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A carregar... Willem's field : a novel (edição 2003)por Melinda Haynes
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What are the limitations of what we do and don't know about our hearts? Oprah Book Club author Melinda Haynes, hailed as "the real thing, a true artist, a genuine writer" (the Cleveland Plain Dealer) for her bestselling debut, Mother of Pearl, returns with a tender, heartbreaking, and occasionally hilarious novel set in the 1970s. Willem Fremont has spent his adult life held tight inside the clenched fist of panic disorder. Determined to break the pattern -- even as he reaches his twilight years -- Willem returns to his childhood home in Purvis, Mississippi, where he believes the solution lies. There he discovers his father's acreage in the hands of the idiosyncratic Till family. Eilene, mother of Sonny and Bruno and "no bigger than a dress form," pretends to be deaf as a way of dealing with her grown boys -- each of whom suffers from inertia. Sonny, hugely fat, perennially unemployed, and looking for love, is building a shrimp boat in his mother's landlocked backyard. Bruno, who has returned from Vietnam with a spinal injury and wearing a brace, escapes into the glossy pages of old National Geographics while his wife, Leah, tries to find a small measure of comfort in the day-to-day tending of their farm. From these unsettled lives comes a story of reconciliation against all odds and a vision of rekindled love as well as a compassionate portrait of small-town life that celebrates the unusual, embraces the unwanted, and opens its arms to all lost souls in search of a home. Steeped in the traditions of great southern storytellers like Flannery O'Connor and William Faulkner, Willem's Field is nonetheless a wholly original and vividly imaginative novel by a brilliant and assured writer. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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It disturbed me that Sonny leaves Joe to die in the tunnel. This scene seemed a bit too dark for the rest of the novel. Joe is a scumbag and I figured he'd get what's coming to him. However, I had become a bit sympathetic towards Sonny and was hopeful about his future prospects, but to have a new start as the result of Joe's horrible, preventable death really causes me to question Sonny's ability to ever have a strong and stable foundation. But then, perhaps he'll never quit playing games.
Overall, I really enjoyed the book. At first I thought it was corny that Haynes had the climax--which I see as when most of the characters reach their own sense of independence from their own games--leading up to America's Independence Day, but then, perhaps, I have a small streak of cynicism. Issues about the land are threaded through the book, so the 4th of July aspect works on a broader level, too. ( )