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Cargando... Latitudes of Melt (edición 2002)por Joan Clark
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Magnificent setting! Both the location itself and the descriptions employed to conjure it. The baby found adrift on an ice floe – fantastical improbability though it be – was the start of an interesting family saga. The child is raised by the family of the fisherman who found her, in a tiny seaside village on Newfoundland's south shore. Her childhood is covered very briefly, then her marriage, with most of the book covering her adult life, her children's adult lives, and then regressing to her birth parents' lives and the circumstances surrounding her drifting. Along the way, I learned a great deal about icebergs, lighthouses, Newfoundland, and small fishing villages. I enjoyed reading about this foundling, her wanderings along the shore, belonging outdoors, the wild part of her nature, captured in her scrapbooks. This section just captures her life: I seldom look in the mirror. What is the point of looking when I'm not there? Since the day I took a long look at myself in the jagged kitchen mirror, {as a child} I've understood the futility of expecting to see myself in a reflection. I know no more about my appearance now than I did then and have gone all these years hanging clothes on my serviceable body, putting socks and shoes on my wandering feet, without ever knowing what I looked like, and it hasn't made any significant difference to my life. If this book was a hot drink, it would be a huge mug of the very thickest cocoa. Tasting so flavorful, and going down so smoothly, its just an enjoyable experience. For me, though, it started getting cold and losing flavor during the last quarter of the book, which reading was tedium for me. Still, the rest of the story more than made up for those parts which I found less interesting. It was still a picture of a full life in all its phases, and extremely well captured. Well worth the read. (3.7/5) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Found by a fisherman on an ice floe as an infant, Aurora is believed to be a changeling by the superstitious residents of Newfoundland, and it is not until she is an old woman that the truth of her origins is revealed. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The book tells the life of a woman, Born Annie Rose and renamed Aurora after her rescue as a little child. Nobody knows where she comes from and she is so content of her present life that she doesn't look for the other one. Only after her niece Sheila looks for her tracks back in Ireland, the truth about her origin is fully revealedand Aurora can have her Birthday's Party surrounded by her loving family, except for her late beloved husband Tom.
Played both in Newfoundland and Ireland, this book creates and amazing link with some of the great Canadian ancestors.
An awkward change in the narration:
pag.266 "She (Mary, Aurora's mother) survived the sinking and moved to the States. In any case she had no child."
pag. 305 "..... I mean, the wreck is her mother's (Mary) grave."
pag. 328 "....He (Stan, Aurora's son) thinks about his grandmother (Mary) who died in these waters"
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