La lettrice bugiarda
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Acquistalo
In Libreria
Sinossi
Un segreto tra due gemelle
Un testamento inatteso
Il destino che sta per compiersi
È estate e l’oceano ruggisce al largo della città di Salem. Towner Whitney è tornata dove tutto è cominciato. La grande casa segnata dalla salsedine è avvolta dal silenzio, eppure a Towner sembra ancora di vedere la sua gemella Lindley mentre, con lei, ride e legge il futuro secondo un’antica arte trasmessa di madre in fi glia tra le strane donne della famiglia Whitney. Towner era fuggita da tutto ciò, prigioniera del senso di colpa e della follia. Perché l’ultima volta che aveva previsto il futuro, Lindley era morta. Ma dopo quindici anni la scomparsa dell’amata zia Eva la costringe a fare ritorno, a ripercorrere quella strada troppe volte dimenticata. Per ritrovarla, Towner non ha altra scelta: deve affrontare il segreto che la lega indissolubilmente a Lindley. Un segreto che affonda le radici in un passato inconfessabile che molti, nel clan Whitney e nella chiusa comunità di Salem, hanno cercato di rimuovere. Quando il corpo di Eva viene restituito dalle onde e un’altra ragazza scompare, Towner capisce di essere precipitata di nuovo nell’incubo di quella calda estate di tanto tempo prima. Circondata dalle chiacchiere e dai sospetti, non può fare affidamento che su sé stessa. È questa l’eredità che Eva le ha lasciato: scrutare il futuro e distinguere vero e falso, odio e amore, realtà e sogno. Solo allora il velo che offusca il suo destino finalmente si solleverà. La lettrice bugiarda è una storia di abbandono e redenzione, di bugie e tradimenti, dove i misteri e i segreti si dipanano pagina dopo pagina fino a dare un nuovo significato alla parola verità.
Contenuti speciali all'interno
- Intervista con l’autrice
- I giudizi dei librai
- Spunti di discussione
- La storia del caso editoriale
- ISBN: 8811694191
- Casa Editrice: Garzanti
- Pagine: 393
- Data di uscita: 26-08-2010
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If you liked THE LIFE OF PI, you might like this book. I didn't, and I wasn't real fond of this one by the time I got to the end of it. If that's a spoiler, so be it. This book actually made me mad. Okay, so this book is about a family of women with "the sight," who can read a person's future through Leggi tutto
The concept gets an A, the execution gets a C. The book is just a mess! In serious need of editing and rearrangement. I was often confused because it was hard to tell reality from dreams from hallucinations from delusions from memories. There were a lot of good ideas, but so many of them were totall Leggi tutto
Reading this book is like falling asleep in a moderately interesting class. A moment flutters by that briefly captures your imagination, but mainly things are just droning along. Droning, that is, until the last moment when the teacher starts ranting and throwing things. Wow! I'm awake, I'm awake--w Leggi tutto
I'm biased in regards to this book, because this October, I'll be traveling to the North Shore and Salem for my honeymoon. So I was predisposed to enjoy the admittedly captivating descriptions of a city poised between the past and the (heavily marketed, witch-industry-based) future. But for everythi Leggi tutto
Ever found yourself finishing a book out of obligation, to the book itself? That vague but relentless guilt that settles in when you have figured out exactly where this story is going and where it will wind up, but you started the book, so you really ought to finish it? Go to your favorite bookselle Leggi tutto
This book didn’t quite live up to my expectations for it but overall, I thought it was okay. That makes me a little sad because there were several elements to this book that seemed like they would be wildly interesting when they were all mixed together in the same book and I was hoping to really lov Leggi tutto
I liked this book at first because of the visual setting of Salem and Marblehead, the unusual dysfunctional family, and the mystery of the aunt's death. As the story progresses it just gets tangled in its own web or lace as it were, a story in search of a flashy ending which is provided but somehow
Towner Whitney is forced to return to Salem MA, after an absence of almost 15 years, when her Great-Aunt Eva goes missing. Once she is back in Salem Towner soon finds out that she will need to confront the ghosts of her past in order to move on into her future. Through a series of flashbacks and mem Leggi tutto
This was such an unexpected gem amongst my tbr pile and I’m so glad I finally picked it up and read it. As soon as I read the back of the book and the narrator pretty much told us she was an unreliable narrator, I was hooked! I loved everything about this story, from the setting to the plot to the c Leggi tutto
Just found this while rummaging through my Goodreads shelves and realized I have to change the rating. Many books later, I now realize this can't possibly be more than two stars. The most cliche-ridden and sad little book ever. Whiny and ditzy main character. Eye rolling romance. Almost no "lace rea Leggi tutto
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