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Cargando... An Imaginative Experience (1994)por Mary Wesley
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InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I really enjoyed this book. Another winner culled from Nancy Pearl's Book Lust lists. ( ) Kind of Literature, kind of Romance... ?áI loved Julia, and the Patels, and Sylvester; I was interested in Rebecca, and Janet; I was appalled by Tim, Maurice, Giles, and Clodagh.., just as the author wanted me to be. ?áI guess I'd say it's a bit like a slightly darker, more spare, more ambitious Maeve Binchy? ?áAnyway, I enjoyed it, and have already ordered the only other by the author that is avl in my library system, A Sensible Life. ?áFrom there I'll see whether or not I want to keep tracking down more of Wesley's novels. Falling in love is, in A.N. Wilson's view, the most imaginative experience we can have. This book lets us down because it is over-imagined; the malign characters are too much so, and the hero, Sylvester, is rendered more attractive than he is because of this. The plot is more far-fetched than is good for the story. Nevertheless, this is a Mary Wesley novel, and it maintains her good reputation, but it is not the best of those novels of hers that I have read. One of the best novels I've read; pretty certain I love it. Wesley is a wizard in showing the gist and vulnerability of her characters; making them instantly real and either likeable or unlikeable. I do hope Rebecca (I actually knew a Rebecca VERY like this one) gets her hands on Maurice. It'll do him good. Wondrous, witty and joyful! sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
A traveller on an InterCity train returning to London smells the burn of the breaks as it hisses to a stop in the middle of the countryside. He sees a white-faced woman leap from the train and race to the aid of a sheep stranded on its back, unable to rise, in a field. Righting it, she turns, and he sees her face is full of tragedy. And not, he thinks, because she pulled the emergency lever and will face retribution. Considering tragedies of his own, he does not intrude, but the image lodges in his mind: a strange but familiar despair, unable to ignore the desperation it recognizes in others. From these seeds Mary Wesley draws out a plot of unforgettable impactof loss, of release, of a necessarily comic acceptance of fate, of lovethe "imaginative experience." Rich in character and wit, and powerfully moving, this is a novel of the heart's pain and deliverance." No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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