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Cargando... Dinner with Edward: A Story of an Unexpected Friendship (edición 2017)por Isabel Vincent (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. "The Story of a Remarkable Friendship" is the subtitle of this short and heartwarming book about the relationship between Edward and author Isabel, and it really was a remarkable friendship. Written by Isabel Vincent, investigative reporter for the New York Post, each chapter begins with a menu of the dinner that Edward has prepared for them that evening. The book chronicles the weekly meals and conversations that Edward and Isabel share, but more importantly it describes the support each gives to the other. Edward is a 93-year-old widower who mourns the recent loss of his wife Paula, and Isabel is a middle-aged newly divorced single mother. Both live in New York, a city where people are known for being aloof and detached. Yet through the weekly meals savored together, these two people discuss love and loss, grief and cooking skills. Edward's dinners and philosophy nourish Isabel as she heals from heartache. At the same time Isabel's friendship gives Edward hope and purpose - resulting in a sweetly charming, feel-good memoir. I would have given this 5 stars if recipes had been included. Dinner with Edward is definitely not a great book for Vegetarians with way too much emphasis on preparing meat, though the Apricot soufflé and the scrambled egg recipes are memorable. Also memorable is the bond that develops between Edward and Isobel at the times in their lives when comfort and inspiration were needed for survival. Yet death, sadness, and depression often dominate the mood and plot. Not my favorite book. This book is okay. I have no complaints about the material. I just cannot relate to any of the characters. I think the desired target audience should be anyone who has faced marital struggles or anyone who has special friendships with the elderly. I think I am too young to appreciate the unique friendship between them. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"When Isabel meets Edward, both are at a crossroads: he wants to follow his late wife to the grave, and she is ready to give up on love. Thinking she is merely helping out her friend, Edward's daughter--who lives far away and asked her to check in on her nonagenarian dad in New York--Isabel has no idea that the man in the kitchen baking the sublime roast chicken and light-as-air apricot soufflé will end up changing her life. As Edward and Isabel meet weekly for the glorious dinners that Edward prepares, he shares so much more than his recipes for apple galette or the perfect martini, or even his tips for deboning poultry. Edward is teaching Isabel the luxury of slowing down and taking the time to think through everything she does, to deconstruct her own life, cutting it back to the bone and examining the guts, no matter how messy that proves to be. Dinner with Edward is a book about sorrow and joy, love and nourishment, and about how dinner with a friend can, in the words of M.F.K. Fisher, 'sustain us against the hungers of the world'"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Vincent has a daughter who appears in the story from time to time. It's hard to understand how it was that the daughter, who was nine or ten by that time? was living with her yet she could go out for dinner once a week, or whatever it was, on her own. And it became very difficult to understand, once she found her true love, how she went out to Long Island on Friday to spend the weekends with him. Where did she stash her daughter?
There was no one in the book I would want to get to know, although I wouldn't mind tasting some of that food or living in that apartment on Roosevelt Island or the one overlooking Central Park. ( )