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Chargement... The Monsters of Templeton (édition 2008)par Lauren Groff (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreLes monstres de Templeton par Lauren Groff
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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. I feel as thought I've been slightly cheated another kind of story. The monster is a great device, almost a distraction, and I wanted more about the monster. ( ) I had a hard time sticking with this book. It was slow going for me and I thought more than once about skipping over the middle and reading the last pages to find out who was who. I liked the idea of the ancestry search and some of those stories, but the characters didn't interest me all that much. Disappointing. There are a number of monsters inhabiting this novel. The most obvious one is the sea monster living in Glimmerglass Lake. She turns out to be a loving benevolent creature. There is the ghost haunting the room of Wilhelmina,the novel's protagonist's. The ghost turns out to be a kind and helpful spirit. What Willie learns in the course of the novel is that(as is often the case)the true monsters are of the human variety.
A first-time novelist sets herself a nearly impossible task by employing characters invented by a novelist acknowledged as an American master. Unlike James Fenimore Cooper, though, Groff can write. . . And while I loved the unintentional effrontery of showing up that unreadable great, I was also conscious of being a captive audience at a recital. . . “The Monsters of Templeton” is propelled, and undone, by ambition. The result is a pleasurably surreal cross between The Stone Diaries and Kind Hearts and Coronets. The trouble with “The Monsters of Templeton” is that its complications seem nonstop. . . Ms. Groff’s inexperience shows in this overcrowding, as it does in overly mellifluous turns of phrase (“the deer darting startled through the dark”). And she tries out more voices and documents than she can comfortably create. The whole find-your-real-dad scavenger hunt is a little contrived. . . But Groff has concocted such a rich trove of source documents – portraits, old letters, journal entries, and reminiscences by characters lifted from Fenimore Cooper's writings – that readers will be too busy gleefully burrowing into the fictitious past she has created to mind. [A] delightful and challenging novel. . . Groff breathes new life into her vivid characters, even those on loan from Cooper's novels. Prix et récompensesDistinctions
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER -- the debut novel by the acclaimed author of Fates and Furies. "The day I returned to Templeton steeped in disgrace, the fifty-foot corpse of a monster surfaced in Lake Glimmerglass." So begins The Monsters of Templeton, a novel spanning two centuries: part contemporary story of a girl's search for her father; part historical novel; and part ghost story. In the wake of a disastrous love affair with her older, married archaeology professor at Stanford, brilliant Wilhelmina Cooper arrives back at the doorstep of her hippie mother-turned-born-again-Christian's house in Templeton, NY, a storybook town her ancestors founded that sits on the shores of Lake Glimmerglass. Upon her arrival, a prehistoric monster surfaces in the lake bringing a feeding frenzy to the quiet town, and Willie learns she has a mystery father, one her mother kept secret Willie's entire life. The beautiful, broody Willie is told that the key to her biological father's identity lies somewhere in her family's history, so she buries herself in the research of her twisted family tree and finds more than she bargained for as a chorus of voices from the town's past--some sinister, all fascinating--rise up around her to tell their side of the story. In the end, dark secrets come to light, past and present day are blurred, and old mysteries are finally put to rest. The Monsters of Templeton is a fresh, virtuoso performance that has placed Lauren Groff among the best writers of today. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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