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A carregar... Ga als een rivier (edição 2023)por Shelley Read (Autor), Mieke Trouw-Luyckx (Tradutor)
Informação Sobre a ObraGo as a River por Shelley Read
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HTML: INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Set amid Colorado's wild beauty, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story of a resilient young woman whose life is changed forever by one chance encounter. A tragic and uplifting novel of love and loss, family and survivalâ??and hopeâ??for readers of Great Circle, The Four Winds, and Where the Crawdads Sing. "Beautiful . . . A striking first novel of love and strength and growth, set against the forests and rivers of Colorado's high country. Read is a gifted writer, and the book is a literary triumph."â??Denver Post "With gorgeous descriptions of the great outdoors, an illicit love story, and an unforgettable protagonist, Go as a River offers something for everyone."â??Real Simple Seventeen-year-old Victoria Nash runs the household on her family's peach farm in the small ranch town of Iola, Coloradoâ??the sole surviving female in a family of troubled men. Wilson Moon is a young drifter with a mysterious past, displaced from his tribal land and determined to live as he chooses. Victoria encounters Wil by chance on a street corner, a meeting that profoundly alters both of their young lives, unknowingly igniting as much passion as danger. When tragedy strikes, Victoria leaves the only life she has ever known. She flees into the surrounding mountains where she struggles to survive in the wilderness with no clear notion of what her future will bring. As the seasons change, she also charts the changes in herself, finding in the beautiful but harsh landscape the meaning and strength to move forward and rebuild all that she has lost, even as the Gunnison River threatens to submerge her homelandâ??its ranches, farms, and the beloved peach orchard that has been in her family for generations. Inspired by true events surrounding the destruction of the town of Iola in the 1960s, Go as a River is a story of deeply held love in the face of hardship and loss, but also of finding courage, resilience, friendship, and, finally, homeâ??where least expected. This stunning debut explores what it means to lead your life as if it were a riverâ??gathering and flowing, finding a way forward even when Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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It is a story that has been told time and time again. A young woman becomes pregnant, leaves home to have the baby, has to give her baby up and then spends the rest of her life dreaming and thinking of him and what he is like. It's a simple story but one made different through the context it is told in. The context for Baby Love by Jacqueline Wilson is the age of the mother, too young, I Couldn't Love you More by Esther Freud that involves the Magdalena laundries of Ireland and Claire Keegan's Small Things Like These where a man who delivers coal is surprised to find unwanted girls, one of whom is pregnant, living in a coal cellar, placed there by the nuns, and links it to his own childhood and his mother.
No matter how it is told, this is always a sad, sad story and in Go As A River it is no different. The context for this book is Colarado, the rivers, mountains and forests and the 40s and 50s where skin colour matters, particularly when the young man is Native American. It is the story of how Victoria endures all that is thrown at her and how the peach trees help her put down roots in a new place and create a new life, still with elements of the old life never forgotten.
There were parts of the book that were short on detail, for instance the birth of the child up in a mountain hut on her own and other parts that we were able to see clearly - the land, rivers and local people. It is well-written and it did make me cry towards the end but it isn't a book with any surprises. (