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A carregar... The Madness of a Seduced Woman (1983)por Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. A 19th century story about obsessive love between a millworker and a stonecutter. Powerful and absorbing. Brilliant writing. ( ) Considering one in four of us are bound to have some degree of depression during our lives, this book serves as a stark reminder of how little mental illness was understood until so recently. The history of mental illness, the gradual decline of Agnes into insanity, with her self justification that diverges more and more from the truth as we see it; these ingredients make what is in essence a simple tale a remarkable and coherent account that is thoroughly believable at all times. This is one of the best books I have ever read on a number of levels. First the writing – dense, provocative, evocative prose that cannot be skimmed, but does not bog the reader down with useless details. Every word is important and she chooses some rather interesting and unusual that fit not only the character she is creating, but the concept she is trying to convey. Second the structure – the tale is told from Agnes’s old age, so we know she lives to tell her tale, but this knowing does not detract from the tension or the need to know what exactly happened. The third is her characterizations – not only is Agnes fleshed out and realistic, but the supporting cast is not mere set of caricatures designed to fulfill a single purpose or to prop up the plot. We get a very real sense of their role in Agnes’s life. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
"During all those years when everyone wanted me to tell them...how I came to fire that shot, I never wanted to talk. Now I think I do..." Agnes Dempster - young, beautiful, and accused of murder. Vermont, 1890. After an unhappy childhood, Agnes Dempster turns her back on her family and escapes to the city to begin a new life. There she meets Frank Holt, a local stonecutter, a man who captures her imagination and opens her eyes to an entirely different world. They begin a relationship, but over time Agnes becomes more dependent on Frank and this soon becomes an obsession - a dangerous one. And when she discovers her beloved is not as perfect as the image she had created of him, the cracks in her already fragile psyche begin to deepen. He is a betrayer, a man who will never make her happy. And as her life spirals out of control Agnes is propelled into a state of barely-controlled madness; a madness that leads to a chaotic and destructive resolution which will affect her and those around her for the rest of their lives... 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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