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The Museum of Extraordinary Things: A Novel (edició 2014)

de Alice Hoffman (Autor)

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The daughter of a Coney Island boardwalk curiosities museum's front man pursues an impassioned love affair with a Russian immigrant photographer who after fleeing his Lower East Side Orthodox community has captured poignant images of the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. "An extraordinarily imaginative and immersive novel, this one set in New York from 1911-1925"--… (més)
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Títol:The Museum of Extraordinary Things: A Novel
Autors:Alice Hoffman (Autor)
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A relatively entertaining, undemanding work of fiction in which a young girl working as a mermaid at a Coney Island freak show falls for a "fallen" Jewish orthodox lad in the slums of Manhattan back in the bad ol' pre-Progressive Era days of tenements, abject poverty, and horrific labor exploitation.

Not sure I found either of the characters particularly empathetic or authentic. I have no problem with unsympathetic protagonists, but in this case both characters evince a frustrating level of gullibility/lack of introspection - dramatically necessary, perhaps, but irritating. There's not a lot of plot, and what plot there is comes off as contrived and far-fetched.

But there's also much to savor here, like Hoffman's lovely, evocative descriptions of the Manhattan wilderness in the days before human development entirely consumed the Hudson River and its environs. Also relished the historically accurate depictions of Coney Island, immigrant tenements, and the devastating Dreamland Fire of 1911. Her portrayal of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and its aftermath is gut-wrenching.

While Hoffman employs many of the elements of literary fiction - themes, symbols, extended metaphors - there's not necessarily a lot of sophistication to it. Water and fire symbolize transformation. Dreamland symbolizes human hubris. Starlings represent invading Europeans/civilization. A fish that may or may not have been reborn symbolizes the miracle and hope of love. There's a cactus that finally blooms at the moment that Coralie's free will finally blossoms, and an extended metaphor in which Jane Eyre serves as a construct for exploring the definition and price of freedom, wrapping up in a rather unsubtle denouement in which the Coney Island fire parallels the famous conflagration at the end of Bronte's novel. In other words, nothing your average high school literature student wouldn't be able to access. (And just in case you do overlook something, the author includes an afterward, in the form of a letter, that clears up any possible ambiguities.) Indeed, it sometimes feels like the literary elements are driving the story rather than visa versa. They add some richness, but detract from the authenticity of the story while adding little in the way of added insight or profundity.

This was my first Hoffman novel, so can't shed any light on how it might compare to her others. I enjoyed the tale for what it was, but am not sure - based on this outing - whether I'm in any hurry to explore Hoffman's wider oeuvre. ( )
  Dorritt | Mar 14, 2024 |
This was my favorite book I read in 2016. Frankly I can't stop thinking about it. ( )
  suehle | Jan 22, 2024 |
I didn't enjoy this one very much---mainly because it was just so extremely boring. The set up took about 300 pages, leaving me with about 50 pages of an actual story that I breezed through in about 20 minutes. The way it was written is distracting: lots of jumping back and forth between narrators, first and third person narratives, and bouncing around the timeline.

The ending is obvious and anticlimactic. The parts I didn't guess very early on were not super exciting either. I'm not usually one for magical realism but I think a little more focus on the fantastical in this story would have made it much more palatable.

The one thing I did really enjoy about the story were all of the historical bits and references to my favorite time in history. ( )
  classyhomemaker | Dec 11, 2023 |
4.45 ( )
  jarrettbrown | Jul 4, 2023 |
Nope, not for me. A setting I absolutely love, used to prop up an unengaging story that seems to constantly tell me how I should feel about it. ( )
  Kiramke | Jun 27, 2023 |
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I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end.  But I do not talk of the beginning or the end.  Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
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You would think it would be impossible to find anything new in the world, creatures no man has ever seen before, one-of-a-kind oddities in which nature has taken a backseat to the coursing pulse of the fantastical and marvelous.
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Perhaps it was as Hochman had once said to me, that a man had many lives.  Each day we choose the path we would take by our own actions.
Hochman had been right, the past was what we carried with us, threaded to the future, and we decided whether to keep it close or let it go.  Fate was both what we were given and what we made for ourselves.
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