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Cargando... Ratpor Fernanda Eberstadt
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Main character of this book is a teenage girl living in the Pyrenees-Orientales area of France - sort of on the Mediterranean, near the border w/Spain. Her family existence is a few steps above hand-to-mouth, but her father, who she's never met is the son of an English celebrity model a la Twiggy. I found the world that the story takes place in to be the most intriguing part of the story. ( )
Whether she’s trying to coax her father out of his unease, sticking up for her mournful brother, or lending a hand to her well-meaning mess of a mother, the ballsy, resourceful Rat is a kind of Neal Cassady of the autoroute; and Eberstadt elegantly moves her through very different social milieux, from the flea markets of down-and-out rural France to the artsy -upper middle class of London, with a sympathy for her character that avoids both the condescension and the romance that plague so much writing about teenagers. It’s a long way from Park Avenue: the beautiful, desolate, casually despoiled landscape of the Pyrénées-Orientales in southernmost France, where Fernanda Eberstadt moved with her husband and children in 1998 and where she has set her latest novel....
Fifteen-year-old Celia Bonnet, nicknamed "Rat," lives a peaceful life with her mother, Vanessa, a free-spirited local beauty, and Morgan, the nine-year-old orphan they have taken in. Their farmhouse compound, nestled just north of the Spanish Catalan border, is surrounded by artichoke fields and glittering ocean, cliffs where they can spy down on the rich tourists below. But when Vanessa falls for a dangerous new boyfriend, Rat must leave this place she loves. nbsp; Together with Morgan, Rat sets out for London to find the father she has never met and the man who might finally explain to Rat where she belongs. An enthralling novel with a luminous sense of place, Rat is the story of a bold, rousing heroine for our times. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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