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A carregar... Margarettownpor Gabrielle Zevin
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. An unconventional tale of love, life and death. But specially of love. You could say this is another story of an ordinary couple who fall in and out of love, as we all do sometime in life. Or you could say this is a unique tale of an extraordinary woman, who is five different women at the same time, and who dies because she is eighty-seven or thirty-five. A cursed woman or a blessed one, because she is loved, deeply and intensely loved by her husband, the narrator of the story. His voice is steady and simple and you find yourself moved every now and then, without even realising it, by the truths about life he so humbly exposes, always from his original point of view. You can die of cancer or of an intoxication caused by eating too many lemons, which were your only sustenance during a shipwreck in Thailand. Or you can love a manic depressed woman or meet her at seven, seventeen, thirty or seventy-seven, all at the same time. And learn to love them all. Aren't we all different women at once? You can say this is an easy reading, I'd say it's a complicated one. There's a lot hidden in these simple lines, sometimes I felt like writing a whole paragraph down, as I found the message and the way it was told impossible to improve. No mushy topics. Only a touch of magic, so different from other stories. Do not be misled by the cover or the summary plot. This is a love story, yes. But not a common one, or maybe a common one, but one told in an original and true voice, a voice that won't be easily forgotten. Because life can be seen in shadows of greys. Or it can be a kaleidoscope of bright colours. It all depends on the kind of glass you choose to look through. Some quotations: "It has bee said that the lover is usually a thief, and indeed, it is difficult to love someone without robbing them of something." "Some parts I have forgotten; some parts I have chosen to forget. The man who has no memory makes one out of paper." "Why does anyone ever fall in love with anyone? Is it the dimple in a plump elbow? Is it a glint in the eye? When you fall in love with one woman, are you actually falling in love with a different woman entirely? " "Children are generally miserable and cruel people. And for good reason. For one, they are very short, and for two, childhood is generally miserable time, but older people are always insisting children should be happier than they are." "At the end of the road, when you're least expecting it, he (or possible she) will be there." "I die, Jane. The world grows more gorgeous every day. I am only forty-six - that may seem old to you now, but a day will come (and sooner than you think) when forty-six seems very young indeed. I am only forty-six and it would seem tragic, but for one thing. In you, I found infinity; in you, I was reborn." " In life, Jane reflected, the most interesting things tend to happen when you are on your way to do something else." sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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It could be about anyone - you, your parents, your best friends. But it's not. It's about a woman called Margaret Towne, and the man who falls in love with her . . . The day he meets Maggie for the first time is the day he understands what it is to be in love. Deeply, wildly, terminally in love. What he doesn't know is that loving Maggie means loving many women at once. After a brief, intense courtship the two young lovers set off to meet Maggie's family: Margaret, Maggie, Marge, Mia and May - five women of different ages, all living together in a house called Margaron, in a place called Margarettown. Nothing in Maggie's world is quite like anywhere else. Part memoir, part fable, part journey through the many worlds of one woman, MAGARETTOWN is a novel about how love takes us over and changes our lives; how it makes lies out of truth and truth out of lies. It is the story of what it takes to love the same person for a lifetime - and about the impossibility of really knowing anything about who it is we have come to love. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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This book was alright but it wasn't great, disappointing since Zevin's other books were excellent. ( )