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Carregando... Last Night in Twisted River: A Novel (original: 2009; edição: 2010)de John Irving
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Dominique Baciagalupo heeft enige zoon, Daniel, die schrijver wordt. Als Daniël op een avond een vrouw doodslaat met een pan omdat hij denkt dat zijn vader door een beer overvallen wordt, gaan ze op de vlucht. 40 jaar later vindt Carl, de partner van de doodgeslagen vrouw, Dominique in Toronto en vuurt hem neer. Hij was de vriend des huizes, Ketchum, gevolgd. Die kan het zichzelf niet vergeven en pleegt zelfmoord door zijn linkerhand af te hakken, de hand waarmee hij destijds Rosie niet heeft kunnen redden. Zij was de vrouw van Dominique en de geliefde van Ketchum. ( ) As always, a great Irving novel, with some of the most fascinating characters I've ever come across in a work of fiction. Ketchum is amazing ! I loved the ending-- the story ends with the narrator (a writer) telling us how he writes his endings first and then works his way back to the beginning, which turns out to be the beginning of this book. How cool is that ! My only issue with the ending is that in my mind, the love of our lives simply DO NOT enter our lives by falling naked from the sky . Even for a work of fiction, this is stretching it... Bears make it into the story naturally, but the book drags on and on. It's also a novel about a novelist writing a novel and reflecting on how auto-biographical bits are transformed to appear in novels. Of course there are parallels between the protagonist and Irving's life -- all this self-reference is too clever by half. Corre el año 1954. La vida en el aserradero de una explotación forestal al norte de New Hampshire no resulta fácil y las desgracias están a la orden del día. Una noche, Dominic Baciagalupo, el cocinero del aserradero, y su hijo Danny, de doce años, se ven obligados a abandonar apresuradamente el lugar cuando Danny, en un fatal accidente, mata a la novia de un alguacil llamado Carl. Dominic y Danny inician entonces una extenuante huida, pues Carl, en su afán de venganza, los perseguirá primero hasta Boston, luego hasta Vermont e Iowa, y finalmente hasta Canadá. En cada ciudad a la que lleguen, padre e hijo se verán obligados a adaptarse a las costumbres y personas del lugar, a inventarse una nueva identidad...
The coy hints of connections between the author and the narrator have been forced onto a plot that can’t accommodate them, and the fact that Danny is a famous novelist too often seems a mere contrivance, giving Irving a convenient opportunity to include rambling background information and to air his own ideas about writing. In his bid to make something “serious,” Irving has risked distracting readers from what otherwise could be a moving, cohesive story. I thought I was heading for another “The Cider House Rules,” my personal favorite of his novels. But the full reading experience ended up being more like “A Widow for One Year,” where one outstanding section has to carry the weight of the whole book. And at 554 pages, that’s a lot to carry. Irving playfully invents a story that’s as much about the pleasures of reading one of his novels as it is anything else, until it poignantly turns into a paean for a dying art and a plea for the idea of the story. This could all seem self-indulgent. Instead, it’s Irving’s best since the ’80s. Irving's story is engrossing, and he gives us a satisfying assortment of fully realized characters: Carl, a cruel, ignorant police officer; Ketchum, a hard-drinking, violent logger who devotes himself to protecting the cook and his son and whose favorite exclamation is “Constipated Christ!”; Six-Pack Pam, whose name pretty much says it all; and Lady Sky, the aforementioned parachutist, who becomes the love of the cook's son's life. Mr. Irving uses coincidences, cliffhanger chapter endings and other 19th-century novelistic devices to hook the reader, while at the same time orchestrating them to underscore the improbable, random nature of real life. Some of his inventions — like a murderous blue car that appears to have zeroed in on Danny’s son — are ludicrous at first glance, but the reader gradually comes to understand that they are writerly metaphors for the precarious nature of life in “a world of accidents.”
In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County-to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto-pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them. A tale that spans five decades. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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