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Lives of Girls and Women: A Novel
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?Munro has an unerring talent for uncovering the extraordinary in the ordinary.??Newsweek
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The only novel from Alice Munro-award-winning author of The Love of a Good Woman--is an insightful, honest book, "autobiographical in form but not in fact," that chronicles a young girl's growing up in rural Ontario in the 1940's.
Del Jordan lives out at the end of the Flats Road on her father's fox farm, where her most frequent companions are an eccentric bachelor family friend and her rough younger brother. When she begins spending more time in town, she is surrounded by women-her mother, an agnostic, opinionted woman who sells encyclopedias to local farmers; her mother's boarder, the lusty Fern Dogherty; and her best friend, Naomi, with whom she shares the frustrations and unbridled glee of adolescence.
Through these unwitting mentors and in her own encounters with sex, birth, and death, Del explores the dark and bright sides of womanhood. All along she remains a wise, witty observer and recorder of truths in small-town life. The result is a powerful, moving, and humorous demonstration of Alice Munro's unparalleled awareness of the lives of girls and women.
Del Jordan lives out at the end of the Flats Road on her father's fox farm, where her most frequent companions are an eccentric bachelor family friend and her rough younger brother. When she begins spending more time in town, she is surrounded by women-her mother, an agnostic, opinionted woman who sells encyclopedias to local farmers; her mother's boarder, the lusty Fern Dogherty; and her best friend, Naomi, with whom she shares the frustrations and unbridled glee of adolescence.
Through these unwitting mentors and in her own encounters with sex, birth, and death, Del explores the dark and bright sides of womanhood. All along she remains a wise, witty observer and recorder of truths in small-town life. The result is a powerful, moving, and humorous demonstration of Alice Munro's unparalleled awareness of the lives of girls and women.
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Del Jordan wächst in den vierziger Jahren in einem kleinen Ort in Kanada auf. Das Kleinstadtleben nimmt sie vollkommen gefangen, und unglaublich ehrlich wird von der komplizierten Beziehung zwischen ihren Eltern zum Beispiel berichtet.
Del erzählt ihre Geschichte sachlich und mit weniger Sentimentalität, als man erwarten würde. Ganz kühl blickt sie auf teilweise traumatische Ereignisse, und zeigt durch ihren Erzählstil, was sie als Kind gesehen und verstanden hat. Gerade dadurch wird ihr Stil so authentisch!
Eine schöne Geschichte, in der die uns allen bekannten Themen (z.B. Entfremdung von alten Schulfreunden) auf eine schöne und ehrliche Art erzählt und verarbeitet werden.
Am Ende ist man traurig, Del zurück zu lassen. Man hätte sie gern noch weiter durch ihr Leben begleitet!
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Del erzählt ihre Geschichte sachlich und mit weniger Sentimentalität, als man erwarten würde. Ganz kühl blickt sie auf teilweise traumatische Ereignisse, und zeigt durch ihren Erzählstil, was sie als Kind gesehen und verstanden hat. Gerade dadurch wird ihr Stil so authentisch!
Eine schöne Geschichte, in der die uns allen bekannten Themen (z.B. Entfremdung von alten Schulfreunden) auf eine schöne und ehrliche Art erzählt und verarbeitet werden.
Am Ende ist man traurig, Del zurück zu lassen. Man hätte sie gern noch weiter durch ihr Leben begleitet!
Ehrlich lesenswert!!
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Alice Munro is a not simply a writer of short stories. She is one of the best, if not the best author of short stories. If you start to read "lives of girls and women", you will notice that it is - at least in the first part - a follow-up of short stories. This is changing at a certain point and you get a feeling for the book as one novel.
I enjoyed this book, actually, I did enjoyed it a lot.
It is still high above average. But I prefer Alice Munro's short stories.
I enjoyed this book, actually, I did enjoyed it a lot.
It is still high above average. But I prefer Alice Munro's short stories.
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A classic coming of age story with a twist.
17. Juni 2002
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Alice Munro is truly the master of the short story. "Lives of Girls and Women" deserves to be on everyone's list of must-read books. Munro is an exceptionally talented writer, one who can take ordinary situations and turn them into something wonderful. Here, she presents a traditional coming of age story, then spices it up with her own unique brand of dry, subtle wit and a host of zany characters. In "Lives," we follow Dell Jordan from childhood to young adulthood as she struggles with her identity in a small town in southern Ontario. Along the way, we meet many colorful characters, including Dell's Baptist boyfriend, her social outcast mother, a suicidal music teacher, and a lecherous friend of the family. "Lives" is more of a collection of short stories than a novel, but each story is like a puzzle piece. In the end, each piece fits together to create a massize jigsaw puzzle of Dell's life. I have read "Lives" three times, and it is one of my favorite books - addictive, humorous, and thoroughly enjoyable.
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Great literature - Munro is a master structuralist
21. Mai 2002
Format:Taschenbuch
What an amazing book! This not merely a good book for middle-aged women, or good instruction for girls, or any such claptrap. To label Munro as good "women's lit" is demeaning to women and demeaning to "The Lives of Girls and Women." (Plus it makes men who enjoy reading her a bit funny.) It's a great book! In any category!
Munro is a master of characterization and narrative structure. Del's description of her mother, for example, reveals: (1) Del's feeling of discomfort at her own place within Jubilee's hierarchy and environment; Del wants to fit in, and her mother embodies the eccentric within her own self. (2) Del's mother's strengths, pulling herself from abject poverty, putting herself through school, starting her own business in conservative postwar rural Canada - this woman evokes our admiration, despite the disgust of our narrator. It's these multidimensional portraits that makes Munro so great - yes, a character (Del's mother) can earn our admiration, disgust, and pity all at once...
Then in the building of conflict, Munro ALWAYS surprises us. Every scene is fresh, new, interesting, every culmination of conflict resolves in ways we would never expect. Take the time when Del was being molested by her mother's boarder's boyfriend. One day she goes off with him in his car out to the country, and we're expecting some "Bastard Out of Carolina" child-raping exploitation and subsequent weepy victim hood. But Munro makes a left at the light, has the man simply masturbate in front of the child, who for her part is excited, charmed, and repelled by the sight and is grateful to be introduced to the mystery of the penis.
And lastly, Munro refuses to depict her women in the same, old tired way. Her women are not dragged around by the hand by handsome strangers, as they so often are in movies. Her women are not victims of rape, incest, or peer pressure, as in way too many contemporary novels. No, Munro's women are real. They have drive, ambition, and a deep desire to be seen as people.
Definitely one of my favorite books, ever.
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REALISTIC AND BRILLIANT
22. September 1999
Format:Taschenbuch
I was forced to read this book during the final exams for my H.S.C. but actually found that it was very enjoyable. It is the touching story of a young girl growing up in Canada in the 40s, who yearns to be an artist, and her journey towards womanhood. The format of the story is unique and the characters are likeable and real enough to believe in. This is a well-told semi-autobiographical novel which stays in the memory long after it's has been read.
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