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Carregando... Suddenly (2009)de Bonnie Burnard
  
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 There is an honourable place for sad, truthful novels. But death is Suddenly's only plot, and though one might consider it the ultimate plot, it is insufficient on its own. Love, death and grief are difficult subjects for a reason: they are at once too abstract and too familiar.  Though some of the more maudlin passages could benefit from the editorial scythe, there are sentences that wouldn't be out of place in one of Carol Shields's novels.  Burnard often earns comparisons to Alice Munro. Both authors set stories in southern Ontario and are preoccupied with female experience. But their perspectives and their philosophies are distinct: Munro's characters are rarely what they appear. They are often surprised by their own hidden motives, their shocking capacity for deceit. Burnard's characters, on the other hand, are very much what they appear, or at least, they try hard to be. They are decent, prosperous, generous people. Burnard shoos away the notion that good people make dull fiction. Notable Lists
A phone call in the night, an unexpected diagnosis, a shocking revelation - suddenly life can change forever. 'It's been here, in this bedroom, with Jack and without him, that she has found her only privacy. But now she's surrounded, day and night, by care. Yesterday she told Colleen and Jude that her dying has changed people more than anything else she can think of, and she watched their fixed smiles as it dawned on them that this is what she wants. She wants them to keep up with her. What she is finally beginning to understand is that all those years of talk, the pleasure of idiocy, the bouts of worry, the complaints, the humouring of memory, even the offhand, underdone affection, these are the least of it. The best of it is being known. Known over time. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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 Google Books — Carregando...GênerosClassificação decimal de Dewey (CDD)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos E.U.A. (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia: (3.33)
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