Jennifer Croft (1)
Autor/a de Homesick
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Obres de Jennifer Croft
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Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- Unknown
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Llocs de residència
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Warsaw, Poland - Educació
- Northwestern University (PhD | Comparative Literary Studies)
University of Iowa (MFA | Literary Translation)
University of Tulsa (BA, 2001) - Professions
- translator
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 2
- També de
- 6
- Membres
- 170
- Popularitat
- #125,474
- Valoració
- 3.7
- Ressenyes
- 5
- ISBN
- 22
- Llengües
- 1
This book is a haunting one, presenting the childhood of Amy and her younger sister Zoe in a series of vignettes, often extremely short. We gradually build a picture of two extremely close siblings: the elder gifted in languages and -later - photography, the younger dogged by frightening ill-health - a rare but benign brain tumour. Because of this, the girls are home schooled, and their closeness intensifies. They both develop a passion for their young student teacher of Russian and Ukrainian, but Zoe's condition is that thing that casts a pall over their world.
Tragedy after tragedy strikes -indirect, but significant. Then Amy gets into the University of Tulsa aged only 15. Separation from family and especially her sister makes her vulnerable: she doesn't cope well with student life and is hospitalised.
A much shorter section details Amy's post-graduate life until her mid 30s. Like the earlier part of the book, it's fragmented, yet intimate and sensitive. I was kept at a distance from the two girls: I felt something of a voyeur, though a sympathetic one. I was privy to some of the many disasters that had struck the girls, without really getting to know either of them. Which felt appropriate. Complex lives make for complex characters. How can we really know what goes on in someone else's head?
A sensitive series of sketches which provoked and will continue to provoke thoughts and questions.… (més)