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Carregando... The Sonnet Loverde Carol Goodman
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Like all of Goodman's stories, The Sonnet Lover is a novel of suspense, of literary and mythological intrigue, of subtle romance. Set in the ethereal sprawling Tuscan estate of La Civetta, sonnet expert and literary professor Rose Asher is drawn into the mysterious circumstances surrounding William Shakespeare and his enigmatic Dark Lady and the supposed link between their story and the historic residents of the villa. An intriguing plot line threaded with murder, poetry, and sumptuous imagery, The Sonnet Lover unfortunately falls a bit flat in other areas and pales in comparison to Goodman's other novels. ( ) The only other book I have read by Carol Goodman is "The Night Villa" and I vastly preferred "The Sonnet Lover." Both novels rely on a variety of implasible coincidences, but for some reason "The Sonnet Lover" kept my attention more firmly and kept me reading more enthusiastically. I've visited Florence and love Tuscany; I'm also a major fan of Shakespeare's sonnets. The mystery plot had a number of odd flaws and I figured out early on what was really happening with the death of Robin Weiss. But I didn't manage to unravel the entire mystery, which is all I ask. One major complaint: I know that Carol Goodman collaborates with her husband (he's her poet), so she's probably not writing from her current situation, but in both of the books I have read, the female protagonist falls for obvious bad guys; even though they are college professors and seem to be emotinally stable, the women make incredibly stupid choices involving men. It's just such a cliche and leads the reader to doubt the narrtor's judgement in all things. Maybe Goodman does it to make these women seem more like the rest of us, but I find it annoying. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
Literature professor Rose Asher can't shake the feeling: Robin Weiss, a talented and ambitious student at her New York City college, definitely reminds her of Bruno Brunelli, the man Rose came to love years ago during a semester in the Italian countryside. But soon Robin dies under mysterious circumstances and in a farewell letter directs his teacher to a library archive in Florence. Returning to the rustic Italian villa where she first met Bruno, Rose finds herself enmeshed in a web of secrets and scandal: a folio containing what some believe are lost sonnets by Shakespeare has mysteriously vanished. Uncertain whom she can trust and where she can turn, Rose races against time and her enemies in a desperate bid to retrieve a missing masterpiece--a work of art with the power to change lives and fortunes. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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