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Dopo il dolore per l'improvvisa morte del padre e per il crudele abbandono della madre, anaffettiva ed egoista, Laura e Clare, due sorelle di quindici e nove anni, si trovano costrette a lottare per la sopravvivenza. Laura - «che aveva deciso di studiare medicina come suo padre...» -trova lavoro in una fabbrica di proprietà di Felix Shaw, un uomo molto più vecchio di lei che si offre di sposarla, se lei vorrà, in modo da prendersi cura anche di Clare. Ma «il generoso» Felix, dopo il matrimonio, rivela presto la sua vera identità di alcolizzato violento, misogino e malvagio. E, a poco a poco, le due sorelle diventano complici delle sue ossessioni, della sua crudeltà, del suo bisogno di controllo. Laura, passiva e rassegnata alla sua condizione di vittima, crede che non ci sia una via di fuga e decide di accettare supinamente il suo destino, al punto da giustificare sempre il marito nelle discussioni con la sorella. Ma Clare, non permetterà che le si tarpino le ali e combatterà per la sua libertà.
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It was interesting reading this Aussie classic written in the 1960s and set at the start of WWII through to the 1940s. The lives and expectations of women were so different at that time so the novel must be read with that in mind. Laura and Clare Vaizey are happy at their Sydney boarding school when Leggi tutto
3.5/5 stars. This story is about Clare and Laura, two sisters who live in Sydney in the 1940s. Throughout their lives, they are forced to live with some miserable and horrible people, and even though it seems impossible, things keep getting worse for them. HOWEVER, what I absolutely loved about this Leggi tutto
Convertido en clásico de las letras australianas, aunque no muy conocido en nuestro país, La torre vigía se incorporaba hace apenas unos meses al catálogo de Impedimenta, editorial que viene de reivindicar la indómita figura de Barbara Baynton y su Estudios de lo salvaje . La novela de Elizabeth Harr Leggi tutto
Listen to me: if you like Ferrante's Naples novels, go read this. Harrower's story is eerily similar. Harrower famously fell silent after writing a few novels. And nobody knows who 'Elena Ferrante' is, which makes me think... well, cue the conspiracy theories. WT is about two sisters who struggle wi Leggi tutto
Ouf - I've done it! When I sat down on Saturday at the beginning of my long weekend, I received an email telling me that I had to return this book today. I tried to renew the loan but to no avail. I simply had to read it this weekend. So ...I did! Which is really the best way to read a book I think. Leggi tutto
Aunque me han gustado tanto la trama como los personajes la forma de contar la historia me ha parecido muy fría e impersonal. Empezó bien pero luego fue perdiendo fuelle. Una pena porque tenía pinta de ser una de mis mejores lecturas del año.
The Watch Tower, by Elizabeth Harrower, was the ANZ LitLovers book-group’s choice for February, and it is a remarkable book. It puts me in mind of Christina Stead’s The Man Who Loved Children, because although the style is completely different, it is a similar study of a dysfunctional family. An abus Leggi tutto
Set during the Second World War, "The Watch Tower" is a difficult book to read. Not because of the writing - which is spare and direct, clear-eyed and unflinching - but because it reflects what life for many women in the developed world would be like now, today, without the advent of Feminism. For t Leggi tutto
'(R)ead it as if it were a thriller, though no one is murdered. There is only...the death of a heart.' Joan London in the Text Classics Introduction of this brilliant novel.
This book. This suffocating, relentless book. I was waiting for a murder. A vase smashed over his head, or arsenic in his tea. But this isn’t melodrama - it’s a sad, resigned reality. Girls and women who didn’t have choices. Fathers who die, mothers who abandon. A loveless, violent marriage. Trapped Leggi tutto
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