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A carregar... A Perfectly Good Manpor Patrick Gale
   Nenhum(a) Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.   ) Stephen.Lawton | Aug 7, 2021 |   ) karenshann | Dec 31, 2019 | ) simbaandjessie | Aug 13, 2019 | The author conveys the story with some exploration of motives, life decisions, insight into family relationships, explaining the flaws of humanity and the behavior of the characters he developed. The story was well planned out and very easy to read even though the author went back and forth with the time span until near the end when everything came together. The book was written with many characters narrating throughout the book. The author started his collaborating dialogue with the main character, Barnaby Johnson, a priest and Lenny Barns, a twenty-year-old paralyzed former rugby player who wanted Barnaby to pray for him while he committed suicide. The rest of the story introduces other characters that live in the small parish area. I learned a lot about Barnaby, his family and some of the reasons he became a priest. However, I don’t know why people called him “A Perfectly Good Man” when he had many flaws or should I say sins that were opened to the public for all to know and see. Parts of the story I found interesting but I felt a slow pace uninteresting and confusing section through the middle of the book but it did come together at the end with understanding and a message of love, morality and faith…. A life in a parish setting. (  ) Juan-banjo | May 31, 2016 |  ) oldblack | May 9, 2016 |
 Unnoticeably well-written, cleverly constructed with a narrative that moves from one character to another and backwards and forwards in time, this is a thoughtful and moving novel about love, morality and faith. Marvellous.  At his best, Gale is an effortlessly elastic storyteller, a writer with heart, soul, and a dark and naughty wit, one whose company you relish and trust. In fact you feel you would believe anything he told you – and if I have a small complaint, it's that he sometimes doesn't quite seem to realise it, doesn't trust in his own genuine power. Now and then he writes a little too hard, too carefully or too deliberately. Relax, you want to tell him. Trust yourself, because we do. Do less, because what you do is already so effective. But it's a minor quibble in a novel which managed to upset and uplift me in equal measure, and which kept me company – and kept me guessing – right through to its slightly bitter and heartfelt end. 'What Gale does so well is to delineate the unpremeditated spider-web consequences of actions, most particularly those where the intentions are apparently perfectly "good". The unfolding nightmare for all the family of the consequences of adopting are exquisitely and painfully documented! ... The final chapter left me with a lump in my throat' Prémios
When 20-year-old Lenny Barnes, paralysed in a rugby accident, commits suicide in the presence of Barnaby Johnson, the much-loved priest of a West Cornwall parish, the tragedy's reverberations open up the fault lines between Barnaby and his nearest and dearest. Their personal stories illuminate Barnaby's ostensibly happy life, and the gulfs of unspoken sadness that separate them all. Across this web of relations scuttles Barnaby's repellent nemesis - a man as wicked as his prey is virtuous. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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 Google Books — A carregar...GénerosSistema Decimal de Melvil (DDC)823.92Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 2000-Classificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos EUA (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia: (3.85)
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