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Random Passage (1991)

por Bernice Morgan

Series: Random Passage (1)

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Forced to flee England, the Andrews family books passage to a fresh start in a distant country, only to discover a barren, inhospitable land at the end of their crossing. To seventeen-year-old Lavinia, uprooted from everything familiar, it seems a fate worse than the one they left behind. Driven by loneliness she begins a journal. Random Passage satisfies the craving for those details that headstones and history books can never give: the real story of our Newfoundland ancestors, of how time and chance brought them to the forbidding shores of a new found land. It is a saga of families and of individuals; of acquisitive Mary Bundle; of charming Ned Andrews, whose thievery has turned his family into exiles; of mad Ida; of Thomas Hutchings, who might be an aristocrat, a holy man, or a murderer; and of Lavinia - who wrote down the truth and lies about them all. Random Passage has been adapted into a CBC miniseries and is now a national bestseller.… (más)
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First of all my copy is titled "Cape Random" not Cap Random.....the notes inside say it was first published as Random Passage..
This is how historical fiction should be done! Every single character is so completely drawn and there are a lot of them! The landscape, the living conditions, the sights, the smells, the customs, traditions, everything is captured so well. Beautiful writing, intriguing storytelling! There is no info in my copy but the author thanks her parents who are of the same name as one of the families in the novel, and the novel reads as if based on a diary, so I am assuming that the story is at least somewhat based on her families' history. Regardless it is a great read! ( )
  Rdra1962 | Aug 1, 2018 |
i wanted to like this. i know very little about nfld, and i have learned more. but too many characters for me to keep track of. interesting characters PERHAPS but really people i don't care about. ( )
  mahallett | Jun 16, 2018 |
I actually really liked this. I didn't think I would, because it has the world's most boring cover, but the more I read, the more it hooked me. I started in a rush, but quickly found that I had to slow down to appreciate the language and the descriptions of the harsh life on the Cape. The plot constantly twists, the characters are interesting, and the structure of the book ensures events are regarded from two points of view. The ending was satisfyingly unpredictable, leaving scope for another chapter (or another novel!) to be written. ( )
  mmacd3814 | May 30, 2016 |
After watching the CBC production of this book and it's sequel a few years back I have been wanting to read it and so glad that I finally did. I even had the privledge of meeting the actress on the cover, Aoife McMahon who briliantly played Mary Bundle. The book elaborates on the characters and their backrounds which of course gives the reader a full rounded perspective on who they are and a much more dynamic aspect to the whole story. Some interesting events take place that were not in the film that I enjoyed discovering. One of my favorite Canadian books! ( )
  LiteraryChanteuse | Jan 27, 2016 |
Random Passage

Historical novel about the courage and raw humanity of outcasts wringing out subsistence living in the barrens of Newfoundland (Cape Random) from mid to late 19th century. I would have liked a map and dates. ( )
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Solche anekdotisch-humorvollen Momente wünscht man sich in diesem Roman häufiger, doch sie bleiben rar. Die Vorzeichen der Geschichte wirken vertauscht: Die eigenwilligen Figuren im "historischen Teil" erscheinen uns lebendig und klar gezeichnet, obwohl sie nur aus den Erinnerungen einer Uralten stammen. Die Hierarchie der Inselbewohner untereinander wird plastisch offengelegt. Die Rahmengeschichte, die den größeren Teil des Romans ausmacht und die Gegenwart, Kindheit und Zukunft von Lavinia Andrews betrifft, lässt dies vermissen. Die Poesie der Erzählung schwindet, der Erzählstil wirkt über weite Strecken trocken und emotionslos. Die Figuren - die Mutter, der Verlobte, der Sohn - bleiben schemenhaft wie die Protagonistin selbst. Auch eine detaillierte Beschreibung ihres Äußeren, die erst im letzten Viertel des 360-Seiten-Romans ihren Platz findet, bringt die Person Lavinia dem Leser nicht näher. Zu unmotiviert geschehen ihre Handlungen, zu wenig schlüssig bleibt ihr Charakter. Es ist irritierend, hier immer wieder auf die Namen von Figuren zu stoßen, die weder für die Handlung noch für die Protagonistin wichtig scheinen. Zudem verwirren die Zeitsprünge des allwissenden Beobachters, der aus der Gegenwart, der Vergangenheit und der Zukunft berichtet und uns trotzdem so viel verschweigt.
añadido por Indy133 | editarliteraturkritik.de, Doris Betzl (Jun 1, 2000)
 

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Forced to flee England, the Andrews family books passage to a fresh start in a distant country, only to discover a barren, inhospitable land at the end of their crossing. To seventeen-year-old Lavinia, uprooted from everything familiar, it seems a fate worse than the one they left behind. Driven by loneliness she begins a journal. Random Passage satisfies the craving for those details that headstones and history books can never give: the real story of our Newfoundland ancestors, of how time and chance brought them to the forbidding shores of a new found land. It is a saga of families and of individuals; of acquisitive Mary Bundle; of charming Ned Andrews, whose thievery has turned his family into exiles; of mad Ida; of Thomas Hutchings, who might be an aristocrat, a holy man, or a murderer; and of Lavinia - who wrote down the truth and lies about them all. Random Passage has been adapted into a CBC miniseries and is now a national bestseller.

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