- Taschenbuch: 356 Seiten
- Verlag: Harper Collins USA; Auflage: 1st HarperPerennial Ed (Mai 1997)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0060928336
- ISBN-13: 978-0060928339
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 20,1 x 13,5 x 1,8 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 3.9 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (795 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 328.080 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Siddalee Walker's mother Vivi disowns her daughter when a reporter, who interviews the 40-year-old, successful director, describes her mother as a "tap dancing child abuser". Devastated, Sidda postpones her wedding. The Ya-Yas, Vivi's strong circle of friends since childhood, are horrified and agree to send Siddalee the scrapbook of "Divine Secrets" to try and help her to understand her mother and herself.
Sidda submerges herself in the wild, wondrous and wicked world of the Ya-Yas as she reads through half-a-century's worth of letters and clippings contained in the Ya-Ya Sisterhood's parcel of "Divine Secrets". Middle-class Louisiana quakes as the quartet makes its way through adolescence: from being disqualified from the Shirley-Temple-look-a-like competition because Teensy did a "poot", to attending the premiere of Gone with the Wind in Atlanta, only for Vivi's hoop skirt, "much to her confusion, to go entirely over the head of the person sitting in the seat in front of her", to spending a night in jail after floating naked on a hot southern evening in the town's water cooler.
Rebecca Wells, author of Little Altars Everywhere (in which Siddalee Walker describes the anguishes of childhood), has created a beautifully crafted, penetrating insight into society, friendship, the mother/daughter divide and religion. No subject is taboo as you dip in and out of the lives of Vivi, Teensy, Caro and Necie--the Ya Yas. --Nicola Perry -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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Wells is a Louisiana-born Seattle actress and playwright; her loopy saga of a 40-year-old player in Seattle's hot theater scene who must come to terms with her mama's past in steamy Thornton City, Louisiana, reads like a lengthy episode of Designing Women written under the influence of mint juleps and Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!. The Ya-Yas are the wild circle of girls who swirl around the narrator Siddalee's mama, Vivi, whose vivid voice is "part Scarlett, part Katharine Hepburn, part Tallulah." The Ya-Yas broke the no-booze rule at the cotillion, skinny-dipped their way to jail in the town water tower, disrupted the Shirley Temple look-alike contest, and bonded for life because, as one says, "It's so much fun being a bad girl!"
Siddalee must repair her busted relationship with Vivi by reading a half-century's worth of letters and clippings contained in the Ya-Ya Sisterhood's packet of "Divine Secrets." It's a contrived premise, but the secrets are really fun to learn.
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Das Buch mit dem etwas sperrigen Titel erzählt die Geschichte der Ya-Yas, einer Gruppe von Freundinnen in den Südstaaten der USA. Sie beginnt in den 30er Jahren und erstreckt sich insgesamt über mehrere Jahrzehnte. Man wird als Leser in eine ganz eigene Welt entführt und kommt nicht umhin, mit den Ya-Yas mit zu lieben und zu leiden. Ein Frauenroman im allerbesten Sinne des Wortes.
(Kleiner Nachtrag: Zwischenzeitlich habe ich die Verfilmung mit Sandra Bullock gesehen. Die ist wirklich völlig missglückt und hat mit dem Buch kaum noch etwas zu tun.)
(Kleiner Nachtrag: Zwischenzeitlich habe ich die Verfilmung mit Sandra Bullock gesehen. Die ist wirklich völlig missglückt und hat mit dem Buch kaum noch etwas zu tun.)
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If you read "Little Altars Everywhere", you will be glad to know that "Divine Secrets" takes a look at the life of Siddalee Walker from the distance of heavily analyzed adulthood. "Divine Secrets" focuses once again on Siddalee, but this time she is a 40-year old successful stage director who is taking some time out from her career and her love life to put to rest some old ghosts.
After having humiliated her mother in national print (a New York Times reporter calls Viviane Walker "a tap dancing child abuser"), Siddalee is gifted with her mother's scrapbook, which, in Vivane Walker's typically outrageous style, has been named "The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood". Viviane sends Siddalee this volume of personal mementos in an effort to have Siddalee understand her better without having to put any personal effort into the process.
Inside this scrapbook, Siddalee discovers bits and pieces of her mother's past - pictures, newspapaer articles, mementos - but she is not granted the entire story surrounding each of these titilating fragments. The reader is able to learn, through Viviane's own memory, all of the interesting details that Siddalee doesn't get to know.
