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Carregando... Gob's Grief (2000)de Chris Adrian
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Chris Adrian is possibly my favorite writer, but for some reason I was kind of reluctant to read this, his first novel. My hesitation may have been due to the Civil War-era setting, which is not a time period I am interested in. But Adrian is such an imaginative and unique writer that his story transcends its setting; the blurbs for the book puzzle me because they emphasize the setting and almost make it sound like a typical historical novel when it's anything but. The plot brings together four main characters: Gob Hullman, the possibly fictional son of Victoria Hullman; Maci Trufant, a budding suffragist; Will Fie, a young doctor; and Walt Whitman. They are all united by their grief over loved ones lost during the war, and their grief brings them together in Gob's quest to create a machine that will abolish death and bring back not only their lost loved ones but every person who's ever died. Adrian always has some magical realism in his stories, so what seems at first to be typical 1860s America is revealed to have otherworldly and sometimes disturbing layers. I really love Adrian's writing and the way he skews the world just enough to make you nearly believe that what he's saying could actually happen. "Gob's Grief" didn't quite take my breath away the way that "The Children's Hospital" and "A Better Angel" did, but it's still a great novel and highly recommended. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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In the summer of 1863, Gob and Tomo Woodhull, eleven-year-old twin sons of Victoria Woodhull, agree to together forsake their home and family in Licking County, Ohio, for the glories of the Union Army. But on the night of their departure for the war, Gob suffers a change of heart, and Tomo is forced to leave his brother behind. Tomo falls in as a bugler with the Ninth Ohio Volunteers and briefly revels in camp life; but when he is shot clean through the eye in his very first battle, Gob is left to endure the guilt and grief that will later come to fuel his obsession with building a vast machine that will bring Tomo–indeed, all the Civil War dead–back to life. Epic in scope yet emotionally intimate, Gob’s Grief creates a world both fantastic and familiar and populates it with characters who breath on the page, capturing the spirit of a fevered nation populated with lost brothers and lost souls. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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