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Gebundene Ausgabe: 309 Seiten
Verlag: Harpercollins (M�rz 1996)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0060171103
ISBN-13: 978-0060171100
Gr��e und/oder Gewicht: 21,2 x 14,2 x 3 cm

Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.4 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (7 Kundenrezensionen)

Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.269.012 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)

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Hood is a tale of love between two Catholic women in Dublin, Ireland--a country in which homosexuality still largely dares not speak its name openly. Cara's sudden death at 30 leaves bereaved Penelope shocked, grieving, reliving their 14-year relationship, which Donoghue covers in a series of overlapping flashbacks, from the time the two met in convent school in the late seventies to the early nineties, when they lived together in Cara's father's home. Funeral preparations and postburial returns to "normalcy" alternate with Pen's recollections of the moody, tempestuous Cara. These memories include screamingly good sex muffled from Cara's father's ears; Cara's repeated forays into other women's and men's beds; day-to-day routines the two shared, including Cara's maddening habit of asking life's larger questions as they drift to sleep at night; and, most important, Pen's development into a coping but vulnerable adult. Although some may find it slow, others will consider this love story that well conveys the complexities and nuances of intimate relationships stately and elegiac. Whitney Scott

From Kirkus Reviews

This second novel by Donoghue (Stir-fry, 1994) offers an elegiac reconstruction of a long love affair and a fascinating portrait of lesbian society in modern Ireland. Bright, self-assured, dependable Pen O'Grady first meets neurotic, alluring, exasperating Cara while both are in convent school. The two quickly become fast friends and, more gradually, lovers. Donoghue offers a wry, sharply observed portrait of the manner in which the adolescent Pen and Cara come to terms with their sexuality, the mingled fear and exuberance of their discovery, the conflicting pressures to hide and proclaim their love. Their physical passion (``a blur of bliss across the brain'') turns out to be the simplest part of the relationship. Cara, restless, romantic, scornful of the more mundane elements of life (Living, Pen says, ``seemed to be more of a battle for Cara than anyone I knew'') seems driven to wander: She repeatedly breaks off the affair, pursues (sometimes disastrously) other women, yet always eventually returns to the tart but forgiving Pen. She is returning yet again, after a brief fling, when she dies in an accident. The novel is essentially a monologue as, from the perspective of the week in which her lover is buried, Pen, alternately angry or despairing, looks back over their 14-year relationship, reconstructing it, attempting to make some sense of their lives together. Pen ruefully admits that she has always been ``solid,'' dependable, even predictable. But Donoghue does a deft job of catching Pen's wry intelligence and intense romanticism, the deep certainty she has in her identity. She is less successful with Cara, who remains a somewhat enigmatic figure: It's uncertain whether Cara is merely intensely self-absorbed or a generous, tormented figure. Fortunately, though, it's Pen who dominates this spare, powerful narrative. Her unsparing record of a difficult, intense, vital affair, and her meditations on the nature of desire, are exact and profoundly moving. -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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Breathtaking! 14. Juli 2000

Von Carla Hollars

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I want all of her books! This is a story you don't want to end. It covers all ranges of human emotion with a twist. I regret that the majority of lesbians in this book enjoy more bed hopping than stable, loving relationships. The main character of the book is so identifiable, so loving that I cried when she cried and laughed when she laughed! I would recommend this book to all of my friends!

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Mesmerizing 8. Juni 2000

Von "inbookland"

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I bought this book on a whim when living in London and wound up writing numerous essays on it for my graduate degree. The book is poignant and true--the pain that Pen feels for the loss of Cara, as well as the realization that her identity has been lost both by being with Cara and with being widowed suddenly, is heartbreaking for anyone to read, gay or straight.

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beautiful fiction 9. Januar 2000

Von Gale E. Davy

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This is one of the finest works of fiction that I have read in quite a while. Usually I do not read "lesbian" fiction as I take my disappointment with the writing much too personally. This book is so painfully sad, and yet so beautifully evocative that I rank it among my favorites of all authors. This writer - new to me with this read - is outstanding - and I am ordering her other books.

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