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Cargando... The Summer Guest (2004)por Justin Cronin
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. [[Justin Cronin]] is more well known for his vampire trilogy, which is a wonderful and unique entry in that world. But this book is unfairly overlooked as a result. Though not quite on the same scale as the trilogy, the book is still an epic historical fiction tracking one family in northern Maine at a campground. The patriarch is battle-scarred, physically and emotionally, from his service in World War II. The character for whom the book is named is an Uber-wealthy tycoon who is living with his own pain, and now at the end of his life. He arrives at the camp for one last fishing expedition but with a lot more on his mind than fish. The writing is poetic and evocative, and the story not the overly saccharin into which many of these sort can fall. Part of what elevated the vampire trilogy was Cronin's literary mindset he used to tackle the genre. This earlier book puts that wonderful ability on display. Highly recommended. A family who runs a camp in rural northern Maine, expands to include a rich man who visits once a year and a man who escapes his life to lead fishing expeditions. The patriarch, a damaged survivor of WWII, runs an underground railroad for those selling to dodge the draft and head to Canada. When the rich man comes to the camp to die, the entire family, extended and otherwise, assemble. The primary setting for the novel Summer Guest is a summer camp in Maine. It is a family saga that covers three generations beginning shortly after World War II and ending in the late 1900’s. The story is told from the points of view of family members from each generation as they go through life in the camp. The one exception to the camp story relates the experiences of Joe, Jr. when he went to Canada to evade the draft during the years of the Viet Nam War. Nonetheless, the individual stories blend together exceptionally well to create a poignant and unforgettable tale. The book is about family bonds and family love. It is also about forgiveness, unrequited love and unconditional love. It is about how lives become intertwined in such a way as to cause both hurt and happiness. And reader beware…..it is sometimes happy and sometimes very sad. A loving and beautifully-realized portrait of a family running a fishing lodge in Maine and their 30-year relationship with a wealthy businessman who arrives for one week each summer. First-person chapters rotate among the main characters and slowly reveal the importance of the connections among the group. Wonderful. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML:With a rare combination of emotional insight, narrative power, and lyrical grace, Justin Cronin transforms the simple story of a dying man??s last wish into a rich tapestry of family love. ??A work of art . . . a great American novel.???The Philadelphia Inquirer On an evening in late summer, the great financier Harry Wainwright, nearing the end of his life, arrives at a rustic fishing camp in a remote area of Maine. He comes bearing two things: his wish for a day of fishing in a place that has brought him solace for thirty years, and an astonishing bequest that will forever change the lives of those around him. From the battlefields of Italy to the turbulence of the Vietnam era, to the private battles of love and family, The Summer Guest reveals the full history of this final pilgrimage and its meaning for four people: Jordan Patterson, the haunted young man who will guide Harry on his last voyage out; the camp??s owner Joe Crosby, a Vietnam draft evader who has spent a lifetime ??trying to learn what it means to be brave?; Joe??s wife, Lucy, the woman Harry has loved for three decades; and Joe and Lucy??s daughter Kate??the spirited young woman who holds the key to the last unopened door to the past. As their stories unfold, secrets are revealed, courage is tested, and the bonds of love are strengthened. And always center stage is the place itself??a magical, forgotten corner of New England where the longings of the human heart are mirrored in the wild beauty of the landscape. Intimate, powerful, and profound, The Summer Guest reveals Justin Cronin as a storyteller of unique and marvelous No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The Summer Guest is set at a remote fishing camp in Maine, during the time span from post World War II to more or less the present. It follows several generations of owners, employees and guests of the resort as they come together and drift apart in a complex waltz of love, friendship, desire, anger, illness, and fear. The viewpoint shifts among several of the main characters and gradually reveals each of their secrets and desires.
There are no car crashes and certainly no vampires lurking — this is not Stephen King's Maine! It is a lovely, gentle story told in a lyrical fashion that honors its characters enough to let them speak for themselves. And it may well make you want to book your next vacation at a New England fishing camp even if, like me, you prefer to encounter fish battered and fried with a squeeze of lemon. ( )