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Cargando... The Escher Twist (2002)por Jane Langton
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I've read and enjoyed a number of Jane Langton's Homer Kelly mysteries but this one left me cold. A bit of a clunker, with plot lines that I never really followed and a grand wrapping up that seemed to make very little sense out of it all. Better than most of the Kelly series. The M.C. Escher angle was irresistible to me and the Escher illustrations throughout were, in fact, illustrative and illuminating, giving another way (besides the text narrative) to view the story. When the story briefly veers into fantasy (Leonard going into reversal) it's less convincing, and although the circular-unending-funeral-procession theme works fairly well when filtered through the slightly dotty landlady's point of view, it doesn't fly from the perspective of Leonard the scientist. It seemed to me that the author was attempting experimental fiction, which would have been better in a short story with characters that had not previously featured in more conventional narrative. These episodes were mercifully few and not difficult to ignore. In the end, it was an enjoyable book to read and I appreciated Mary Kelly's larger role in this episode. This is a better than average Homer Kelly story, in fact it is as much Mary as it is Homer, a development that Homer reflects upon as an indication of age and experience. There is a ‘young love’ story wrapped into the obligatory murder mystery and with the by-plot of the Kellys considering selling their house and moving to Cambridge, it seems as if Langton may be thinking of that certain stage of life. The Escher theme is well-crafted and closely aligned with the orientation of the protagonist, Leonard, a crystallographer and his would-be girlfriend. The setting, and the story hinges on an Escher image that suggests a meeting of two worlds, as if through a mirror. There is a bit of the supernatural as Leonard seemingly flips from one side of the ‘picture’ to the other, but this twist doesn’t really get off the ground in terms of either driving the plot or creating suspense, though the idea is intriguing. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Pertenece a las seriesHomer Kelly Mystery (16)
With her sense of "abandon and play," Langton sends her scholar/sleuth Homer Kelly up the down staircase on a labyrinthine search for a missing art lover (Eudora Welty). Leonard Sheldrake knows little about Frieda except that he loves her. A Harvard professor and admirer of the bizarre engravings of M. C. Escher, Leonard is visiting a Cambridge exhibition of the artist's work when he meets Frieda and falls instantly in love. As they trade remarks about the artwork, he learns a few brief things about her. Though young, she is a widow, an orphan, and has a terrible secret in her past. It is only after she vanishes that he realizes he didn't even learn her last name. Leonard enlists fellow professor Homer Kelly, the amateur sleuth, to help find this beguiling young widow. But as they comb Cambridge for the woman in the green coat, Homer and his friend find themselves slipping into a mysterious labyrinth, whose treacherous dimensions are as impossible to grasp as anything dreamed up by the late, great M. C. Escher himself. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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