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Cargando... Dusty's Winter: from The Maeve Binchy Writers' Club (A Vintage Short)por Maeve Binchy
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HTML:Dusty grows up caring for her family, and, once she is old enough to organize her own affairs, she takes great care to move out of her parents?? home. Soon, Dusty is able to accomplish a great deal: she works long hours and is made senior partner at her firm, she keeps her own flat, and she falls hopelessly and irresponsibly in love with a married man. But, when her father telephones to report some disturbing news, Dusty must return home for the winter. There, heartbroken but still dutiful, Dusty finally reunites with her oldest friends. First published in the US as part of her encouraging book of missives to aspiring writers, The Maeve Binchy Writers?? Club, ??Dusty??s Winter? is essential Maeve. Inspiring and down-to-earth, her stories are full of the stuff of everyday life. Ireland??s ??best-loved writer of her generation,? Maeve Binchy often wrote about ordinary life in small-town Ireland, and she is fondly remembered for the warmth and generosity of her prose. Maeve Binchy has received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the British Book Awards in 1999 and the Irish PEN/A.T. Cross Award in 2007 and is the author of many bestselling books including Maeve??s Times, Chestnut Street, and A Week in Winter. & No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I can't believe how much oompf Binchy managed to pack in just 38 pages. I honestly can't believe this story was that short.
We find ourselves immersed in the story of Dusty and her family. The story centers on Dusty as a child and follows her until she is 27 years of age. Dusty's family is not big on displays of affection or being up front about all things. The youngest child in a family where her two older brothers were already well on their way to adulthood sets her apart from her family. I'm not going to lie though, at times I didn't like the character of Dusty. What I did enjoy reading though is that she in the end realizes her judgments about certain things was not correct.
The writing was top-notch though I thought it was a little bit funny this book was taking place during the 1980s for the most part in Ireland. It would have been great to have this story look back at Dusty when she was an older woman and thinking on how she was raised, and how she changed through the years.
The flow at times I thought was a little bit off. I think it was because I could feel at times Binchy wanting to elaborate more on a subject. There are odd places like that in the book here and there. Binchy chooses what to add more details in some odd places, but not in places I would have wished to see more detail about if that makes sense. (