This, I feel, is the greatest weekness in "Divine Secrets". The reader gets to see Viviane as a child and an adolescent, living in a home where she is abused by her father and openly detested by her mother. We learn about the death in WWII of Viviane's first and only love and the stresses put on her by having four stair-step children and an absentee husband. Siddalee, however, is not privy to any of this information. She reads tantalizing tidbits in newspaper articles, gleans what meaning she can from photographs, party invitations, and mysterious keys, but never knows any of the details the reader does. Because of this, it is difficult for me to believe that in the end of the novel Siddalee can forgive Viviane her many transgressions. It doesn't seem to me that she has enough information to be that magnanimous.
Other than this one flaw, "Divine Secrets" is a beautiful book. The women in this novel are fully realized characters - I recognized each one of these women, and even grew up with some of them (but not all of them together, thank goodness!). The descriptions of Louisiana are rich and detailed, and as much as I hate a crustaceon, I was dreaming of crawfish for days after turning the last page.
"Divine Secrets" is about forgiveness and the power of love. Rebecca Wells is brave to offer up a novel filled with women who are real enough to not always be likable (in fact, Viviane is almost never likable), and she is a talented enough word smith to keep these women sympathetic. "Divine Secrets" is a soothing, redeeming follow up to "Little Altars", and I recommend it. Throw some Zydeco on the stereo and curl up with a cup of java - this one will keep you up all night!
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The fact that it is the author herself who performs made me even more curious about this audio book, especially since I was looking forward to a Southern accent. Unfortunately, the author's performance really disappointed me. Her accent is lovely to listen to, but the rest of her performance really made me long for a trained performer. Wells reads way too fast and sometimes eats up syllables at the end of words. Her voice goes from hardly audible and overly sweet (whenever she reads positive, loving emotions) to hysterically loud whenever she wants to demonstrate strength. While she has a nice voice, she does not keep it in a range that is pleasant to listen to.
I had a hard time adjusting the volume of my stereo to this range. After turning it up and down several times - having to rewind several times after passages I just couldn't hear, lowering the volume again when a more hysterical passage was being read - I just gave up on it. I didn't even finish the first CD, the listening experience was too unpleasant.
Wells has a lovely voice, but she should have been coached better when she performed this book.
I had a hard time adjusting the volume of my stereo to this range. After turning it up and down several times - having to rewind several times after passages I just couldn't hear, lowering the volume again when a more hysterical passage was being read - I just gave up on it. I didn't even finish the first CD, the listening experience was too unpleasant.
Wells has a lovely voice, but she should have been coached better when she performed this book.
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A beautiful book but main character falls flat
This book is lyrically, beautifully written and really brings the South alive. Also it offers a wonderful insight into friends, family and how daughters never really know their... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 8. März 2004 von L. Schroeder
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
I found this book to be very boring. I did not care for the characters and felt the stories within the story to be extremely long-winded & unrealistic. A big dissapointment.
Veröffentlicht am 1. August 2000 von "shell2128"
Growing up Southern...
The South is oft hard to capture in the pages of a book... yet Rebecca Wells catches the South easily with her writing and hands it to us to peruse, dream of, and encounter. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 1. August 2000 von bibliophile
Too Much Ya-Ya
I liked this book, but I didn't fall in love with it. I probably will not read it again. I was very involved with the family struggles and the emotional plight of the main... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 28. Juli 2000 veröffentlicht
Enjoyable but long on words, short on story line ...
The main theme is the difficult mother-daughter relationship and its many twists and turns. The Ya-Ya sisters are eternal friends who have connected doing girl to gal to grown up... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 24. Juli 2000 von Bernadette A. Moyer
YaYa no.
I read this book beacause of my book group, which I think is the only reason I finished it. First of all I think it's way too long. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 20. Juli 2000 von Johanna Lindback
Disappointing -- the "girls" didn't resonate with me
I tried. I really wanted to like the book. But after 50 pages I just couldn't force my way through it any further. Donated to the library. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 17. Juli 2000 von D. H. Owen
this was such a great read...
I'll admit that this isn't an absolutely perfect tour de force that will make a huge imprint in the literary community, but this book made a huge imprint on me. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 15. Juli 2000 von Candice
this was such a great read...
I'll admit that this isn't an absolutely perfect tour de force that will make a huge imprint in the literary community, but this book made a huge imprint on me. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 15. Juli 2000 von Candice
A Dissenting Review!
It's a good thing I'm hidden behind a keyboard, as I fear I may risk attack by publishing the fact that I think that this book had little to offer! Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 14. Juli 2000 von Catherine M. Butler
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