Pulse en una miniatura para ir a Google Books.
Cargando... Changing Heaven (1990)por Jane Urquhart
Ninguno Cargando...
Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I really like Jane Urquhart. This is one of her early novels, and shows she has long had the ability to tell a good story. Here we have Ann, a professor who loves and studies the novel Wuthering Heights. She becomes involved with a fellow professor, but the relationship is one-sided with her feeling much more for him than he does for her. We also have the story of Polly, a balloonist, involved in a similarly one-sided relationship. Ms. Urqhart brings these two stories together in a magical way that I loved. The writing, as always, was excellent as were the characters. ( ) This was a quirky little book but enjoyable. As with all Urquhart's books the writing was lovely. Ann grew up in Toronto but her grandmother lived in a small town in rural Ontario. Ann's father was away from home a great deal so most of the time there was just Ann and her mother. They made frequent trips to the grandmother's house and Ann observed the countryside. Ann also read and one of her favourite books was Wuthering Heights. When she grew up she became a professor at an unnamed college. There she met and had an affair with an art history prof who specialized in Tintoretto. When she realized that this jerk was never going to love her she took off to the Yorkshire moors to write a book about the weather in Wuthering Heights. Along with Ann's story is a ghost story starring Arianna/Polly, a female ballooinist who also had an unfortunate love affair, and Emily Bronte. I lost patience with both Ann and Polly for continuing to love men who were not good enough for them. I know it is a common occurrence. Goodness knows I had a few disastrous romances in my time but they couldn't seem to stay away from these guys. So that spoiled what could have been a really lovely book. I'll still continue to read Urquhart's work because she is a wonderful writer and when she gets a plot right it is a beautiful thing. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Two worlds are intertwined in this hauntingly beautiful story as it moves from Toronto to the English moors and to Venice, Italy. The time frame shifts between present and past, linking the lives of a young Brontë scholar (a woman in the throes of a troubled love affair), a turn-of-the-century female balloonist, and an elusive explorer with the ghost – or the memory – of Emily Brontë. Urquhart reveals something about the act of artistic creation, the ways in which stories enter our lives, and about the cyclical nature of love throughout time. This is a novel of darkness and light, of intense weather and inner calm. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
Debates activosNingunoCubiertas populares
Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Clasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
¿Eres tú?Conviértete en un Autor de LibraryThing. |