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Cargando... The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose (1977)por Alice Munro
   Booker Prize (150) » 9 más Top Five Books of 2020 (806) Books Read in 2015 (719) Books Read in 2022 (3,894) le donne raccontano (63) Big Jubilee List (39) Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.   ) laytonwoman3rd | Dec 19, 2023 |  La prima cosa che mi sento di dire su Alice Munro è che ha una prosa molto garbata: riesce a comunicare anche le sensazioni più sgradevoli con grande equilibrio, capacità descrittiva e oggettività. La Munro non enfatizza, si limita a riportare pensieri, sensazioni ed emozioni e questa semplicità colpisce il lettore come un maglio. Peccato che, per quanto mi riguarda, non tutti i racconti (e sul fatto che sia una raccolta di racconti tornerò dopo) abbiano avuto la stessa forza narrativa: alcuni mi hanno tenuta incollata alla pagine e sembrava che raccontassero qualcosa di me, mentre altri li ho percepiti più lontani (ma forse è solo un problema di esperienze diverse). Infine, Chi ti credi di essere? si presenta come una raccolta di dieci racconti, ma sembra più un romanzo. I racconti, infatti, sono legati tra di loro più dei capitoli di certi romanzi e i balzi temporali tra racconto e racconto quasi non si sentono, o comunque sono funzionali a un continuum narrativo. Leggerò certamente qualcos'altro di questa autrice: ho la sensazione di non aver incontrato la sua opera migliore. In ogni caso, mi ha incuriosito abbastanza da approfondire con altre letture. (  ) lasiepedimore | Sep 19, 2023 | The seemingly simple stories cover some forty years beginning when Rose is a small child growing up in a poor household. Each story covers a different period in Rose’s life, from her home life with her step-mother and father, to her early school days as well as her time in high school and college. Her first serious relationship and on to her marriage, motherhood, and divorce. Each story adds another layer to the life of this woman. This is the second book by Alice Munro that I have read and I have been surprised at how much I liked both of them. The author has a way of putting words together that paint a clear and definitive picture. She doesn’t shy away from describing embarrassing moments and her writing makes it clear that she knows human nature. There are a lot of similarities between the author’s own life and that of Rose which served to make the book all the more intriguing. ( ) DeltaQueen50 | Aug 9, 2022 |  ) eas7788 | Mar 28, 2022 | This book consists of what are referred to as the Flo and Rose stories, and I believe they are stories that have for the most part previously appeared elsewhere. These interwoven stories tell us of the lives of Flo and Rose (step-mother and step-daughter) over 40 years, and read together feel like a novel in short stories. The stories are presented roughly chronologically (as measured by the lives of Flo and Rose), beginning when Rose is just a young child, and ending with Flo in the throes of dementia. The early stories take place in the small Ontario town where Rose grew up in poverty. Later, Rose goes out into the wide world to make her way while Flo remains behind. Yet the ties that bind them stay strong in ways good and bad. This is a wonderful collection, and although the stories were written at various times over the years, there is an inherent consistency and unity in them. Highly recommended. 4 stars ( ) arubabookwoman | Oct 27, 2021 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Lumen recupera una extraordinaria colección de cuentos de Alice Munro, la autora de Mi vida querida y ganadora del Premio Nobel de Literatura, donde la escritora explora el vínculo entre dos mujeres y su evolución a lo largo de los años. «¿Cómo lo hará Alice Munro? Lo que consigue parece magia». --Sara Mesa «Munro tiene una mente prodigiosa. Es precisa, natural y cuenta como nadie la interioridad y el fluir de vidas enteras en unas pocas páginas». --Rodrigo Muñoz Avia «Aprender a sobrevivir, a pesar de la cobardía y la cautela, de los sustos y la aprensión, no es lo mismo que ser desdichado. Y además es interesante». En esta serie de historias entrelazadas, Munro recrea el vínculo entre dos mujeres en el transcurso de casi cuarenta años: la pragmática, desconfiada y a veces un tanto vulgar Flo, y su hijastra, Rose, una chica torpe y tímida pero cuya ambición la empuja a dejar atrás sus raíces y emprender su propio camino. Cuento a cuento, pincelada a pincelada, la gran maestra del relato nos envuelve dentro de una narración que fluye como una novela y a la que consigue dotar de profunda emoción y trascendencia. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Born into the back streets of a small Canadian town, Rose battled incessantly with her practical and shrewd stepmother, Flo, who cowed her with tales of her own past and warnings of the dangerous world outside. But Rose was ambitious - she won a scholarship and left for Toronto where she married Patrick. She was his Beggar Maid, 'meek and voluptuous, with her shy white feet', and he was her knight, content to sit and adore her. Alice Munro's wonderful collection of stories reads like a novel, following Rose's life as she moves away from her impoverished roots and forges her own path in the world. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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