- Taschenbuch: 304 Seiten
- Verlag: Flamingo; Auflage: New Ed (21. Oktober 2002)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0007114915
- ISBN-13: 978-0007114917
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 19,2 x 12,8 x 2 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 3.5 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (4 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.168.652 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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After spending his productive years in a monastery near his childhood home, 80-year-old Brendan Auberon is now confined to a wheelchair and a nursing home, where his family pay him occasional obligatory visits. When Brendan convinces his nephew Henry to help him return to the home of his youth, now covered by a reservoir supplying water to the city of Boston, Brendan steals the nursing home van for the adventure. The trip doesn't turn out as planned, but with Brendan and Henry on the run, and various family members in pursuit, it is anything but dull; Brendan, through his last capricious act, serves as the catalyst to set errant family members on the right path again. Barrett ( The Middle Kingdom , LJ 2/1/91) combines family dissension and adventure with healthy doses of faith and optimism. The result is a satisfying analysis of family dysfunction in the spirit of Sue Miller.
- Thomas L. Kilpatrick, Southern Illinois Univ. at Carbondale Lib.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
- Thomas L. Kilpatrick, Southern Illinois Univ. at Carbondale Lib.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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'Subtle and strong!Barrett's talents shine!Barrett not only gets the geographical terrain right, she has the emotional terrain down as well. Her writing!is insidious and fluid and as clean as a Berkshire stream. Long after the book has been shelved you'll find yourself thinking of Brendan, a crowning achievement for any writer.' Detroit News 'Barrett returns with her speciality -- a story about the tangled web of a family told in prose that's spun smooth as silk!The strength this time around lies in Barrett's fine writing and the haunting power of the water, rising to fill that reservoir. It was a real event, but like the best of fiction writers, Barrett makes it more than real.' Kirkus Reviews
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HENRY AUBERON, NEARING FIFTY AND WITHOUT A CAR, SAT IN a shabby living room that didn't belong to him. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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Format:Taschenbuch
The Forms of Water advances the use of metaphor into an elaborate understanding the states of life. I saw elements of the characters in myself (sometimes unsettlingly so), and I understood the meaning of various forms of water that may seem to some a remote reference, but can also draw one deeper into the significance of the story. I read it straight through, unable to stop.
Format:Taschenbuch
I can't imagine anyone actually getting through this book. I had the feeling it was going nowhere a third of the way in. Generic characters dressed up to resemble something closer to life, plodding pace, pointless events (many of them spent in fast food places), dreary dialogue. It's supposed to be about a dying ex-monk who wants to go back to his old monastery (now sunk beneath a dammed lake), but why he feels compelled to make the journey, what dying and old age are like, what this man feels or knows, his history, have all eluded this writer who makes do with "sensitive" writing. This puts her in the ranks of so many deservedly unread writers of sensibility we seem to be churning out in great numbers. Andrea, my advice is to write only when you have something to say.
Format:Taschenbuch
This book is really about the effect of the early death of parents on the subsequent generations. Brendan is a secondary character; his journey is the wheel around which the book turns. The true protagonists of the book are the following 2 generations, whose lives are profoundly disturbed by the early deaths of Brendan's brother and sister-in-law. I kept thinking about this book long after I'd finished it.
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