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Circling the Sun de Paula McLain
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Circling the Sun (edição: 2015)

de Paula McLain, Katharine McEwan

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR, BOOKPAGE, AND SHELF AWARENESS  “Paula McLain is considered the new star of historical fiction, and for good reason. Fans of The Paris Wife will be captivated by Circling the Sun, which . . . is both beautifully written and utterly engrossing.”—Ann Patchett, Country Living
This powerful novel transports readers to the breathtaking world of Out of Africa—1920s Kenya—and reveals the extraordinary adventures of Beryl Markham, a woman before her time. Brought to Kenya from England by pioneering parents dreaming of a new life on an African farm, Beryl is raised unconventionally, developing a fierce will and a love of all things wild. But after everything she knows and trusts dissolves, headstrong young Beryl is flung into a string of disastrous relationships, then becomes caught up in a passionate love triangle with the irresistible safari hunter Denys Finch Hatton and the writer Baroness Karen Blixen. Brave and audacious and contradictory, Beryl will risk everything to have Denys’s love, but it’s ultimately her own heart she must conquer to embrace her true calling and her destiny: to fly.

Praise for Circling the Sun

“In McLain’s confident hands, Beryl Markham crackles to life, and we readers truly understand what made a woman so far ahead of her time believe she had the power to soar.”—Jodi Picoult, author of Leaving Time

“Enchanting . . . a worthy heir to [Isak] Dinesen . . . Like Africa as it’s so gorgeously depicted here, this novel will never let you go.”The Boston Globe

“Famed aviator Beryl Markham is a novelist’s dream. . . . [A] wonderful portrait of a complex woman who lived—defiantly—on her own terms.”People (Book of the Week)
Circling the Sun soars.”Newsday
“Captivating . . . [an] irresistible novel.”—The Seattle Times
“Like its high-flying subject, Circling the Sun is audacious and glamorous and hard not to be drawn in by. Beryl Markham may have married more than once, but she was nobody’s wife.”—Entertainment Weekly
 
“[An] eloquent evocation of Beryl’s daring life.”O: The Oprah Magazine

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Título:Circling the Sun
Autores:Paula McLain
Outros autores:Katharine McEwan
Informação:[S.I.] : Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, 2015.
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Circling the Sun de Paula McLain

