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A carregar... Eggshells (original 2014; edição 2017)por Caitriona Lally (Autor)
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Books Read in 2017 (3,764) Interpersonal Novels (61) Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. ![]() ![]() I just finished Eggshells by Caitriona Lally which won the Rooney Prize for "an outstanding body of work by an emerging Irish writer under forty years of age" in 2018. I have to say, when I first started reading this book I wondered what kind of idiot would award it a prize of any sort. If you like lists of anything you can think of, this is the book for you. This is a stream of consciousness novel about Vivian who considers herself a changling and spends her days trying to find a portal to send her back to where she belongs. I think she's autistic and she is alone in a home left her by her aunt. I think she lives "on the dole" because she does have a social service worker who keeps urging her to look for jobs. By alone, I mean this woman is able to live her life exactly as she wants, but she has no one to help her figure out how that should be. However, this is better than it could be - once she had parents who put her in a fire, changling that she is, to send her to her own country and get their real daughter back. So far, alone is better than that. She does have a sister, also named Vivian, who finds her quite distasteful. She also finds herself distasteful, evidently, because she will not look in a mirror; however, her very strong body odor is comforting to her. She will very occasionally bathe or wash her hair, but she prefers the way she smells without doing so. She writes up an ad for a friend and puts it on a tree, voila, she gets one as smelly and disoriented as she. She likes having a friend, within limits. She needs lots of alone time. Her behaviors in a 6-year-old would seem cute and precocious, but she's a gray-haired woman. It's a pretty short book, worth reading just for the novelty. I loved this book. Do not look for a plot, but rather think of James Joyce's Ulysses. This is a tale of Vivian's character and quirky personality. My daughter has lived in Dublin for the last three years attending university, so I visit often. My walking knowledge of Dublin helped to bring Vivian's travels alive in my minds eye. I recommend Eggshells without reservation. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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Vivian doesn't feel like she fits in - and never has. As a child, she was so whimsical that her parents told her she was "left by fairies." Now, living alone in Dublin, the neighbors treat her like she's crazy, her older sister condescends to her, social workers seem to have registered her as troubled, and she hasn't a friend in the world. So, she decides it's time to change her life: She begins by advertising for a friend. Not just any friend. She wants one named Penelope. Meanwhile, she roams the city, mapping out a new neighborhood every day, seeking her escape route to a better world, the other world her parents told her she came from. And then one day someone named Penelope answers her ad for a friend. And from that moment on, Vivian's life begins to change. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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