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Cargando... The Push: Mother. Daughter. Angel. Monster? The Sunday Times bestseller (edición 2021)por Ashley Audrain (Autor)
Información de la obraThe Push por Ashley Audrain
  
Books Read in 2021 (21) Top Five Books of 2021 (182) Books Read in 2022 (1,237) » 8 más Female Protagonist (962) Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.  Chrissylou62 | Apr 11, 2024 |    ) gonzocc | Mar 31, 2024 | The Push had me helplessly hooked and locked in a stranglehold from the very first chapter to the very last word. If I could’ve read it in one sitting I would have. Every time I had to put it down I was itching to pick it back up again. Every time I turned a page my eyes swooped from top left to bottom right in trepidatious anticipation of what horror was going to be hurled at me next. Eighty five short chapters written in an easy-to-read style packed with hard-to-stomach content, The Push is Blyth’s story interspersed with the childhoods and motherhoods of her grandmother Etta and mother Cecilia, revealing a cycle of maternal abuse, neglect and malfunction. For me, the reading was pure feeling. Nail-biting tension, escalating dread, heartbreaking sadness, knife-edge apprehension. The images came crowding in after I’d devoured the words and will stay with me for a very long time. In a world where Violets and Kevins are all too real, The Push is a chilling and thought-provoking work of fiction where maternal instincts are not necessarily a given and not all children are the little angels we believe them to be. An awesome debut. Highly recommended. (  ) geraldine_croft | Mar 22, 2024 | Media: Audio Read by: Marin Ireland Length: 8 hrs an 13. minutes Reminiscent of Shriver’s We Need to Talk About Kevin and Lessing’s The Fifth Child The Push centers around a child who may have been born “bad”. Or is she the product of an unreliable narrator.You’ll have to read the book to the very end to find out. Violet is the much-wanted child of the happily married Blythe and Fox . From the moment she is pushed from the birth canal however, all is not well. Blythe doesn’t bond. The baby won’t stop crying. A familiar story and in the beginning chapters I thought I was reading a book about the problems associated with postpartum trauma. It’s all a bit boring until Violet enters the world outside the cosy middle-class family. A little boy at kinder has his hair pulled out. Or did he cut it himself? At pre-school playground another child is pushed, - I started to get the title - shoved from the platform of a climbing frame where he had been standing next to Violet. Was it an accident? The husband Fox loves Violet. She can do no wrong. He starts to think he’s married a nutcase. He has dinner with his PA. Blythe questions him. She’s neurotic. An unfeeling mother. Or is she? Around this part of the story I was hooked. Was Blythe crazy or was her husband naive. Audrain writes about Blythe’s mother and grandmother. Both had been cold toward their daughters. I started to lose interest and thought of skipping to the end to see what happened. The maternal line just wasn’t interesting. But I plowed through. Having got this far I wasn’t about to cheat. I could leave the cheating to foxy Fox who I was beginning to dislike. Once it’s clear that Blythe’s childhood was pretty horrible the plot takes a new turn. Blythe’s behavior becomes unhinged, bordering on the bizarre. She decides on a course of action from which there’s no turning back. As to the rest, it’d require a spoiler alert, so there’s no point. I think The Push showed promise. The plot was good though I could have done with a bit less of the postpartum episodes and descriptions of milk and nipples. And the maternal genealogy was cumbersome. But overall it was an enjoyable read and the ending was spot on. I look forward to reading more of Audrain. ( ) kjuliff | Mar 5, 2024 | BooksInMirror | Feb 19, 2024 | PremiosListas de sobresalientes
Fiction.
Literature.
Suspense.
Thriller.
HTML: El lanzamiento ms esperado de 2021: 300.000 ejemplares vendidos en todo el mundo en seis meses. Una madre. Una hija. Una historia con dos caras. Recomendadsimo. Completamente adictiva. Creamos que nos conocamos el uno al otro. Creamos que nos conocamos a nosotros mismos. Blythe ya no sabe qu es verdad y qu es mentira: est viviendo la vida feliz que siempre dese, con un marido perfecto y una hija angelical? O est repitiendo la srdida historia de su madre y su abuela, marcada por el desapego y el maltrato? Es Fox, su marido, el compaero y padre ideal, o tiene una vida paralela que cada da lo aleja ms de su casa? Su hija Violet es una nia brillante y complicada, que solo quiere que su madre le preste ms atencin, o es malvada de nacimiento? Depende del momento y de cmo se mire, todo y nada puede parecer verdad o parecer una trampa. El instinto es una novela que se queda grabada. Una historia de horror y redencin, una exploracin del origen de la maldad y del modo ominoso en que los traumas familiares se transmiten de madres a hijas. Esta es, en definitiva, una historia valiente que da pie a que cada lector se interrogue sobre cuestiones dolorosas, personales y, por ello, necesarias. La crtica ha dicho: Un thriller psicolgico con un final digno de Heridas abiertas que se inscribe en el cada vez ms transitado gnero del mum noir o novela negra materna. [...] Un boom editorial. [...] Genera adiccin. Comparada como un cruce entre Perdida, de Gillian Flynn, y Tenemos que hablar de Kevin, de Lionel Shriver, [el] libro se perfila como uno de los grandes best sellers internacionales del ao. El instinto promete ser el fenmeno Perdida de este ao. [...] Dar mucho que leer. Y que hablar. Un relato adictivo, un thriller psicolgico que brilla por la cantidad de temas que aborda: desde el lado oscuro de la maternidad y las expectativas que ponemos sobre las madres, hasta la imposibilidad de escapar a la herencia y la gentica materna, pasando por el derrumbe de la pareja y la figura de una nia que hace pedazos el mito de la inocencia y la pureza infantiles. [...] Sirva su novela como ejemplo. Una novela muy dura, terrorfica incluso, que se lee de una sentada y tiene un estilo enormemente gil y directo. Afronta de una manera muy sincera y profunda la maternidad y te deja al terminarla con un nudo en el corazn. Un thriller psicolgico, una historia terrible sobre los orgenes de la maldad y un fino anlisis de los traumas familiares con los que carga todo ser humano. [...] Un relato adictivo del llamado gnero mom noir o novela negra materna. Una novela fascinante, muy original. Un thriller psicolgico que habla de la maternidad y que remueve, no deja indiferente. Desde el punto de vista narrativo es muy interesante el uso de narrador en primera y segunda persona, as como los saltos temporales. La recomiendo, sin duda. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Bythe comes from a dysfunctional family in which her mother couldn't bond with her. ("The women in this family are different " her mother explained). When Blythe the gives birth to her daughter, Violet, she cannot bond with her either. Violet seems to resent Blythe, who in turn senses psychopathic tendencies inner daughter.
In a gripping story reminiscent of "The Bad Seed", we are left with the question, is it nature or nurture? (