Evening
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3,7 • Оценок: 27
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A rich testament to the depths of passion and grief, this “exquisite [and] beautifully realized work” (The Boston Globe) explores time, memory, and love’s transcendence.
“In spare and lovely language, Susan Minot has set forth a real life, in all its particularity and splendor and pain.”—The New York Times Book Review (Best Books of the Year)
July 1954. Ann Grant—a twenty-five-year-old New York career girl—is a bridesmaid at her best friend’s lavish wedding on an island off the coast of Maine. Also present is a man named Harris Arden, whom Ann has never met . . .
After three marriages and five children, Ann Lord lies dying in an upstairs bedroom of a house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. What comes up to her, eclipsing a stream of doctor’s visits and friends stopping by and grown children overheard whispering from the next room, is a rush of memories from a weekend forty years ago in Maine, when she fell in love with a passion that even now throws a shadow onto the rest of her life.
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Fantastic read
Loved reading about Ann Grant's lost love. Minot's stream of conscienceless writing can be confusing or hard to read at times but extremely enjoyable story!
Stream of Consciousness Style
The stream of consciousness writing style (not one of my favorites) contained in this novel was difficult at times to follow but did perfectly depict the snippets of memories that come flooding back as the brain processes them. If one were nearing the end, what bits and pieces of life experience would form our own montage of memories? I enjoyed the story line as Ann shares one of the loves of her life and how she was forever shaped by him. At times when the story line became depressing or dull, I was tempted to give up reading this book, but I persevered to find a little glimmer of hope within.