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    Out of Africa de Isak Dinesen (Tanya-dogearedcopy)
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    West with the Night de Beryl Markham (Tanya-dogearedcopy)
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    A Spear of Summer Grass de Deanna Raybourn (carriehh)
    carriehh: Africa, 1920s
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    Georgia: A Novel of Georgia O'Keeffe de Dawn Tripp (Limelite)
    Limelite: Georgia O'Keefe and Beryl Markham were two fiercely independent women determined to carve their own lives outside of acceptable societal norms. Two passionate women, capable of great love, sacrifice, and thirst for a full life. I think they would have admired and liked each other.… (mais)
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Good book but the woman's flying story doesn't even come up until the last few chapters. It feels like the author wrote a book that was twice as long and the editor chopped out the last half, and then slapped the last two chapters at the end. ( )
  s_paul | Mar 3, 2024 |
Remarkable story based on real person, Beryl Markham?s life as a feminist in Africa. KIRKUS REVIEWA full-throttle dive into the psyche and romantic attachments of Beryl Markham¥whose 1936 solo flight across the Atlantic in a two-seater prop plane (carrying emergency fuel in the extra seat) transfixed the world.As conceived in this second historical by novelist McLain (The Paris Wife, 2011, etc.), MarkhamÂ¥nee Beryl ClutterbuckÂ¥is the neglected daughter of an impecunious racehorse trainer who fails to make a go at farming in British East Africa and a feckless, squeamish mother who bolts back to England with their older son. Set on her own two feet early, she is barely schooled but precociously brave and wired for physical challengesÂ¥a trait honed by her childhood companion Kibii (a lifelong friend and son of a local chief). In the Mau forestÂ¥?before Kenya was Kenya?Â¥she finds a ?heaven fitted exactly to me.? Keeping poised around large mammals (a leopard and a lion also figure significantly) is in her blood and later gains her credibility at the racecourse in Nairobi, where she becomes the youngest trainer ever licensed. Statuesque, blonde, and carrying an air of self-sufficiencyÂ¥she marries, disastrously, at 16 but is granted a separation to train Lord Delamere?s bloodstockÂ¥Beryl turns heads among the cheerfully doped and dissolute Muthaiga Club set (?I don?t know what it is about Africa, but champagne is absolutely compulsory here?), charms not one but two heirs to the British crown at Baroness Karen Blixen?s soiree, and sets her cap on Blixen?s lover, Denys Fitch Hatton. She?ll have him, too, and much enjoyment derives from guessing how that script, and other intrigues, will play out in McLain?s retelling. Fittingly, McLain has Markham tell her story from an altitude of 1,800 feet: ?I?m meant to do this,? she begins, ?stitch my name on the sky.? Popularly regarded as ?a kind of Circe? (to quote Isak Dinesen biographer Judith Thurman), the young woman McLain explores owns her mistakes (at least privately) and is more boxed in by class, gender assumptions, and self-doubt than her reputation as aviatrix, big game hunter, and femme fatale suggests.Ernest Hemingway, who met Markham on safari two years before her Atlantic crossing, tagged her as ?a high-grade bitch? but proclaimed her 1942 memoir West with the Night ?bloody wonderful.? Readers might even say the same of McLain?s sparkling prose and sympathetic reimagining.
  bentstoker | Jan 26, 2024 |
Very enjoyable fictionalized account of Beryl Markham. Now to re-read West With the Night! ( )
  Suem330 | Dec 28, 2023 |
This wasn't the book for me. If you're hoping to read about Beryl Markham's flying career, look elsewhere. If you want to read about her tempestuous love life, this is the book for you.
  beckyrenner | Aug 3, 2023 |
Another beautifully written historical novel by Paula McLain. While Beryl Markham's life was filled with ups and downs, and complicated relationships with men ( in and out of marriage) McLain brings this adventerous spirit, and 1920s Kenya to life. While some would argue McLain could've inserted more historical details, scenes to peel back the layer of British colonialism, remind readers -at least!- that this was a land teeming with life, & tribes of native born peoples long before the British arrived. Her childhood friend, Kiibi, boy to a nearby tribal village, eventually grows up - withdrawing from her world- as he must, but returns long after they are both in adulthood, to "help" her with her endeavors: first to establish her own horse ranch/racing stock, and then as she pursues airplane flying. It was a moving friendship, but one that McLain doesn't even let Beryl be uncomfortable about... but she ran w/that set of colonial settlers & "the rich & idle" who saw the world, no matter how wild or far from London, as their domain. Nevertheless, it was compulsively readable. ( )
  BDartnall | Apr 25, 2023 |
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Paula McLainautor principaltodas as ediçõescalculado
Blanchette, Dana LeighDesignerautor secundárioalgumas ediçõesconfirmado
Chapman, IsabelleTraductionautor secundárioalgumas ediçõesconfirmado
Dinçer, YaseminÜbersetzerautor secundárioalgumas ediçõesconfirmado
Klynstra, LauraDesigner da capaautor secundárioalgumas ediçõesconfirmado
McEwan, KatherineNarradorautor secundárioalgumas ediçõesconfirmado
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The Vega Gull is peacock blue with silver wings, more splendid than any bird I've known, and somehow mine to fly.
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Before Kenya was Kenya, when it was millions of years old and yet still somehow new, the name belonged only to our most magnificent mountain.
Her absence was still so loud and so heavy, I ached with it, feeling hollow and lost.  I didn't know how to forget my mother any more than my father knew how he might comfort me.  He pulled me—long limbed and a little dirty, as I always seemed to be—onto his lap, and we sat like that quietly for a while.
I grew as tall as Kibii and then taller, running just as swiftly through the tall gold grasses, our feet floured with dust.
This was certain: I belonged on the farm and in the bush.  I was part of the thorn trees and the high jutting escarpment, the bruised-looking hills thick with vegetation; the deep folds between the hills, and the high cornlike grasses.  I had come alive here, as if I'd been given a second birth, and a truer one.  This was my home, and though one it would all trickle through my fingers like so much red dust, for as long as childhood lasted it was a heaven fitted exactly to me.  A place I knew by heart.  The place in the world I'd been made for.
Chpt 62:  Karen buried Denys on the farm, as she knew he wanted it, at the crest of Lamwia, along the Ngong ridge. ... No one could challenge their bond, or doubt how she had loved him.  Or how truly he had been hers.  One day she was going to write about him -- write "him" in such a way that would seal the two of them together for ever.  And from those pages, I would be absent.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR, BOOKPAGE, AND SHELF AWARENESS  “Paula McLain is considered the new star of historical fiction, and for good reason. Fans of The Paris Wife will be captivated by Circling the Sun, which . . . is both beautifully written and utterly engrossing.”—Ann Patchett, Country Living
This powerful novel transports readers to the breathtaking world of Out of Africa—1920s Kenya—and reveals the extraordinary adventures of Beryl Markham, a woman before her time. Brought to Kenya from England by pioneering parents dreaming of a new life on an African farm, Beryl is raised unconventionally, developing a fierce will and a love of all things wild. But after everything she knows and trusts dissolves, headstrong young Beryl is flung into a string of disastrous relationships, then becomes caught up in a passionate love triangle with the irresistible safari hunter Denys Finch Hatton and the writer Baroness Karen Blixen. Brave and audacious and contradictory, Beryl will risk everything to have Denys’s love, but it’s ultimately her own heart she must conquer to embrace her true calling and her destiny: to fly.

Praise for Circling the Sun

“In McLain’s confident hands, Beryl Markham crackles to life, and we readers truly understand what made a woman so far ahead of her time believe she had the power to soar.”—Jodi Picoult, author of Leaving Time

“Enchanting . . . a worthy heir to [Isak] Dinesen . . . Like Africa as it’s so gorgeously depicted here, this novel will never let you go.”The Boston Globe

“Famed aviator Beryl Markham is a novelist’s dream. . . . [A] wonderful portrait of a complex woman who lived—defiantly—on her own terms.”People (Book of the Week)
Circling the Sun soars.”Newsday
“Captivating . . . [an] irresistible novel.”—The Seattle Times
“Like its high-flying subject, Circling the Sun is audacious and glamorous and hard not to be drawn in by. Beryl Markham may have married more than once, but she was nobody’s wife.”—Entertainment Weekly
 
“[An] eloquent evocation of Beryl’s daring life.”O: The Oprah Magazine

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