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Chargement... Under the Eye of the Stormpar John Hersey
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Dr. Tom Medlar's sailboat, the Harmony, is his pride and joy, and the focus of more lavish and meticulous care than he affords to either his career or his marriage. But then one day Tom takes his wife, Audrey, and their friends, Flick and Dottie Hamden, out for a pleasure cruise and into the unexpected path of a hurricane. As the deadly storm rages around them, the fault lines in the friendships and marriages begin to crack, and John Hersey's riveting adventure story rapidly becomes something deeper and more unsettling. Widely praised on its initial publication in 1967, Under the Eye of the Storm remains a masterpiece of psychological fiction from one of the most accomplished authors of the twentieth century. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Hersey’s books are hit of miss for me. He has some great ones (Hiroshima and A Bell for Adano) and some not-so-great ones (A Single Pebble and Letters to the Alumni). This one fell right in the middle for me. It started out slow, introduced some interesting ideas, ran on for over 100 pages without a break, and introduced some more interesting ideas in the last chapter. The symbolism and other literary devices were pretty good, but the structure wasn’t as good. The 100 page chapter about their experiences between the time the hurricane first hit and the time they reached the eye of the storm really started to get boring after a while, and this made it hard to pay attention to some of the important things that showed up every dozen pages or so. Overall, the good and bad parts of the book kind of canceled each other out and left me thinking, “So what?” ( )