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Cargando... The Wilderness (2011)por Samantha Harvey
  
 Margaret09 | Apr 15, 2024 |    ) kevinkevbo | Jul 14, 2023 | The Wilderness is a novel about Alzheimer's and like Lisa Genova's 'Still Alice', told from the perspective of the sufferer. As well as being similar in subject matter, they are both similar in the fact that they are both first novels. And they are both good. I was more impressed however with "Still Alice". I felt that by bringing in the themes of Jewishness and Jewish identity, the loss of a child and the effects of adulatory, that Harvey distracted from what was the meanderings and loss of memory due to Alzheimer's and what was the result of selective memory due to perceived guilt. Nevertheless "The Wilderness" is worth reading, and the last chapters in particular evoke what must be the black void that progressively over the doomed Alzheimer's brain. I recommend this book for anyone who has friend or family suffering from this sad disease, or any student of cognition or memoryS (  ) kjuliff | Feb 9, 2023 | I listened to this, and enjoyed Sean Barrett's narration. I did often find myself confused--which, I think, is the point? I suspect Harvey was attempting to showcase that confusion, and on audio it certainly worked for me. I did find this a little too long (10:45:00) for me, it was slow and repetitive. But then Jake find time very confusing at the end of the book also. So an interesting experiment, perhaps a little too well done. It's also sad and painful--first as Jake realizes there is a problem, then as he begins to forget there is a problem, then as he desperately tries to cling to his memories of his family and Elena and his dog. And then he looses those too. ( ) Dreesie | Sep 17, 2022 |  ) carliwi | Sep 23, 2019 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
It's Jake's birthday. He is sitting in a small plane, being flown over the landscape that has been the backdrop to his life - his childhood, his marriage, his work, his passions. Now he is in his early sixties, and he isn't quite the man he used to be. He has lost his wife, his son is in prison, and he is about to lose his past, for Jake has Alzheimer's. As the disease takes hold of him, Jake struggles to hold on to his personal story, to his memories and identity, but they are becoming increasingly elusive and unreliable. What happened to his daughter? Is she alive, or long dead? And why exactly is his son in prison? What went so wrong in his life? There was a cherry tree once, and a yellow dress, but what exactly do they mean? As Jake, assisted by 'poor Eleanor', a childhood friend with whom for some unfathomable reason he seems to be sleeping, fights the inevitable dying of the light, the key events of his life keep changing as he tries to grasp them, and what until recently seemed solid fact is melting into surreal dreams or nightmarish imaginings. Is there anything he'll be able to salvage from the wreckage? Beauty, perhaps? The memory of love? Or nothing at all? From the first sentence to the last, The Wilderness holds us in its grip. This is writing of extraordinary power and beauty. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey
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This is a wonderfully imagined book, which gave me real insight (and fears) into an existence entirely dominated by unreliable memories, whether of mothers, lovers, or where to store the coffee cups. Here is a man who was once an architect with vision, now reduced to dependency and frustration.
Beautifully written, it had me gripped till the last page. (