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Cargando... Valentine: A Novel (2020 original; edición 2020)por Elizabeth Wetmore (Autor)
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InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Cruel and unusual in 1970s Texas. ( ) This story, which begins with a brutal crime, is set in good-old white boy West Texas in the 1970s, with flashbacks to to earlier decades. This novel took aim at the racist, misogynistic, and patriarchal world that brutalized women and Mexicans, and perpetuated a victim-blaming mentality. The prose was beautiful and the characters were well-drawn and multi-dimensional. Probably the most surprising thing about this book is that it is the authors first book. The writing is very strong! The book has a story that runs through the whole book about a teenage girl who is brutally raped, but each chapter is about one of the 4-6 other characters in the book, so it is almost like a series of short stories with the one common element in the background. It would have been nice if the book was more cohesive, but otherwise it is definitely a well written book. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML: An instant New York Times Bestseller Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! "A thrilling debut that deserves your attention." â??Ron Charles, the Washington Post Written with the haunting emotional power of Elizabeth Strout and Barbara Kingsolver, an astonishing debut novel that explores the lingering effects of a brutal crime on the women of one small Texas oil town in the 1970s, longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the VCU Cabell First Novel Award. Mercy is hard in a place like this . . . It's February 1976, and Odessa, Texas, stands on the cusp of the next great oil boom. While the town's men embrace the coming prosperity, its women intimately know and fear the violence that always seems to follow. In the early hours of the morning after Valentine's Day, fourteen-year-old Gloria RamÃrez appears on the front porch of Mary Rose Whitehead's ranch house, broken and barely alive. The teenager had been viciously attacked in a nearby oil fieldâ??an act of brutality that is tried in the churches and barrooms of Odessa before it can reach a court of law. When justice is evasive, the stage is set for a showdown with potentially devastating consequences. Valentine is a haunting exploration of the intersections of violence and race, class and region in a story that plumbs the depths of darkness and fear, yet offers a window into beauty and hope. Told through the alternating points of view of indelible characters who burrow deep in the reader's heart, this fierce, unflinching, and surprisingly tender novel illuminates women's strength and vulnerability, and reminds us that it is the stories we tell ourselves that keep us ali No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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