Evening (Movie Tie-in Edition) (Vintage Contemporaries): Amazon.de: Susan Minot: Englische Bücher

Taschenbuch: 288 Seiten
Verlag: Vintage; Auflage: Trade Paperback. (1. Mai 2007)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0307387127
ISBN-13: 978-0307387127
Gr��e und/oder Gewicht: 13,2 x 1,6 x 20,2 cm

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Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.167.716 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)

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As Ann Lord lies on her deathbed, her daughter delivers a balsam pillow from the attic. At first the ailing woman is confused, but suddenly the scent reminds her of the "wild tumult" she experienced 40 years earlier:

Something stole into her as she walked in the dark, a dream she'd had long ago. The air was so black she was unable to see her arms, it was a warm summer night. Above her she could make out the dark line of the tops of spruce trees and a sky lit with stars. She felt the warm tar through the soles of her shoes. The boy beside her took her hand.

In the porous world between conscious and unconscious the protagonist of Evening revisits the great passions of her life, along with its considerable disappointments. The boy in the dark remains the fixed point--not so much because he is the most important man in her life, but because of the untapped possibilities he represents. Meanwhile, friends and relations come to sit by Ann Lord's side as she veers between clarity and feverish recollection.

In her third novel, Susan Minot takes some new risks--her narrative spanning seven decades of memory and her style ranging from Stegneresque particularity to the exquisite abstraction Virginia Woolf perfected in To the Lighthouse. Equal parts memory and desire, fiction and poetry, Evening is a seductive story made more so by the measured pace of details emerging, one by one, like stars. --Cristina Del Sesto -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verf�gbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

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Something stole into her as she walked in the dark, a dream she'd had long ago. The air was so black she was unable to see her arms, it was a warm summer night. Above her she could make out the dark line of the tops of spruce trees and a sky lit with stars. She felt the warm tar through the soles of her shoes. The boy beside her took her hand.

In her third novel, Susan Minot takes some new risks--her narrative spanning seven decades of memory and her style ranging from Stegneresque particularity to the exquisite abstraction Virginia Woolf perfected in To the Lighthouse. Equal parts memory and desire, fiction and poetry, Evening is a seductive story made more so by the measured pace of details emerging, one by one, like stars. --Cristina Del Sesto -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verf�gbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

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Some Won't Get It 22. Februar 2000

Von Kay

Format:Taschenbuch

I read through the review's of other readers and just felt the need to comment. Some didn't "get" Susan Minot's style. It's not just a little bit like James Joyce,(no slouch)and it seemed very correct when trying to capture the thoughts and feelings of a woman in her final dance with life and death -- not to mention morphine. I had no trouble with it, although it required a bit of "letting go"....which I enjoyed.

I do think that anyone who has closely witnessed a loved one endure the lonely passing of life to cancer, might be strongly affected, as I was, by this book. I saw that another reader was annoyed by the seemingly "perfect" life had by Ann. Perfect? Somehow that escaped me. Besides, the point was that it comes down to this...it ends for all of us. We are alone, truly, as we die. While others hover around us, what is left is only a reflection of the life we lived and the choices we made. No one really *knew* Ann,except Ann,although many people had loved her. She had regrets that haunted her,and lots of "what if's" to deal with as she "conversed" with Harris, the one it all boiled back down to. It tugged at my heart deeply, and I look forward to anything else Susan Minot might write.

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Disappointing and Tiresome 21. M�rz 2000

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I had such a hard time reading Evening. The premise fascinated me, but I just found it dull. I didn't so much mind the shifts in tense, but at times the story got so jumbled that I had a hard time keeping the characters and the time periods straight. I had heard such great things about this book, but in the end, I was simply disappointed.

Tedious, attenuated tale based on romantic cliche 18. Mai 1999

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Minot lumbers her way through present and past, teasing out the wedding weekend exasperatingly. I was skimming the sick room scenes, then even the scenes of the past. I kept thinking "Bridges of Madison County," except here it was three days instead of four. Plus, if you want to be lauded for aesthetic sensibilities, surely you, or your editor, ought to get some rudimentary grammar right--the right verb forms for lay and lie, using ground, rather than grinded for the past tense of ground, and a million alright misuses. It's ALL RIGHT. These pesky irritants were like mosquitoes swarming over an already unsavory bog.