Barbara Quick
Autor de LAS VIRGENES DE VIVALDI
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: Barbara Quick
Obras de Barbara Quick
The Benefits of Belonging 2 copias
Vivaldi's Virgins 2 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1954-05-25
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Los Angeles, California, USA
San Francisco, California, USA
County Cork, Ireland
Alaska, USA
Berkeley, California, USA - Educación
- University of California, Santa Cruz
- Ocupaciones
- poet
journalist
writer
dancer - Relaciones
- Quick, Julian (son)
Roden, Wayne (spouse)
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 10
- Miembros
- 510
- Popularidad
- #48,631
- Valoración
- 3.5
- Reseñas
- 26
- ISBNs
- 29
- Idiomas
- 4
Well then. I guess I won't be expecting a happily ever after will I?
The author shines when it comes to descriptions. Her description of 14th century Italy, of Alessandra's aristocratic lifestyle, of the school in Bologna...this is all meticulously detailed to the point where I would be hard pressed to remember what century I live in. Its not an exaggeration to say I almost felt like I lived in that time period at times.
Unfortunately this didn't translate to the characters and motivations. Alessandra is understood quite well--Quick is at pains to have the reader understand the yearning Alessandra has to learn and become educated. The measures she takes (disguising herself as a boy to attend the Anatomy school in Bologna) so she doesn't have to live the same life as everyone else. Alessandra is well outlined, given the right tools to prove herself, but in the end Quick doesn't spend enough time on any one certain detail beyond that yearning.
And the other characters...truth be told I can't remember any of their names. I read the book about a month ago, but none of the names stuck with me. Which is a product of how bland they were. Even her stepmother, who disliked her so thoroughly, was given such a broad stroke for characterization that I'm hard-pressed to remember why she disliked her.
Whether its meant to be a historical fiction or fictional biography, the book didn't give me a good sense of Alessandra the girl. It gave me a marvelous sense of the problems she faced as a 14th Century aristocrat, but not much about the person behind the name.… (más)