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A carregar... The Enchanted Life of Adam Hopepor Rhonda Riley
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. If you are good at suspending disbelief, if you enjoy something completely different, if you liked [b:The Time Traveler's Wife|18619684|The Time Traveler's Wife|Audrey Niffenegger|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1380660571s/18619684.jpg|2153746], you will be captivated by [b:The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope|15818218|The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope|Rhonda Riley|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1359388627s/15818218.jpg|21548311]. First, I have to give Rhonda Riley high praise for coming up with such an unusual and fantastical premise and grounding it so beautifully in ordinary life. Evelyn literally pulls a naked stranger from the mud during a torrential rainstorm one night, only discovering later that this 'person' is not human. However "A" soon becomes her closest friend - and eventually her lover - a relationship divides her from her family and small town neighbors even as she outwardly seems no different. Their lives unfold over the course of decades: raising a family, dealing with the occasional but vivid episodes of Adam's strangeness bursting into daily life. In many ways this could be a very ordinary tale of love, family, and change, but Adam's presence prevents it from ever being ordinary. Riley is a skilled writer, creating a sense of time and place without getting weighed down in details, keeping the story moving at a gentle, quiet, but inexorable pace through the years. At the end of the book, we know Evelyn inside and out. . . but some mysteries remain veiled - and that's okay. Interesting premise for a book and the author did a good job working out the implications, but it reminded me too much of Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. It had the same themes of a wife in love with a husband who is not who others think he is, similar motherly concern for the children who are a mix of human and otherness, etc. I enjoyed the how the characters had to deal with the concept of otherness in a different time-period - during and after WWII - and I did really enjoy Rhonda Riley's writing style. I wouldn't recommend this book wholeheartedly, but it definitely was an interesting read. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
During World War II, teenager Evelyn Roe is sent to manage the family farm in rural North Carolina, where she finds what she takes to be a badly burned soldier on their property. She rescues him, and it quickly becomes clear he is not a man...and not one of us. The rescued body recovers at an unnatural speed, and just as fast, Evelyn and Adam fall deeply in love. The author reveals the exhilarating, terrifying mystery inherent in all relationships: No matter how deeply we love someone, and no matter how much we will sacrifice for them, we can only know them so well. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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