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Cargando... The Meaning of Gracepor Deborah Forster
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The new novel from the Miles Franklin shortlisted author of the much-loved The Book of Emmett. Shortlisted for The Age Fiction prize and the Colin Roderick Prize'Mum is the reference point. If you ever get confused about anything, there she is, waiting with all her knowledge of you.'Grace Fisher, mother of three, one day decides her husband is a sore disappointment and moves the family from Melbourne to a coastal village in Victoria. But Ian's slow dissolution on the couch masked a depression that will harrow him into an early grave, leaving the kids with a lifetime of questioning- what happened to their father; how did he get so sad? Between their father's demise and Grace's hardscrabble existence working at a local bakery, each child is left to find meaning on their own. Edie, the eldest child, locks herself into a romantic ideal so lofty that it can't help but fail. The middle child, Juliet, struts and careens through life, filling it only with what she can seduce, steal and manipulate. Sibling rivalry between sisters proves the slowest and fiercest of burns. Love comes easily for Ted, the youngest, but when his wife abandons him to raise two daughters on his own, the perils of fatherhood are laid bare.When Grace, the distant, imperfect hub of the family, is diagnosed with terminal cancer, the siblings are forced to confront each other as adults, and come to understand their mother.Written with her hallmark warmth, humour and deftness of observation, Deborah Forster's follow-up novel to the Miles Franklin shortlisted The Book of Emmett is a moving story of the loves and rivalries that burn at the heart of every family, and the meaning that comes from it. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Forster’s great strength lies in characterisation, and in this novel as in its predecessor she focuses on the dysfunctional family. At the beginning of the novel the estranged members of the Fisher family need to come together because Grace, mother to two adult daughters and a son, is – after a brief remission – advised that the cancer is back. At Grace’s bedside in the hospital that night is loyal, reliable, stay-at-home Edie who has had more than her fair share of troubles, and it falls to her to ring her absentee sister Juliet – who has had more than her fair share of life’s good times, including running away to New York with Edie’s husband. When the social worker suggests a hospice, Juliet won’t countenance it, and Edie caves in as she always has, knowing full well that neither Juliet nor their immature brother Ted will be there to help. There is no father. A sad, hopeless man whose depression haunted the children’s young lives until Grace had had enough and left him, Ian committed suicide some years ago.
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