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Cargando... All Things Cease to Appear : A novel (edición 2016)por Elizabeth Brundage (Autor)
Información de la obraAll Things Cease to Appear por Elizabeth Brundage
   Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.  zmagic69 | Mar 31, 2023 |   https://www.bookofthemonth.com/referCode/?referCode=6f876dff12912 How do I even begin to describe this book? What I have been telling my friends is that it is a slow roller that picks up speed and you have no idea where it took off, but it simply did and by the end you don't want to put it down or allow the book to end. This isn't a ghost story. I have to write that to be clear. There is a ghost, but the ghost isn't a major plot point at all, but is part of the overall narrative of the book- All Things Cease to Appear. The book is mainly about a husband, wife, and their child who have moved into the home of a couple who died, yet who's three kids still live nearby. It is also about small town life, cheating, lying, murder, and a whole slew of other things. The book's title really is the overall narrative arc- all things cease to appear- hopes, dreams, a return to simpler times, etc. Those things will not return. The book is also about women and how one man can ruin lives, while he is pursuing his own selfish needs. It is also about the women's husbands and their life together. I am intentionally not trying to spoil anything, but I found the book very slow in the beginning and almost put it down, but I am glad I stuck with it because by the last 100 pages, I didn't want it to end, but I kept reading it well into the night. I will join the others who stated the ending is somewhat disappointing, not due to the writing, but do to the conclusion of the narrative. It is an ending that is appropriate and is somewhat real, but there was a desire for a different ending. Those that finish it will know what I mean. I have recommended this book and would give it about 4.5 stars. Not a perfect book, but a great one. (  ) Nerdyrev1 | Nov 23, 2022 | Late one winter afternoon in upstate New York, George Clare comes home to find his wife killed and their three-year-old daughter alone—for how many hours?—in her room across the hall. He had recently, begrudgingly, taken a position at a nearby private college (far too expensive for local kids to attend) teaching art history, and moved his family into a tight-knit, impoverished town that has lately been discovered by wealthy outsiders in search of a rural idyll. George is of course the immediate suspect—the question of his guilt echoing in a story shot through with secrets both personal and professional. While his parents rescue him from suspicion, a persistent cop is stymied at every turn in proving Clare a heartless murderer. And three teenage brothers (orphaned by tragic circumstances) find themselves entangled in this mystery, not least because the Clares had moved into their childhood home, a once-thriving dairy farm. The pall of death is ongoing, and relentless; behind one crime there are others, and more than twenty years will pass before a hard kind of justice is finally served. A rich and complex portrait of a psychopath and a marriage, this is also an astute study of the various taints that can scar very different families, and even an entire community. Elizabeth Brundage is an essential talent who has given us a true modern classic. I RECEIVED AN ARC FROM THE PUBLISHER. THANK YOU. My Review: A domestic thriller, and a darn unsuspenseful one. There is, as we're all aware, a long tradition in fiction and in fact of men who kill their wives for what seem to outsiders as heartbreakingly trivial reasons. This is one of those stories. It's not in the least mysterious that the murderer is the murderer. It's the reason I didn't give the book more stars. I gave it as many as I did because Author Brundage writes about how the people in a small, gentrifying community deal with the end of their safety net of decent jobs and affordable housing. The influx of yuppies from the nearby rich-kids' college who just are not like them at all adds stress to the community. The families who figure in the murder case are tied together by their state of limbo. No one ever is charged for the crime. Although, I remind you, there's really just no doubt at all in the experienced reader's mind who did the crime. Anyway. The way the author slowly, slowly brings the beginnings of justice to the town's unresolved wounds makes it a worthwhile read. (  ) richardderus | Aug 26, 2022 | Right away the novel lets you know that Catherine Clare has been murdered in her home, her four-year-old daughter, Frannie, was there at the time of the murder and for hours after, and her husband, George, may have done it. Flashbacks make up most of the rest of the book. Was George, in fact, guilty? Is he a sociopath, maybe a serial killer, or did he just cheat on his wife? I heard that the movie concentrates on supernatural happenings in the old farmhouse where Catherine, George, and Frannie lived much more than the novel does. Maybe that's why their titles differ. But throughout the flashbacks in ALL THINGS CEASE TO APPEAR, Catherine did suspect that the ghost of the woman who had previously lived there was in the same room with her. My impression of the novel is that characterization, especially of George but also of Catherine, his colleagues, and their neighbors in the small town of Chosen, far exceeds the supernatural in importance. You’ll learn more and more about each but especially about George as the book continues. And the more you learn, the worse you’ll feel about him. Although I loved this book, I still say that the author was inconsiderate not to include quotation marks. (  ) techeditor | May 6, 2022 | ) Sunandsand | Apr 30, 2022 |
