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Cargando... Serial Monogamypor Kate Taylor
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I received a copy of Serial Monogamy through the Goodreads Giveaway program in exchange for an honest review. This was a beautifully written book that toggles between a present-day writer/mother/wife battling cancer and her fictionalized serial of Charles Dickens' mistress as it is published weekly in the newspaper. The author does a wonderful job of imagining what life must have been like as a woman and lover of a prolific writer in 1800s England; I was engrossed in the story from the first page, and appreciated Taylor's ability to animate each of her characters in a way that made me feel emotionally invested in each of them. I don't think this book is really aimed at an audience like me (30 something year old man), but I won it from a goodreads giveaway, so I figured I'd give it a chance. The Charles Dickens chapters were alright, but when a couple of them were from the point of view of Dickens wife, it kind of confused me, they didn't really fit in.The chapters about the cheating and cancer and such never really held my interest, but the whole book is well written, and I'm sure lots of people will thoroughly enjoy it. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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What happens when life and ambition collide with betrayal and disease? Sharon's comfortable existence as a novelist, wife and mother to twin daughters is shattered by a cancer diagnosis, and by her husband's affair with a graduate student. The only relief in sight is a new writing project--an engrossing serialized novel based on the story of the 19th-century actress Nelly Ternan, the young mistress of the aging Charles Dickens. Chronicling this infamous affair, Sharon is forced to examine with new eyes the secrets and struggles at the heart of domestic life, as she strives to mend her own marriage and heal her body. This surprising and intricate novel shifts between Sharon's Toronto and Nelly's Victorian England in interwoven chapters, asking deep questions about what really makes up the story of a relationship and a life. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Thank you to Penguin Random House who were kind enough to award me this advance reading copy. ( )