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Cargando... Catherwoodpor Marly Youmans
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I love this book with an unreasonable passion. I can't explain it; it's a simple narrative, not terribly likely, a single arc. It's just that every word seems true, despite the unlikeliness of the plot. Youmans has never written anything else like it. It seems to have arrived like a visitation from a parallel reality. News of those is valuable to me. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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While returning home from visiting friends in a neighboring community in 17th-century New York Colony, Catherwood & her infant daughter become lost & spend seven months in the wilderness in this gripping survival story. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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There is, it seems to me, a great symbolic arc to this story, along with the very realistic one of loss and desperation. I did not want the story to end as abruptly as it did, but I realized that the object of the tale had been achieved, and knowing more about what happened beyond that point might diminish, rather than enhance, the impact.
In the end, this book is hard to describe. It has a fairytale quality or an ancient folklore vibe. It has a poetic element that has nothing to do with rhythm, but with flow. The second half of it reads like it could be sung in Homeric ballad style. I seldom read anything that I feel is completely unique, but I would dare say this is.
The other odd thing about this book is that I stumbled upon it while just scanning through a list of books, never heard of it or the author, and picked it out of a list of some 200 titles. It was as if it called to me to read it, and read it now. I had no intention of doing so…my list of planned reads is long and pressing, and the time for reading this year is closing in. Then I came across it again in a friend’s 2022 plans. I felt compelled, so I abandoned the plans and read it today. Right book, right time. Occasionally, the literature gods smile upon us.
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