...as much as anything, this is a character sketch: of a marriage, a sociopath, a family destroyed by the economy, the things we do for love — all finely drawn within the confined environment of a creaking old farmhouse on a homestead in a town far, far away.... All of the [characters] are sympathetic and suspicious in equal measure, a result of Brundage’s ability to peel away the onionskin layers of emotion that define any relationship. As the clues accumulate and the killer is revealed, the truth becomes both horrifying and inevitable. In the end, justice is done and redemption found, though not as one might expect, which makes the book all the more satisfying. A book as lyrically written, frequently shocking and immensely moving as Elizabeth Brundage’s “All Things Cease to Appear” transcends categorization. Is the book a “police procedural”? In part. A “gothic mystery”? Incidentally. A novel of “psychological suspense”? In spades. A chilling case-study of a serial soul-killer? A “Spoon River”-style panorama of small-town life in upstate New York in the late 1970s? A parable of good and evil informed by the theological notions of the 18th-century Swedish mystic Emanuel Swedenborg? Yes, yes and yes. It was, perhaps, for such extraordinary books that the term “literary thriller” was coined. ALL THINGS CEASE TO APPEAR is an expertly crafted thriller, with vivid, dramatic set pieces (a car chase on a dark country road; an ominous nighttime boat ride) that seem ready for the big-screen treatment. But it’s also a skilled and intelligent work of literary fiction.... ALL THINGS CEASE TO APPEAR is as insightful as it is suspenseful. Brundage’s thoughtful exploration of how people find themselves trapped in lives that don’t seem quite their own won’t satisfy all readers, especially those looking for a more traditional thriller. But those as interested in unraveling the mysteries of the human heart as they are in figuring out whodunit won’t be able to put this book down. Here’s the thing about creepy old farmhouses: they’re full of ghosts, and ax murderers lurk in the tree line.... There’s no shortage of suspects on the mortal plane, to say nothing of the supernatural. Part procedural, part horror story, part character study, Brundage’s literate yarn is full of telling moments: George is like a “tedious splinter” in Catherine’s mind, while George dismisses her concerns that maybe they shouldn’t be living in a place where horrible things have happened with, “As usual, you’re overreacting.” But more, and better, Brundage carries the arc of her story into the future, where the children of the nightmare, scarred by poverty, worry, meth, Iraq, are bound up in its consequences, the weight of all those ghosts, whether real or imagined, upon them forever. Brundage’s (bestselling author of The Doctor’s Wife) searing, intricate novel epitomizes the best of the literary thriller, marrying gripping drama with impeccably crafted prose, characterizations, and imagery....Moving fluidly between viewpoints and time periods, Brundage’s complex narrative requires and rewards close attention. Succeeding as murder mystery, ghost tale, family drama, and love story, her novel is both tragic and transcendent. PremiosDistincionesListas de sobresalientes
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HTML:A dark, riveting, beautifully written book??by "a brilliant novelist," according to Richard Bausch??that combines noir and the gothic in a story about two families entwined in their own unhappiness, with, at its heart, a gruesome and unsolved murder Late one winter afternoon in upstate New York, George Clare comes home to find his wife killed and their three-year-old daughter alone??for how many hours???in her room across the hall. He had recently, begrudgingly, taken a position at a nearby private college (far too expensive for local kids to attend) teaching art history, and moved his family into a tight-knit, impoverished town that has lately been discovered by wealthy outsiders in search of a rural idyll. George is of course the immediate suspect??the question of his guilt echoing in a story shot through with secrets both personal and professional. While his parents rescue him from suspicion, a persistent cop is stymied at every turn in proving Clare a heartless murderer. And three teenage brothers (orphaned by tragic circumstances) find themselves entangled in this mystery, not least because the Clares had moved into their childhood home, a once-thriving dairy farm. The pall of death is ongoing, and relentless; behind one crime there are others, and more than twenty years will pass before a hard kind of justice is finally served. A rich and complex portrait of a psychopath and a marriage, this is also an astute study of the various taints that can scar very different families, and even an entire community. Elizabeth Brundage is an essential talent who has given us a true modern classic. From the Hardcove No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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This book didn't work for me at all. Here are the reasons why
1. I hate the new trend of creative writing where the author doesn't use quotation marks to indicate someone is talking. So you never know is what is being described: is it narration, third person dialogue, or who is saying what.
2. You know who the killer is after the first chapter. The other 390 pages are excessive wordy filler most of which adds nothing to the story.
3. Riddled with cliches, especially regarding the Hale brothers, and George.
4. The book as it turns out had the ultimate kiss of death for me, it had a Stephen King recommendation on the back of the book, that I somehow missed or failed to take into consideration. Stephen King books are usually good. Books recommended by Stephen King are almost always awful.
The was nothing scary, gothic, mysterious about this book. It was just boring. (