- Taschenbuch: 176 Seiten
- Verlag: Vintage (5. November 1997)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0375703063
- ISBN-13: 978-0375703065
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 13,2 x 1 x 20,3 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 3.4 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (61 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 707.752 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Oprah Book Club® Selection, October 1997: Gibbons's novel, A Virtuous Woman, takes place in the same hardscrabble part of the world as Ellen Foster. The virtuous woman is Ruby Pitt Woodrow, a woman who might have ended up like Ellen Foster's mother if fate, in the shape of Jack Stokes, hadn't crossed her path. The daughter of prosperous farmers, Ruby runs off with a migrant worker who treats her badly, then abandons her far from home. When she meets Jack, a man 20 years her senior, she's working as a cleaning woman in another prosperous farmer's house. Jack is a man women don't look at even once, let alone twice; Ruby is a woman who needs someone to take care of her. Out of this unlikely union grows a quiet kind of love that is no less powerful for being unstated.
Ellen Foster and A Virtuous Woman share more than just location and a few characters in common. Though each is a complete novel in and of itself, taken together the two books resonate one another: Ellen Foster and Ruby Pitt Woodrow are both damaged people who find the kind of love they need to heal. These multilayered novels are tough-minded and resolutely unsentimental, just like their protagonists. Yet like Ellen and Ruby, each contains a nut of sweetness at its core that takes the bitter edge off the hard lives and hard stories Kaye Gibbons has to tell.
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This is a love story, plain and simple. Its the tale of a 40-year-old tenant farmer and a 20-year-old daughter of the gentry, who happen upon each other through fate or by chance. Jack and Ruby alternately tell the story of their marriage, painting a picture of deep and varied color. They speak of the everyday events that shaped their lives, their shared philosophies, and their different approaches to problem-solving. This creates a crystal-clear picture of a deep and abiding marriage of both body and soul. But late in the novel, Ruby dies of lung cancer, and Jack is left alone with his recollections and his grief. Gibbons (Ellen Foster, Audio Reviews, LJ 10/15/98) crafts a moving but unsentimental picture of the perfect couple. Her dialog and description, beautifully narrated by Ruth Ann Phimister and Tom Stechschulte, are stunning in their ability to captivate and connect with the reader. Highly recommended.Joanna M. Burkhardt, Univ. of Rhode Island Coll. of Continuing Education Lib., Providence
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Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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This book did not really touch me or changed my life. But it made me realize something - When it comes to love, no matter what or how high we set our standard for the "man of our dreams", ultimately in the end, we will want a man who would take care of us and love us unconditionally. And surprise surprise, it may come for the most unexpected source
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I LOVED Ellen Foster .... for the story and the style.... many southern people really talk like this, very real... but this one was FULL of distasteful language and the main characters made fun on Christianity a lot, which really bothered me.
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In my opinion, this book was certainly not a must-read or a "rare gem" or a highly-recommendable book, as the earlier people who reviewed this book wrote. Neither is it a book that is so horrible it can't be finished, or one that damns Oprah's selections forever (though I must say I don't let daytime talk show hosts dictate my book selections), as more recent reviewers leaned.
First of all, I'm shocked by all of the reviewers who seem to be equating a depressing book with one that's not worth reading. Some of the best books ever are quite sad. To all those people, I say: go buy a magazine, a trashy romance novel or a comic book. Furthermore, although I did almost cry a couple of times, I didn't find this book depressing at all. It was a sad story--of Ruby's abuse and then of her dying--but the love between Ruby and Jack made this more of a love story than anything else. I liked the switching back and forth of narrators, and I especially liked that Ruby and Jack were speaking from different time periods, too. I liked reading about Jack's life following Ruby's death in one section, and then reading about Ruby preparing for her death in the next. I found her preparation of months' worth of food for Jack touching, and it was very clear throughout how much the couple loved each other. Whether this was based on true love or on need, as some reviewers suggest, is debatable, but does not speak to the strength of the connection between them, which I felt was very powerful.
I think a lot of Southern literature is tough for readers from other parts of the country/world, and this novel is no different. However, isn't that why people read? To learn about experiences not just of people and surroundings very similar to their own, but of different types of people from different parts of the world, with different lifestyles, perspectives, vocabularies, accents, values, interests and lives?
I'm planning on reading "Ellen Foster," as that seems much better received.........
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Sheer poetry, a gem
I never knew this was an Oprah selection. What I found was a truly exquisite gem of a book. Kaye Gibbons is a master writer, her novel A Virtuous Woman is a poetic work of art. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 24. Juni 2000 veröffentlicht
fiction but not fairytale
Within the short span of 165 pages, Gibbons is able to capture the psychological and emotional dynamics between Ruby and Jack. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 15. Mai 2000 von hazel
A different kind of good read
I had a little trouble in the beginning with the writing style. As I read further things started to fall into place. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 24. Februar 2000 veröffentlicht
It was OK
While I wasn't fully moved my the book, I did feel that Gibbons dipiction of love was quite accurate. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 21. Januar 2000 von Sheandra Clark
Boring
I kept waitng for something to happen. I still don't understand the point of it all. If it's a love story, it's an odd one.
Am 30. November 1999 veröffentlicht
Wonderful, beautiful story of love
I don't care if Ruby and Jack were together for true love or for need, but this novel was a definite story about love of some sort. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 27. Oktober 1999 von Dianna Johnston
A GOOD book to read!!
I thought that the book was good, It was confusing in the beginning, but in the end the pieces seem to fall together. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 18. Oktober 1999 veröffentlicht
Could Not Put The Book Down!!!!!!!!!
I found this novel not only intriguing but a good lesson for all of us in society today. Money does not buy or make happiness. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 9. September 1999 veröffentlicht
Could Not Put The Book Down!!!!!!!!!
I found this novel not only intriguing but a good lesson for all of us in society today. Money does not buy or make happiness. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 9. September 1999 veröffentlicht
This book didn't do anything for me.
I read it because there were so many good reviews, but I just didn't think it was that good. I definitely didn't like the writing style. Thumbs down for this one.
Am 5. August 1999 veröffentlicht
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