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Cargando... Duetpor Carol Shields
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Orange Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning Carol Shields' tender, funny and wonderfully insightful portrait of two sisters struggling to rediscover themselves amidst the perplexing swirl of family life. Judith is a biographer whose life is subsumed by others: her eccentric husband, her secretive children and the Victorian novelist who is her subject. Her sister Charleen is a single mother and lapsed poet. While Judith analyses the minutiae of lives past and present, Charleen battles her own past ghosts and wonders desperately what her life has been about. As their mother's wedding approaches, both sisters must come to terms with the paths they have chosen. Originally published as two companion novels: Small Ceremonies and The Box Garden. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The novels are stand-alone thogh linked in that the two eponymous characters are sisters:
Narrator of the first, the elder sister, is wife of an academic and mother of teenagers, as well as a successful biographer. She's becoming aware of her offspring growing away from her, getting their own lives; unbridgeable gaps in her marriage. I thought it fell down somewhat in the finale- the carefully drawn family seemed to subside into a silly story of implausible friends and outlandish events.
The second novel managed to keep it together more convincingly. Divorced Charleen, a sometime poetess and mother of one, is on her way to attend the second marriage of her embittered elderly mother. She reflects on the fractured family dynamics, her own failed relationship...and her teenage son. But events lead to a gripping finale...
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