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Cargando... It Is Wood, It Is Stonepor Gabriella Burnham
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. When Linda’s husband, Dennis, accepts a year-long teaching assignment at the University of Sao Paolo, she’s happy to do. She’s been caring for her dying father, ignoring her writing career and at loose ends. Most of the story is told as if she is talking to her husband. Her first challenge in Brazil is what to do with Marta, the black woman who has been assigned as their maid. A maid won’t solve her loneliness problem though. On a chance encounter she becomes friends with Cilia who is mysterious…so different than Linda. It develops into a short-term romance which includes a few days at the beach. And then there is the wealthy wife of the university provost, with whom Linda feels obligated to associate. And in this story, debut author Burnham gives us a lot to think about as we ponder the purpose of our lives. ( ) The story is easy to read, told in the form of a retrospective from a wife to her husband. In Brazil, where he has a teaching position for a year, this succinct tale takes place and mainly explores the delicate balance of love and friendship. Who knew linear storytelling would become such a rarity these days that it's fresh?! Linda explores her feelings and interests in a world completely different from her own. She takes up with a selfish eccentric, Celia, who lends more than a little spice to the story. She eventually comes to value of her commitment to her husband and generosity of spirit. This is an author to watch. Beautifully poetic title (it's a reference to a song), incredible cover design, and both perfectly represent the inside contents of this book. The prose is so lush and descriptive, I can't count the number of quotes I copied down. There's a pervasive sense of intimacy and loneliness to it.. Overall, I enjoyed "It is Wood, It is Stone" very much. I was hooked pretty much as soon as I started, and read it over a few a few sittings. The less than stellar parts of this book are few. I felt that chapter 24 was a (temporary) departure from the main narrative in a way that wasn't properly built up to. It was beautifully written as well, and I enjoyed it, Also, my feelings about the way things end are mixed. Another small thing: it states outright what Celia's purpose was in the story, what she "meant" to Linda, which could have been left as subtext. Anyway, my experience with this book wasn't affected disproportionately. I thought it was lovely, and will probably reread it in the future. *read via NetGalley sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML:??A lush depiction of privilege and power, sex and stability . . . following three women in São Paulo . . . It Is Wood, It Is Stone is an elegant arrival of a new talent.???Elle NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Good Housekeeping ? Marie Claire ? Harper??s Bazaar ? Publishers Weekly With sharp, gorgeous prose, It Is Wood, It Is Stone takes place over the course of a year in São Paulo, Brazil, in which two women??s lives intersect. Linda, an anxious and restless American, has moved to São Paulo, with her husband, Dennis, who has accepted a yearlong professorship. As Dennis submerges himself in his work, Linda finds herself unmoored and adrift, feeling increasingly disassociated from her own body. Linda??s unwavering and skilled maid, Marta, has more claim to Linda??s home than Linda can fathom. Marta, who is struggling to make sense of complicated history and its racial tensions, is exasperated by Linda??s instability. One day, Linda leaves home with a charismatic and beguiling artist, whom she joins on a fervent adventure that causes reverberations felt by everyone, and ultimately binds Marta and Linda in a profoundly human, and tender, way. An exquisite debut novel by young Brazilian American author Gabriella Burnham, It Is Wood, It Is Stone is about women whose romantic and subversive entanglements reflect on class and colorism, sexu No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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