Jane Rusbridge
Autor(a) de Rook
About the Author
Obras por Jane Rusbridge
Associated Works
Fish Anthology 2006 — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
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Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Rusbridge, Jane
- Sexo
- female
- Ocupações
- teacher
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 2
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 64
- Popularidade
- #264,968
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 2
- ISBN
- 8
- Marcado como favorito
- 1
For the first quarter of the novel, I thought it might be about a woman is mental disturbed and that the author similarly was. But I’ll leave that up in the air. I am a male – a gay male – and nudging 75 years. Along with and perhaps a might better than Virginia Wolff in her brilliant ‘To the Lighthouse’ this novel is revelatory. At the quarter mark the Canute and Harold part come in and there is then an interplay between the present and Nora and Ada’s lives. In the end, for me, this was a novel of the temperament, intelligence, disposition and view within the experience of women and of their world and the place they see men, as an add on, in it. And that vision; that cognisant knowledge of the world and of men in it , I’d have to say, is utterly different to how men experience the world and also how men think women experience reality.
To that end I hope more men might read this novel.… (mais)