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S'està carregant… When God was a Rabbit: The Richard and Judy Bestseller (2011 original; edició 2011)de Sarah Winman (Autor)
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. I learned about this book, and this author, from a friend, and picked it up on her recommendation. It is the story of Elly, her life from childhood to adulthood, her relationship with her brother and her parents and a set of quirky friends. It is a coming of age story, told with childlike and adult voices, a story of exploitation (which does not seem to leave her at all scarred), connection and disconnection, advantage and hardship and loss, and a talking rabbit. It spans nearly this history of my own life (though starts a little earlier and is set mostly in another place) so the historical and cultural landmarks are familiar. It's a good book, filled with large and little moments, and I enjoyed it, but I find I don't have much more to say about it than that.
Winman has an authorial tendency to pick at life’s proverbial scabs. But while her plot traffics heavily in grim incident, she maintains a winning proportion of whimsy throughout. At the very least, she’s created the most amusing and emotionally satisfying work of rabbit deism to come down the pike in a long time. I give it five carrots. It is the story of Ellie, a girl growing up in 1970s Essex who has decided to call her pet rabbit God. On the brink of adolescence, she observes the world with both a childish sense of wonder and the unflinching, no-nonsense perspective of a young person. The second act, in which she is an adult, is less intriguing simply because it is necessarily more grown up – even though Ellie herself is resistant to behaving like one – and when events like 9/11 come into focus, even though they are handled in a refreshingly unpredictable way, the terrain begins to feel much more familiar. That said, the characters' personal stories; those of Ellie's brother, his friend Charlie, and her correspondence with her long-lost childhood playmate, Jenny Penny, are compelling throughout; rendered with an appealing frankness, precision and emotional acuity. Despite the gravity of events, Winman pulls a good number of rabbits from her hat in a picaresque coming-of-age tale where characters disappear then shockingly reappear. This affecting and original debut is recommended for most public libraries. There are books that tug on the heartstrings, and then there are full-on tractor pulls. When God Was a Rabbit falls into the latter category. Sarah Winman’s debut novel has been attracting a great deal of buzz lately, as tearjerkers sometimes will; add to which, her prose also has an elegiac, simple beauty, which she uses to nimbly guide her characters through 30-odd eventful years of history. Butboy, is this book rife with personal calamity....In any case, misery is not what has got the literati abuzz where Rabbit is concerned. If it were merely a bleak catalogue of bad luck, people wouldn’t be talking about it the way they are. The book’s appeal lies in the fact that its top note is one of hope: The cooling balm of renewal invariably follows each terrible test of human endurance (imagine Kafka taking tea with Disney, and you’ll get the idea). Some horrors ring authentically here, others less so, but the message is that you can get through pretty much anything. That’s trite to say, and maybe not even true. But it’s remarkable how we never get tired of hearing it. PremisDistincions
Young Elly's world is shaped by those who inhabit it: her loving but maddeningly distractible parents; a best friend who smells of chips and knows exotic words like 'slag'; an ageing fop who tapdances his way into her home, a Shirley Bassey impersonator who trails close behind; lastly, of course, a rabbit called God. In a childhood peppered with moments both ordinary and extraordinary, Elly's one constant is her brother Joe. Twenty years on, Elly and Joe are fully grown and as close as they ever were. Until, that is, one bright morning and a single, earth-shattering event that threatens to destroy their bond for ever. Spanning four decades and moving between suburban Essex, the wild coast of Cornwall and the streets of New York, this is a story about childhood, eccentricity, the darker side of love and sex, the pull and power of family ties, loss and life. More than anything, it's a story about love in all its forms. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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In the end, family and a few close friends learn to rely on each other to help them through their final, major crisis, and work through the shadows from their past. A sometimes dark and often poignant and witty book, you'll have it demolished in a couple of sittings. ( )