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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. After graduating from Vassar, American poet Elizabeth Bishop went to France with two college friends. In Paris, 7 a.m. author Liza Wieland imagines what might have happened to Bishop as a young woman in Paris in 1937. In the novel, Bishop forms relationships of various kinds with a young German woman who is in Paris because Berlin is no longer safe for her and an older woman who lost her own daughter some years earlier. There's a lot going on in this novel, from Nazis, to lesbians, to an amputated hand, to rescuing babies, to hanging out with everyone from Sylvia Beach to Marianne Moore. Yet it never feels over-packed. Wieland's writing is almost dreamy and stays focused on how Bishop perceives what's happening around her, rather than what is actually happening, which puts some of the events at a sort of remove, even as they're happening, while intensifying others. There is a sense of slowly rising danger in this novel, not for Bishop and her American friends, who return to the US safely, although not without having been changed, but for the Europeans they encounter. Not all the Germans in France are Nazis, some are Germans who have found Germany unsafe for a variety of reasons. And while the heart of the story centers on secretly moving Jewish babies into the safety of a Catholic convent in Paris, the reader remains aware of what tenuous protection that will prove to be. There are a number of novels out there imagining the details of the lives of famous literary and historical personages and a disproportionate number of them take place in Paris. But Paris, 7 a.m. is different enough and written so well as to be well worth reading. The author, perhaps in an attempt to have her book look and sound like journal entries, does not use quotation marks. She also doesn’t give much, if any, information about the characters, real and imagined, she introduces. Because of these two things – no quotation marks and no fleshing out of characters – the reader is forced to work hard to get from the first page to the last page of this novel. Added to this mix are unexplained time jumps and unexplained location changes, and the book becomes a chore to read. All the above being said, this book does give a plausible explanation for the three-week lack of entries in Bishop’s journal for the period. There are pages in this book that create a dreamlike feel and portray Bishop’s internal struggles with lyricism. If you love Elizabeth Bishop’s poetry, don’t mind working hard just to finish a book, and love historical fiction, this book may just be for you. Thanks to Simon & Schuster and Edelweiss for an eArc. Let me just start by saying that I am usually a big fan of historical fiction, but this one wasn’t doing it for me. The story follows Elizabeth Bishop, an up and coming poet,as she goes on a overseas trip to Paris, France. Among her adventures, she is unwittingly drawn into helping in a secret Underground Railroad that is involved in helping Jewish babies escape the increasingly difficult situation in WW11 era Germany. Considering that this is kinda the primary climax of the novel, I felt like it was kinda missing some emphasis. The narrative style was somewhat bothersome to me also. The novel is written in a private journal style. I would have liked to see a more emotional connection with the protagonist and the various characters that she comes into contact with. Novel provided by Netgalley. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"A marvel of lost innocence" (O, The Oprah Magazine) that reimagines three life-changing weeks poet Elizabeth Bishop spent in Paris amidst the imminent threat of World War II. June 1937. Elizabeth Bishop, still only a young woman and not yet one of the most influential poets of the 20th century, arrives in France with her college roommates. They are in search of an escape, and inspiration, far from the protective world of Vassar College where they were expected to find an impressive husband and a quiet life. But the world is changing, and as they explore the City of Lights, the larger threats of fascism and occupation are looming. There, they meet a community of upper-crust expatriates who not only bring them along on a life-changing adventure, but also into an underground world of rebellion that will quietly alter the course of Elizabeth's life forever. Sweeping and stirring, Paris, 7 A.M. imagines 1937--the only year Elizabeth, a meticulous keeper of journals--didn't fully chronicle--in vivid detail and brings us from Paris to Normandy where Elizabeth becomes involved with a group rescuing Jewish "orphans" and delivering them to convents where they will be baptized as Catholics and saved from the impending horror their parents will face. Both poignant and captivating, Paris, 7 A.M. is an "achingly introspective marvel of lost innocence" (O, The Oprah Magazine) and a beautifully rendered take on the formative years of one of America's most celebrated female poets. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Even though I realize this is a well written book, it really didn’t draw me in. It’s written in the third person present tense, which I found a bit off putting. Besides that, I was never pulled into the story, and never took to any of the characters. Wieland’s writing has a dreamy quality, like watching the story through a veil of chiffon. I can only give it three stars. ( )