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Chargement... Blame (2010)par Michelle Huneven
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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. Not sure I loved this quite as much as Jamesland (by the same author), but it was so gripping and compelling, great characters, great story. It's really about a 4.5, I'd think. Happy to have found a new beloved writer! Great ending to this book. ( ) This book was way overhyped. Its not a bad book, just not great. To go into a lot of detail about why I didn't find it above average would largely spoil the plot so I'm not going to go there. Suffice it to say after a pretty good first third the book bogs down in the middle third. The end is telegraphed pretty early just missing the details. This book was hyped by some as having aspects of "a page turning thriller." There is absolutely no hint of a thriller here. Patsy is a professor. And she’s a drunk. A serious drunk. So much of a drunk that when she finds herself, yet once again, at the jail, she isn’t shocked to learn that she has run into two people with her car while she was drunk. And killed them. Then remorse sets in. How do her actions that come from her remorse change her life? Brilliant novel.
Huneven’s nervy third novel turns a potentially prosaic plot—vivacious, besotted intellectual blacks out, dries out, does time, changes ways, rebuilds life—on its head via zippy dialogue, smart pacing, and, most vitally, a third-act plot twist that magically avoids contrivance. "Blame" is noteworthy for its sharply drawn characters, most of whom are neither good nor bad but struggling in between. But its true power is in the questions it raises about blame, responsibility and consequence. Implicitly, it asks the reader, what would you do in Patsy's place and could you accept the consequences? Prix et récompensesListes notables
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HTML: Blame is a spellbinding novel of guilt and love, family and shame, sobriety and the lack of it, and the moral ambiguities that ensnare us all. Patsy MacLemoore, a history professor in her late twenties, has a brand-new PhD from Berkeley and a wild streak. She wakes up in jail after an epic alcoholic blackout. "Okay, what'd I do?" she asks her lawyer and jailers. In fact, two Jehovah's Witnesses, a mother and daughter, are dead, run over in Patsy's driveway. Patsy will spend the rest of her life trying to atone. She goes to prison, gets sober, and upon her release finds a new community (and a husband) in AA. She resists temptations, strives for goodness, and becomes a selfless teacher, friend, and wife. Then, decades later, another unimaginable piece of new information turns up. For the reader, it is an electrifying moment, a joyous, fall-off-the-couch-with-surprise moment. For Patsy, it is more complicated. Blame must be reapportioned, her life reassessed. .Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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