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Alice Bliss: A Novel por Laura Harrington
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Alice Bliss: A Novel (edición 2011)

por Laura Harrington (Autor)

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Fiction. Literature. HTML:"Outside the back window Alice can see the outlines of the garden, some of the furrows visible under the snow, stretching away in long thin rows. She can't imagine doing the garden without her dad. It's his thing; she's always thought of herself as his assistant at best. She can't imagine doing anything without her dad and she starts to feel like she can't breathe. And then she looks at him. Just looks at him as he watches the fire with muffin crumbs on his lap.
'I'll write to you.'
'I know, sweetheart.'
'Every day.'"
??From Alice Bliss
When Alice Bliss learns that her father, Matt, is being deployed to Iraq, she's heartbroken. Alice idolizes her father, loves working beside him in their garden, accompanying him on the occasional roofing job, playing baseball. When he ships out, Alice is faced with finding a way to fill the emptiness he has left behind.
Matt will miss seeing his daughter blossom from a tomboy into a full-blown teenager. Alice will learn to drive, join the track team, go to her first dance, and fall in love, all while trying to be strong for her mother, Angie, and take care of her precocious little sister, Ellie. But the smell of Matt is starting to fade from his blue shirt that Alice wears everyday, and the phone calls are never long enough.
Alice Bliss is a profoundly moving coming-of-age novel about love and its many variations??the support of a small town looking after its own; love between an absent father and his daughter; the complicated love between an adolescent girl and her mother; and an exploration of new love with the boy-next-door. These characters' struggles amidst uncertain times echo our own, lending the novel an immediacy and poignancy that is both relevant and real. At once universal and very personal, Alice Bliss is a transforming story about those who are left at home during wartime, and a teenage girl bravely facing the f
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Título:Alice Bliss: A Novel
Autores:Laura Harrington (Autor)
Información:Pamela Dorman Books (2011), Edition: First Edition, 320 pages
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Recommended by Greg and June
  Michelle_abelha | Dec 12, 2021 |
I found this to be really slow and boring ( )
  karenshann | Dec 31, 2019 |
beautiful story about mothers and daughters/family/loss/identity ( )
  MIRI101 | Feb 26, 2019 |
2.5

I wanted to like this book more but it was just OK. I felt removed and distant and the story often read like a screenplay or script instead of a novel. Pages of short snappy dialogue can get old fast. The writing style just didn't resonate with me, to the point where it didn't generate so much as a tear to my eye - and I'm a crier. On a positive note, the book did deal with the effects of war on military families and the importance of family and community. MINOR SPOILER: Some passages shine but I didn't think the sex scene (and how it was handled by the adults) and the f-bombs by the overly precocious 8 yr old did a thing to further the story. ( )
  janb37 | Feb 13, 2017 |
Review: Alice Bliss by Laura Harrington.

Some will say, “just another one of them stories” but every one is unique. It might be a fiction story but it reaches the heights of reality. Anytime you come across the subject matter of someone going off to war is a sad event to go through. The author creates a beautiful heartfelt story about Alice Bliss and her family as there home hero goes to war. It’s a story of love, loss, beginnings and ends.

Alice is a fifteen year old teenager growing up while her father is miles away because of a war, a reality that has happened to many families in recent years. Alice is at the coming of age point experiencing teenage emotions and now there is the added stress of missing her father. She has always been bonded more to her dad and now she must deal with her mother who gets on her nerves and they can’t seem to see eye to eye on anything. Alice feels burden with the responsibilities of caring for her younger sister Ellie, doing the laundry, and making meals because her mom, Angie, can’t seem to get herself motivated to think of anything besides her husband not being there for her. The family is in turmoil day after day waiting for Matt’s calls or letters, which are few and far-in-between.

Everyone tries to handle Matt’s absent as best they can and than the family is hit with bad news. Matt has been taken as a prisoner and the military are doing their best to locate him. While this is going on Angie, the mother throws herself into her work at the expense of her daughters, Ellie being only eight decides to alter her appearance by cutting her hair short and wearing a pair of glasses, black square rimmed that look to big on her face and Alice takes up running to try to escape from all that’s going on around her.

As the story progresses Alice is growing more mature and having to learn what life is all about long before she should have to. She experiences her first embarrassing kiss with her childhood friend Henry who is hopelessly in love with her and Alice struggles with those troublesome teenage emotions.

There are other characters that make the story more connected and supported as the family waits for some good news. I already mentioned Henry who is loyal, funny, charming and always there for Alice and her family. Than we have Uncle Eddie who is different and unique and teaches Alice life lessons on driving a car and the fundamentals of doing maintenance on the car. Plus, there is a grandma character who is wonderful and the kind of grandma that everyone wishes for. She is the one who shoves food at you when you’re sad, and holds you without saying a word…..
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  Juan-banjo | May 31, 2016 |
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Fiction. Literature. HTML:"Outside the back window Alice can see the outlines of the garden, some of the furrows visible under the snow, stretching away in long thin rows. She can't imagine doing the garden without her dad. It's his thing; she's always thought of herself as his assistant at best. She can't imagine doing anything without her dad and she starts to feel like she can't breathe. And then she looks at him. Just looks at him as he watches the fire with muffin crumbs on his lap.
'I'll write to you.'
'I know, sweetheart.'
'Every day.'"
??From Alice Bliss
When Alice Bliss learns that her father, Matt, is being deployed to Iraq, she's heartbroken. Alice idolizes her father, loves working beside him in their garden, accompanying him on the occasional roofing job, playing baseball. When he ships out, Alice is faced with finding a way to fill the emptiness he has left behind.
Matt will miss seeing his daughter blossom from a tomboy into a full-blown teenager. Alice will learn to drive, join the track team, go to her first dance, and fall in love, all while trying to be strong for her mother, Angie, and take care of her precocious little sister, Ellie. But the smell of Matt is starting to fade from his blue shirt that Alice wears everyday, and the phone calls are never long enough.
Alice Bliss is a profoundly moving coming-of-age novel about love and its many variations??the support of a small town looking after its own; love between an absent father and his daughter; the complicated love between an adolescent girl and her mother; and an exploration of new love with the boy-next-door. These characters' struggles amidst uncertain times echo our own, lending the novel an immediacy and poignancy that is both relevant and real. At once universal and very personal, Alice Bliss is a transforming story about those who are left at home during wartime, and a teenage girl bravely facing the f

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