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A carregar... True Confessions: The Novelpor Mary Bringle
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"Grace Peacock is a woman with a secret, and she guards it in a world inhabited by ex-husbands, loving and non-loving, a host of raffish friends, an imaginary daughter, a mother who loves her to death, and an ex-mother-in-law who still doesn't approve. The truth is that Grace longs for the world of true romance stories - those brave fables in which women sin, suffer, repent, and are always redeemed. Surely her own life would be much improved if she could be the heroine of a true confession." "The sinning is easy enough for Grace, but how to get a handle on the suffering, and the redemption? By turns hilarious and deeply moving, True Confessions: The Novel charts the course of a modern woman's struggle to survive the daunting absurdities of her too modern life."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Google Books — A carregar... GénerosSistema Decimal de Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos EUA (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia:
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Critics describe the book as funny, but I have to admit the first laugh-out-loud moment I had was when Grace is in Central Park with her friend Naomi. Naomi has two children, but acts like she wasn't meant for motherhood: "Grace always felt grateful to Naomi for refusing to submit to the role which it would have been so natural for her to assume" (p 68). On describing her daughter Alice, Naomi says, "Sometimes I think we have her on loan, like a library book...sometimes...it's not even a book I want to finish" (p 68). There is more. Naomi rants about trying to keep kids away from television. "...unless you want them to be social pariahs they'll be contaminated sooner or later" (p 69.
Another favorite line: "lunacy is quite impartial. Warps in the genes, screwy endocrines - they don't count" (p72). ( )