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Chargement... Mercypar Bill Littlefield
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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. Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. This is a very well written book. I was drawn into the characters and felt like I was sitting with them as they told me about their lives (even though its clear lots of them would not have shared their thoughts/experiences). I loved that the theme of forgiveness and mercy went through the book, and connected all the different tales together. It also described being released from prison as an act of mercy. Overall I loved this book, it made me laugh out loud at times and I'd love to read another book by this author. (4/5 stars) Please note: I received a free copy of this book in exchange for providing an unbiased review. Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. Various individuals musing on life and death. I was confused at first and had trouble keeping the various characters straight but as their stories fleshed out and the characters connected together it became easier to follow. The jumping around in time was a little disorienting and a few of the chapters/story lines/narrators didn't quite fit. The description of the events around Tommy Baladuci's death didn't really fit in since there weren't really any other significant events in the book and also because it had taken place many years before (presumably) the rest of the book was set. I enjoyed how most of the storylines eventually came together even if only peripherally.aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"...a beautiful woman too young to be widowed waits for her husband to come home from prison. Arthur Baladino is getting out courtesy of a compassionate leave program, the theory being that he's too feeble to shoot anybody else. Next door to the Baladino home, a little boy in a baseball uniform asks his father, "What happens when you die?" It's a question the father will soon confront in a terrible and surprising way. Just down the street, a young woman is trying to figure out how to re-start her life after her husband has lost his money, hers, and their home by day-trading in their basement. Elsewhere in the neighborhood, several women and a couple of men--two of them accomplished arsonists who've sometimes been employed by Arthur Baladino--dream of what might have been if they'd been wiser, more patient, or luckier in a past long dead everywhere but in their imaginations." Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Although how the various characters are connected to each other is obscure at first, they all have some connection to notorious crime boss Arthur Baladino, a Whitey Bulger-like gangster. Mercy is set in the suburban, middle-class neighborhood where Baladino, nearing death, has been released from a life sentence and allowed to come home to die. Neighbors and local journalists may wonder why a violent criminal like Baladino – a mobster not known for showing mercy to his victims – was granted the mercy of dying at home instead of remaining locked behind bars, but it remains speculation. No one knows for sure.
Don't read Mercy for the suspense (Though there is some.) or the sports (Only one sports metaphor – "The best team doesn't always win.") Read it for the multifaceted human characters in need of forgiveness and forgiving, and the thread of human connection binding us together, however different the lives we lead.
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Disclaimer: I received a free, digital advanced reading copy of this book from the publisher through LibraryThing's Early Reviewer program in exchange for an unbiased review. ( )