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Carregando... Evening (edição: 1999)de Susan Minot
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Ann Lord is lying in “the last room,” dying of cancer. As she slips into and out of lucidity, she remembers her life, her three marriages, the high and low points, and in particular one weekend and one very special relationship. “She woke and thought of what was left. She had always believed in the accepted wisdom that what was important would endure and in the end survive and what mattered would last and be recognized and saved. But she saw now that was not true.” Susan Minot manages to convey Ann's state of mind convincingly and lyrically: “She grew sensitive to the different shades of white on the ceiling. Her sense was not always right. The position of her arm had something to do with inviting people to dinner. She needed to move the pillow so a boat could dock there. She knew it wasn't logical and wondered if the drugs were obscuring things then it seemed as if the drugs were making it easier to read the true meaning.” One tiny quibble is that the style is at times almost self-consciously, ostentatiously lyrical. Nevertheless, it never interferes with and almost always enhances the story, which is heartbreaking and beautiful. Review: Evening by Susan Minot. 03/19/2018 I found the book a little confusing because of the time excerpts in the main characters memory. It was a sad story about an elderly women dying of cancer returning to her three marriages and events by memory while lying in bed dying. Reading about her moments in life she really never was happy after her first love; a Doctor from Chicago had a pregnant fiancé in the shadows. From that point on Ann married three times, had children in those marriages, and a home but lacked happiness. Now, at sixty-five Ann Grant Lord laid in bed dying of cancer in her home surrounded by family members who was keeping a death vigil while she was mentally slips back to the weekend in 1955 when she fell in love. Ann’s memories interchange with her memories of her marriages and she was having hallucinations brought on by the heavy meds she was taking. The reader was led to believe Ann was wondering what her life would have been if she married her first love. Ann continues to ramble about her love and places she had been while the family sat around and the nurse was writing in her report in a clinical manner. This was a story of a woman in her final hours recollecting a passionate affair that happen years ago. Ann as the character wasn’t charming, witty, she had an unlikable personality about her and I felt it made the story more confusing and densely sad. I assume I also felt the author create Ann as never learning how to be happy or didn’t give her the ability to be happy. It was just one of those stories that deeply saddens the reader as the story unfolds. about a woman dying who remembers a weekend long ago she fell in love — okay reading — I'm pondering this is the 2nd book I've read other than May Sarton - The Reckoning about people at the end go back think about profound love, friendships — not their family or life they've lived too commonplace — they were there — but what might have been an intense moment, relationship, that ended abruptly or not so but vanished + still is the high point of their life. During a summer weekend on the coast of Maine, at the wedding of her best friend, Ann Grant fell in love. She was twenty-five. Forty years later--after three marriages and five children--Ann Lord finds herself in the dim claustrophobia of illness, careening between lucidity and delirium and only vaguely conscious of the friends and family parading by her bedside, when the memory of that weekend returns to her with the clarity and intensity of a fever-dream.
In her stunning novel, "Evening," Ms. Minot has taken the same material and techniques employed in her earlier books and fashioned a powerful story, a story that cuts back and forth in time to give us both the defining moment in a woman's life and an understanding of how that moment has reverberated throughout the remainder of her days. Prêmios
With two novels and one short story collection published to overwhelming critical acclaim ("Monkeys takes your breath away," said Anne Tyler; "heartbreaking, exhilarating," raved the New York Times Book Review), Susan Minot has emerged as one of the most gifted writers in America, praised for her ability to strike at powerful emotional truths in language that is sensual and commanding, mesmerizing in its vitality and intelligence. Now, with Evening, she gives us her most ambitious novel, a work of surpassing beauty. During a summer weekend on the coast of Maine, at the wedding of her best friend, Ann Grant fell in love. She was twenty-five. Forty years later--after three marriages and five children--Ann Lord finds herself in the dim claustrophobia of illness, careening between lucidity and delirium and only vaguely conscious of the friends and family parading by her bedside, when the memory of that weekend returns to her with the clarity and intensity of a fever-dream. Evening unfolds in the rushlight of that memory, as Ann relives those three vivid days on the New England coast, with motorboats buzzing and bands playing in the night, and the devastating tragedy that followed a spectacular wedding. Here, in the surge of hope and possibility that coursed through her at twenty-five--in a singular time of complete surrender--Ann discovers the highest point of her life. Superbly written and miraculously uplifting, Evening is a stirring exploration of time and memory, of love's transcendence and of its failure to transcend--a rich testament to the depths of grief and passion, and a stunning achievement. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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i didn't like all of this but some parts were so beautiful and surprising, and even in the hard to understand sentences i found some real gems (of language, construction, thought). the parts i liked were really lovely, and maybe the rest, which wasn't lovely, reflects how we handle being in the room/house with someone as we twiddle our thumbs and wait for them to die. i think i'll like this more and more the further i get from it and the more i think about it. it's definitely not one to read through quickly, with only some attention. ( )