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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I am entirely uncertain what to make of this. It is set up as a letter written by a middle aged woman to someone she hasn;t seen in 15 years. Through the course of the letter, you discover who the woman is and what the absent person has stolen from her. Or did she, was it more she was allowed to steat this? It is very winding and continually uncovers layers of meaning, as the letter progresses, over months, the back story becomes more filled in, but I;m not sure it necessarily makes it any more comprehensible. On one level it was very sefl absorbed, having little considereation for the recipent, and yet it somehow kept me reading. I'm not sure any of those involved came across as terribly likeable in various ways, with the letter writer actually becomming less perfect, but more human, as the letter progressed. I'm not sure that I would want someone to disect my life in quite this much forensic detail, as I fear we would all come out of it somewhat less than we imagine ourselves. The writing was stylish, the surmise somewhat odd, the whole somewhat unsatisfying. we don;t actually achoeve any resolution and I'm not sure that this helps the letter writer either. Because of the way the novel is structured (as a letter to another character), the very fine writing only made me frustrated with the narrator. “You are a fabulous writer who exhibits a great deal of self-awareness,” I wanted to say, “so maybe get up and do something with your life instead of spending several months reliving the past?” (True enough, the protagonist says, “On the whole I do not think of you anymore,” but since a two-hundred page letter follows that declaration, it is difficult to believe.) It is perhaps a tribute to Harvey’s skill as a writer that the book evoked such strong feelings of exasperation in me; there were moment when I wanted to reach into the pages and shake some sense into the protagonist. And yet the book left me frustrated: is this the best use of Harvey’s talent? All those beautiful sentences in service of this story? sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML: From acclaimed Orange Prize and Guardian First Book Award finalist Samantha Harvey, a stunning novel of female friendship, betrayal, and revenge "You were going to work your way into my marriage and you were going to call its new three-way shape holy," writes the unnamed narrator of Dear Thief. The thief is Nina, or Butterfly, who disappeared eighteen years earlier and who is being summoned by this letter, this bomb, these recollections, revisions, accusations, and confessions. "Sometimes I imagine, out of sheer playfulness, that I am writing this as a kind of defence for having murdered and buried you under the patio." Dear Thief is a letter to an old friend, a song, a jewel, and a continuously surprising triangular love story. Samantha Harvey writes with a dazzling blend of fury and beauty about the need for human connection and the brutal vulnerability that need exposes. "While I write my spare hand might be doing anything for all you know; it might be driving a pin into your voodoo stomach." Dear Thief is a rare novel that traverses the human heart in a striking and indelible way. .No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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