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Cargando... The Lost Manuscript: A Novel (edición 2021)por Cathy Bonidan (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Simultaneously a love letter to manuscripts and letter writing! One receives the 1st hint reading … ”To all the books we’ve read. To all those we have yet to read. Because like sandmen, they sprinkle into our daily lives a few words or phrases that work their way into our subconscious over time. And change us. Discreetly, but irrevocably.”Anne-Lise Briard was tickled to discover a manuscript in the nightstand drawer of her room at the Beau Rivage Hotel on the Brittany coast as she had forgotten to bring a book with her to read on vacation. As books are special to her she takes care to return the abandoned manuscript with a letter as thankfully there was an address tucked between the mid-point pages. In taking that action Anne-Lise couldn’t possibly have imagined how her life would irrevocably be different from that moment forward. I love epistolary novels and to discover this #hiddengem felt as wondrous to me as I imagine Anne-Lise felt discovering a manuscript to read in a hotel nightstand drawer instead of empty hours ahead. The correspondence built the story letter by letter and added either the gravity of silence until the next letter was received or the sparks of suspense or the twinkles of joy when a letter was answered promptly. To have multiple characters developed through their letter-writing styles was fascinating and lyrical. I didn’t foresee the twist at the end and that made this novel all the more magical for me. My heartfelt appreciation for the beautiful achievements of the author and translator for lovely reading hours. If you have already enjoyed the novel, may I suggest this interview: https://theavidpen.com/the-lost-manuscript-with-author-cathy-bonidan/ If you haven’t yet read the novel, I can only give you my highest recommendation to enjoy this literary delight! I thought this was an interesting story and a quick read. The further you read in this book, the more determined you are -- as the lead character is -- to see it through to completion and discover how in the world an old half-finished manuscript randomly touched so many lives. The author's conceit was to present the story in the form of letters written between a members of a growing cast of characters (with a couple of emails thrown in for good measure). Given enough letters, the reader gets to know these characters - their histories, foibles, talents, desires, and more. My only problem with that was that each letter writer was unrealistically skilled at something (writing letters) few people spend time doing in this day and age. This was completely fine, but it should not have been tagged as a romance. There are romantic elements, but the core story follows four people tracking down the history of a manuscript lost in 1983 and found by many people over the intervening decades. Told entirely through letters, the writing is sometimes illogically flowery, almost as if the author wanted to capture the writing style of people corresponding a hundred years ago. This is translated from the French and I believe genre expectations there are different from what US readers expect from a book tagged as romance. In any case, the cover is misleading and while I assume many will love the story, it wasn't for me. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"Cathy Bonidan's The Lost Manuscript is a charming epistolary novel about the love of books and magical ability they have to bring people together. Sometimes a book has the power to change your life... When Anne-Lise Briard books a room at the Beau Rivage Hotel for her vacation on the Brittany coast, she has no idea this trip will start her on the path to unearthing a mystery. In search of something to read, she opens up her bedside table drawer in her hotel room, and inside she finds an abandoned manuscript. Halfway through the pages, an address is written. She sends pages to the address, in hopes of potentially hearing a response from the unknown author. But not before she reads the story and falls in love with it. The response, which she receives a few days later, astonishes her... Not only does the author write back, but he confesses that he lost the manuscript 30 years prior on a flight to Montreal. And then he reveals something even more shocking-that he was not the author of the second half of the book. Anne-Lise can't rest until she discovers who this second mystery author is, and in doing so tracks down every person who has held this manuscript in their hands. Through the letters exchanged by the people whose lives the manuscript has touched, she discovers long-lost love stories and intimate secrets. Romances blossom and new friends are made. Everyone's lives are made better by this book-and isn't that the point of reading? And finally, with a plot twist you don't see coming, she uncovers the astonishing identity of the author who finished the story"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Set primarily in France, a woman finds a manuscript in a hotel nightstand. She returns it to its author, but is surprised when he advises her that he lost the manuscript years earlier, and only wrote to p.156, and the ending was not his. This causes the woman to find out where the manuscript had traveled, and why after all these years did it resurface.
This is a story of relationships, friends, lovers, secrets, and a mystery. I enjoyed the correspondence and the unraveling story of the manuscript and the lives it touched. I look forward to reading more by this author. ( )