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Cargando... Stiltsville: A Novel (2010 original; edición 2010)por Susanna Daniel
Información de la obraStiltsville por Susanna Daniel (2010)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Slow start in which I kept asking myself why I kept reading about this fairly mundane family in their well-wrought Miami setting until 3/4 of the way through when events take over and the book becomes much more emotional and interesting as placid days turn to confrontations with crime, weather, health. ( ) A woman's perspective on moving to Miami as a young adult, marrying and raising a family. The stiltsville of the title was a collection of small shacks perched in Miami Bay. Her emotional development is explored as she marries, has a child, contemplates an affair, and becomes a widow when her husband dies of ALS. A lot of local color about Miami. Stiltsville by Susanna Daniel is a roman à clef about a young woman who after a chance meeting in 1969 decides to relocate to the Biscayne Bay area south of Miami. Basically she meets a boy who lives on a house on stilts and is so smitten with both him and his house that she misses enough days of work that's she's laid off. She takes that as a sign to move down to live with her boyfriend full time. As this is women's fiction (and not, say a bodice ripper), the book chronicles their time together. They are married by the second chapter. By the third chapter their daughter has had her first period — and yes, that's in there too. And by the end of the book as you expect things to come to a quiet close, the husband is ill with ALS. Cue the sad, swelling music and roll the credits. I chose the book because of its location. A location can drive the plot, bring out interesting characters. Here, we have hippies and drifters growing old, responsible and I guess, stagnant. The setting could have been ANYWHERE — which depending on your idea of a good novel, is either a good thing, or a frustrating thing. For me, it's the latter. I am not cut out for reading "women's fiction." I'm not sure I'll ever be. If you are a fan of the genre, you'll probably get more satisfaction out of reading it than I did.
This promising first novel will appeal to readers of family stories, literary fiction, and southern writing. Premios
Miami,1969. Frances is captivated by the community of houses built on pilings in the middle of Biscayne Bay. On the dock of one stilt house, she meets Dennis, and turns away from her predictable life. Stiltsville becomes their island oasis-- until suddenly it's gone, and Francis is forced to figure out how to make her family work on dry land. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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