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S'està carregant… Carry the Dog (edició 2021)de Stephanie Gangi (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. Dysfunctional family drama - Bea, 60 years old, reflects on her childhood where she and her two brothers were forced by their photographer mother to pose nude, her marriage and re-marriage (and divorce) to a rock star who is still in her life, rape, incest - it's all pretty sordid. Will she get it all figured out in the end? Personally, I think this woman needs intense therapy, although she herself seems hopeful at the end of the story. I'm not so sure. ( ) This book is done in the first person as the narrator for the whole book. As a result you only get her perspective on things. This usually works best with a reliable narrator who you trust is doing an accurate job of relating what is going on. Bea who is 60 and is the daughter of a famous photographer is dealing with how her mother used her and her twin older brothers as subject for her nude pictures of them. There are a ton of backstories in this book. The author gives Bea so many issues to deal with that it is hard to comprehend how she is able to deal with it all. If you are looking for a story that deals with youthful trauma, adult problems etc., then you may enjoy this. The book does a good job of showing how early life experiences can stay with you and effect you forever and it is not easy to move on without resolving those issues. The book is 275 pages and for some may be worth the time and effort. It would have worked better for me with some other voices besides Bea's. I really enjoyed this, and I ended up interviewing Stephanie Gangi for Bloom (https://bloomsite.wordpress.com/2021/11/02/course-correction-stephanie-gangi-on-carry-the-dog/). But there's also a little backstory about my picking up the book, which is that I was scrolling through the list of e-galleys and saw this title and immediately flashed on the months at the end of 2019/beginning of 2020, when I was carrying my dear 60-pound hound dog Dorrie up and down our back steps in her last days. I'm generally a sucker for dogs in titles so of course I was going to read that one. And there on the first page, the dog in the book (which isn't the dog being carried in the title but never mind) is named Dory. So that was kismet for sure, and then the publicist cold-emailed Bloom to see if anyone wanted to interview the author and I was 100% all in. It's a good book, too. It starts out feeling like it might be one of those NYC comedies of manners, which I like anyway, but then it gets really interesting and a little dark-while-still-being-fun about a lot of big subjects, among them aging and sexuality, agency and consent, and who gets to say what, exactly, gets to happen in the name of art. Gangi does a very good job of navigating all of that without giving it short shrift, and at the same time offering a really engaging, fun read. Recommended to anyone who thinks sounds like a good time, and absolutely if you identify as an aging hipster. ea is a 59 year old woman still running from her childhood. When she was a child, her mother, a famous and well known photographer, took a series of nude pictures of Bea and her two brothers as children and into their teenage years. The series was known as the Marx Nudes. The pictures were celebrated by some people but appalling to others and her mother was accused of pornography. The truth is the children have dealt with the photos for their entire lives and tried to put the photos and their childhood memories out of their minds. Not only the memories of the pictures being taken was traumatic but the children were forced to participate even when they were uncomfortable. It's putting it mildly to say that this was a very dysfunctional family. Now at almost 60, Bea has been approached by a film maker who wants to do a movie about her mother and the nude photos. At the same time, she's been approached by the Museum of Modern Art who want to do a retrospective showing of the photos. Brea is desperately short on money and has to make a decision whether to take the money and run or leave it all locked away in a storage building. The decision on how to handle this situation, brings back lots of memories -- her memories and maybe not the real situations. Her mother and one brother are dead and she is estranged from her other brother so she no one to talk to about her childhood and no way to get to the real truths. It was great to read a book with an older female main character. She is facing old age and realizes after being so visible to the world as a child she is now basically invisible as an aging female. Bea is a complex character with a huge decision to make. She thinks that she's a weak person but finds out while making this decision how resilient she really is. This intriguing novel is about truth vs memory, disappointment vs gratitude, connection vs vulnerability, It's difficult to read in parts but well worth reading about Bea's growth as a person in later life. Thanks to the publisher for a copy of this book to read and review. All opinions are my own. The past is like an optical illusion. The closer I get, the further away it is. from Carry the Dog by Stephani Gangi Bea is struggling. She can’t write her memoir. She can’t let go of her ex-husband’s support, emotionally and financially. She can’t accept the woman she sees in the mirror. She has no children and she is estranged from her brother who abandoned her when he left for college. She worries that her breast cancer may return. Now, she is approached by a film director and MOMA about her mother’s iconic photographs, the Marx Nudes, each wanting access to use them. The photographs were taken by their mother when Bea and her twin brothers were children and young teens. Nude photographs that brought charges of pornography. Photos that caused trauma in her family that Bea can’t get over. And there are other flitting memories as well, so she is unsure of what really happened. Bea is a wonderful character, a vibrant and conflicted woman who feels her life is all behind her. She was a teenager when she met rock star Gary Going and ran off with him. She wrote the lyrics to his hit song, but was never properly compensated or credited for it. Gary was the center of his universe, her best friend, and she spend years ignoring his betrayals. Divorced, her companion is a dog that belongs to vacationing neighbors. At age 59, looking in the mirror, she counts her losses. The creaking joints. How sex requires preparations of all kinds. Knowing she is invisible to young men. Missing her brother Henry. Aging, it’s an accumulation of small losses and tiny glitches that you don’t notice and then you do and you ignore them at first and then you can’t. from Carry the Dog by Stephanie Gangi After her father’s death, she inherits a storage unit filled with her mother’s photography equipment and work. Her half-sister comes to New York City to stay with Bea, and they bond, Echo wearing Bea’s vintage clothes and hoping for a singing career. Gary pushes Bea to accept the film offer, knowing she needs the money. Meanwhile, MOMA wants an exhibition of Marx photographs, gratis, and hopes Bea can include unseen work that Bea could see for profit. But, going through the achieves she encounters memories and disturbing insight into her mother’s life. Desperate for help in decision making, she tracks down Henry. And what she learns upends her understanding of their past. Carry the Dog is disturbing, the story of intergenerational trauma, and yet Bea ends freed and finally ready to accept the past and herself. Bea is ten years younger than I am. It was refreshing to read about the challenges of aging from a female perspective. I will alert readers that the nature of the trauma is disturbing, but there are no recreated scenes of the abuse. I received an ARC from the publisher in exchange for a fair and unbiased review. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
Bea Seger has spent a lifetime running from her childhood. The daughter of a famous photographer, she and her brothers were the subjects of an explosive series of images in the 1960s known as the Marx Nudes. Disturbing and provocative, the photographs left a family legacy of grief felt long past the public outcry and media attention. Now, decades later, both the Museum of Modern Art and Hollywood have come calling, eager to cash in on the enduring interest in these infamous photos. Bea faces a choice: let the world in and be financially compensated for the trauma of her childhood or leave it all locked away in a storage unit forever. Twice-divorced from but still dependent on ageing rock star Gary Going, Bea lives in Manhattan with her borrowed dog, Dory, and her sort-of half-sister, Echo. Navigating old resentments and betrayals, Bea stumbles towards her best future, even as the past looms larger than ever before. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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