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Carregando... The Stars Are Fire (2017)de Anita Shreve
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. This book reminded me of all the reasons I love Anita Shreve. Absolutely loved it! ( ) Anita Shreve once again brings us the story of woman fenced in by the dictates about women’s place during the Post World II era who comes into her own, drawing on inner strength and character her husband wants to squash. Thoroughly enjoyable. The literary world has lost a star with Ms. Shreve’s death. Good story. Really enjoyed. Email this reviewKIRKUS REVIEWShreve?s latest takes on natural disasters, public and private.The summer of 1947 was unseasonably hot, leading to a drought that had devastating consequences for the state of Maine. Shreve?s novel tells the story of the Great Fires of Maine from the perspective of Grace, a housewife living near the coast. Grace faces a drought of a different kind, in her marriage. Husband Gene, a surveyor, never talks about the war experiences that left him with inner and outer scars, but ?the other husbands don?t either.? What is unusual, at least compared to how Grace?s neighbor Rosie describes her love life, is how brutal Gene can be in bed. With two children under 2 and another on the way, Grace?s domestic arrangements are increasingly stressed as blistering summer advances. By October, the entire state is a tinderbox; even a dropped cigarette can set a parched lawn ablaze. As wildfires threaten, Gene leaves with a crew of men to dig a fire break. Awakened in the middle of the night, Grace realizes her town is burning. She flees to the seashore with her children and the clothes on her back and spends the night along with Rosie and many others huddled under soaked blankets. After rescue comes, Grace?s baby is stillborn. Now homeless, with the children and her mother in tow, Grace moves into a vacant beach-side mansion which, she thinks, was left to Gene by his late mother, Merle. Except that Gene has been declared missing, and the mansion is not unoccupied: Aidan, an Irish pianist, has been squatting there since the fire disrupted his concert tour. Gene?s absence seems downright salutary. A brief affair with Aidan shows her what Rosie was talking about, and he resumes his tour, promising to return. All the contentedness stalls the novel, until Shreve shakes things up in a way that descends into woman-in-jeopardy territory. The back stories of the main characters are so sketchy that their actions seem unmotivated and arbitrary.Formulaic plot aside, worth reading for the period detail and the evocative prose. rabck from dvg; set in the late 1940's in a Maine Coastal town, Grace is a housewife with 2 young children and a brute for a husband - but she thinks that's normal. A fire sweeps through the community, destroying hers and her mother's home. Grace manages to keep her children alive by retreating to the beach/surf but loses her baby. Her husband was with a group of men trying to build a firebreak and doesn't come back. At her wits end about what to do, they move in with some of her mother's friends, but when 2yo Clare becomes ill, Grace and Clare recuperate at a clinic - which provided Grace with a job. She also realizes that she can use Gene's deceased mother's home, as it's technically the family's & there becomes a lot more independent. Gene reappears toward the end of the book, returns to mistreating Grace and this time she has to strength to move out. I would have liked to know more about Gene's mother - there's a whole story there too. Why did she hide jewelry in her clothes' seams and hems? Why did she own such fancy dresses and furs? And the grand piano in the turret room -why was that there? sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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HTML:INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER From the New York Times best-selling author of The Weight of Water and The Pilot's Wife (an Oprah's Book Club selection): an exquisitely suspenseful new novel about an extraordinary young woman tested by a catastrophic event and its devastating aftermathâ??based on the true story of the largest fire in Maine's history In October 1947, after a summer long drought, fires break out all along the Maine coast from Bar Harbor to Kittery and are soon racing out of control from town to village. Five months pregnant, Grace Holland is left alone to protect her two toddlers when her husband, Gene, joins the volunteer firefighters. Along with her best friend, Rosie, and Rosie's two young children, Grace watches helplessly as their houses burn to the ground, the flames finally forcing them all into the ocean as a last resort. The women spend the night frantically protecting their children, and in the morning find their lives forever changed: homeless, penniless, awaiting news of their husbands' fate, and left to face an uncertain future in a town that no longer exists. In the midst of this devastating loss, Grace discovers glorious new freedomsâ??joys and triumphs she could never have expected her narrow life with Gene could containâ??and her spirit soars. And then the unthinkable happensâ??and Grace's bravery is tested as n Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Google Books — Carregando... GênerosClassificação decimal de Dewey (CDD)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos E.U.A. (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia:
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