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Love Child: A Novel (edició 2011)

de Sheila Kohler (Autor)

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The compelling story of a forbidden marriage, a baby lost, and a love triangle gone horribly wrong, "Love Child" centers on Bill, a slightly disreputable white woman in Johannesburg who came of age, married, had children, and was widowed, all within the confines of South Africa's English enclave. Hers is a life circumscribed by wealth. Rounds of cocktails muffle feelings of being trapped; South African independence is a distant and unlikely concern. When the book opens, in 1958, the disapproving family lawyer is pressing the widow, Bill (a former tomboy), to make her will. At age 48, languidly considering how best to distribute her fortune, Bill recollects her life, especially her brief elopement with a Jewish man when she was 17. Distant from her sons and tired of supporting her brothers and sisters, Bill looks back and questions the choices that were made for her.… (més)

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Membre:	Jen-Lynn
Títol:	Love Child: A Novel
Autors:	Sheila Kohler (Autor)
Informació:	Penguin Books (2011), Edition: 1, 235 pages
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Love Child de Sheila Kohler

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Well that was disappointing! Quick read, got through it in an afternoon. It was so beautifully written, until you reach the last couple chapters and it almost feels as if the author handed it off to a high school student to finish. Could definitely have been a much better ending. (

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Jen-Lynn | Aug 1, 2022 |

A quick read about a woman seemingly spoiled and petted her whole life, though the reader finds out soon enough there is another reality and quite a sad one. I liked this but it was a bit more telling than showing and I thought the ending underwhelming.

In the afterword, Kohler said she based the main character on her mother and I want to know more about that! (

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laurenbufferd | Nov 14, 2016 |

Have you ever bought it book for its cover? For the way it feels in your hand? This was one of those books for me. I really liked the way the book went back and forth in time. Usually I find that distractive, but this was done well. I enjoyed the story and found myself thinking how far we have come in life in terms of female personal freedom and rights. I would have been much happier with a stronger ending. It just.... ended! It was a quick, good summer read. Not fantastic by any means, but good! (

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LASMIT | Sep 7, 2011 |

Bill is the daughter of a diamond evaluator and a semi-invalid mother in South Africa in the 1920’s. Her role in the family is being her mother’s helpmate, and it has been that way since she was 10 years old. Bill is known as the prettiest of the three daughters and her father’s favorite. She enjoys the effect she has on men of all ages. When she visits her father at work one day, she catches the eye of one of the other diamond evaluators, Isaac, and sets her cap on him. http://popcornreads.com/?p=1495 (

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Reviewed for SHELF AWARENESS - posted 7/1/11
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The compelling story of a forbidden marriage, a baby lost, and a love triangle gone horribly wrong, "Love Child" centers on Bill, a slightly disreputable white woman in Johannesburg who came of age, married, had children, and was widowed, all within the confines of South Africa's English enclave. Hers is a life circumscribed by wealth. Rounds of cocktails muffle feelings of being trapped; South African independence is a distant and unlikely concern. When the book opens, in 1958, the disapproving family lawyer is pressing the widow, Bill (a former tomboy), to make her will. At age 48, languidly considering how best to distribute her fortune, Bill recollects her life, especially her brief elopement with a Jewish man when she was 17. Distant from her sons and tired of supporting her brothers and sisters, Bill looks back and questions the choices that were made for her.

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