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Carregando... Grasshopper (2000)de Barbara Vine
British Mystery (361) Carregando...
Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. A girl struggles to find out who she wants to be. Keep track of minor characters in the book as they often appear later. The tone is sad, but well worth the read. It is a memorable book. ( ) Young Clodagh moves to London to go to school following the tragic death of a friend, a death that she had a part in causing. Soon, she finds herself running over the rooftops with new friends, each of whom has his or her own tragic story to tell, although she doesn’t know that at first. How those lives intersect and affect each other provides Clodagh with a new sense of herself, of other people and of becoming an adult…. Barbara Vine is, of course, Ruth Rendell, writing less crime and more psychological suspense stories under that name. I very much enjoyed "Grasshopper," a very long read that more than anything else explores the themes of young love, first love and growing into one’s own personhood. Good stuff! A departure for Rendell/Vine who usually writes superb murder mysteries. I find the writing here superior to her mystery work, she takes chances and uses her skill at getting in her character's heads to tracing the mental illness brought on by a teenagers shame over her guilt in a friend's death towards resolution.
Barbara Vine versteht es, den Leser gleich von Beginn an zu fesseln, indem sie Abschnitte einer Geschichte erzählt, sie scheinbar wieder fallen lässt, um sie dann wenig später wieder aufzugreifen.
In a semi-fictionalized North London, a group of twenty-something slackers spend their nights walking the roofs of Maida Vale. On one of these walks they see a couple through an open window, a sighting with profound consequences that reverberate through all their lives. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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