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Cargando... The Tightrope Walker (1979)por Dorothy Gilman
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. A young woman seeks justice based on the flimsiest of clues to the people involved in the wrong-doing. I was captivated by this old-fashioned style of telling a story in a way that draws on the characters and their actions. There's a mystery, a mild romance, and lots of suspense and adventure. An excellent tale of the MC becoming a confident adult. ( ) Really enjoyed this book and the main character. I found it to be a very engrossing mystery involving characters I was curious about. There was a gentleness to it that almost caused me to stop reading, as I'm used to gritty mysteries, but I'm glad I kept reading. I've never read anything by this author before, but I'm determined to see if her other work pleases me as much. Wow. It's very Gilman - Amelia several times conquers entirely through naively assuming she will. Including the one place where she is incredibly _stupid_, which brings on the climax. I almost put the book down at that point, but powered through instead - and once the setup was done, the story caught me up again. Very rich, very weird story, as a girl who's always been rather rootless finds the last plea of a woman who expected to be murdered - and against all odds, actually finds out what happened. She does a lot of growing up along the way, one way and another - I like Amelia at the end of the story a lot better than I liked her at the beginning. The coincidences are wild - particularly about the book (I now want to read Gilman's version of it!). A lot of fun, and I think it will definitely reward rereading (as Gilman's books usually do). The biggest question is how I managed to miss it for so long! sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"A superb book." THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE When quiet, shy Amelia Jones reads a desperate message that has fallen out of a barrel organ in the antique shop she just bought, she can't forget the words, "They're going to kill me soon..." Armed only with the woman's first name and the note written years before, Amelia begins a journey into the past, a search that takes her from the protective cocoon she's wrapped herself in to a precarious world where nothing is the way it seems, where fear is second nature, and dark secrets just might uncover murder--her own.... No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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