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Cargando... The Butterfly House (2005 original; edición 2006)por Marcia Preston (Autor)
Información de la obraThe Butterfly House por Marcia Preston (2005)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. One of the most beautiful books I have read..I couldn't put it down..I could relate myself to Bobbie a lot..and I loved the ending..it was happy and nice..But I feel sad for Cincy..still loves this book and the cover is awesome.. ( ) I really enjoyed the journey of Bobbie and Cincy, the childhood portion and the adult as well. The characters are all really well written and the scenes that take place at Rockhaven are very vivid. A great many subjects are broached in the story as well, homosexuality and mental illness to name a few. The butterfly is a beautiful reference to the freedom the characters were all searching for. Marcia Preston notes that Margaret Atwood and John Irving are in her top ten authors and I think that is apparent by her writing style. I look forward to more books by her. My goodness me a book really has not moved me like this in a very very long time. I got to the end twenty pages and I just could not stop crying it was so so sad. Although I also have to add there is a hope and a coming together in the end. The book is about Roberta and Cynthia who are best friends from school and the relationship they each have with their mothers but the main character is Roberta or Bobbie as she is known in her youth. Cynthia' mother Lenora keeps beautiful, rare butterflies in her sunporch and she's everything Roberta wishes her own mother could be. Roberta's mother Ruth is an alcoholic and this is why Roberta grows so close with Lenora and Cynthia with terrible consequences. When I started this book it did'nt seem very special but sometimes you just have to read to the end to really get it. Highly recommended good read - excellent. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"I was fifteen when my mother finally told me about my father. She didn't mean to. She meant to keep it a secret forever. If she'd succeeded, it might have saved us all." Roberta and Cynthia are destined to be best friends forever. When both your fathers are missing, you have a lot in common. Unable to cope with her alcoholic mother, Roberta finds Cynthia's house the perfect, carefree refuge. Cynthia's mother keeps beautiful rare butterflies on her sunporch and she's everything Roberta wishes her own mother could be. But just like the delicate creatures they nurture, the women are living in a hothouse. Years later, a hauntingly familiar stranger knocks at Roberta Dutreau's door, forcing her to begin a journey back to her childhood. But is she ready to know the truth about what happened to her, her best friend Cynthia and their mothers that tragic night ten years ago? No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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