offbeat behavior of his thirteen-year-old sister, Elvira, who is obsessed with Civil War reenactments and insists on dressing in handmade Union uniforms at inopportune times." "When he stumbles on his mother's e-mail account, however, Henry realizes that all is not as it seems. There, under the name Liza38, a name that Henry innocently established for her, is undeniable evidence that his mother is having an affair with one Richard Polloco, a violin maker and unlikely paramour who nonetheless has a very appealing way with words and a romantic spirit that, in Henry's estimation, his own father woefully lacks." "Against his better judgment, Henry charts the progress of his mother's infatuation, her feelings of euphoria, of guilt, and of profound, touching confusion. His knowledge of Beth's secret life colors his own tentative explorations of love and sex with the ephemeral Lily, and casts a new light on the arguments - usually focused on Elvira - in which his parents regularly indulge. Over the course of his final year of high school, Henry observes each member of the family, trying to anticipate when they will find out about the infidelity and what the knowledge will mean to each of them." "Henry's observations, set down ten years after that fateful year, are much more than the "old story" of adultery his mother deemed her affair to be."--BOOK JACKET. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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