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Sinossi
Quante vite si nascondono in una sola? È la domanda che assilla Lyman Ward, malato e in esilio volontario nella casa di famiglia a Grass Valley, California. Alle spalle ha una brillante carriera universitaria e una vita appagante. Ora che ha perso tutto, un istinto primordiale lo spinge a cercare una risposta - un principio di ordine - tra le carte lasciate in quella casa da sua nonna, Susan Burlino Ward, artista e scrittrice. Emerge così il mosaico di una vita consumata tra i paesaggi sconfinati del West della corsa all'oro, al fianco di uno sfortunato ingegnere minerario cui la legavano un matrimonio difficile e un sentimento contraddittorio e profondo. Susan è di volta in volta moglie docile, indomita pioniera, ospite perfetta, madre ansiosa, artista apprezzata, compagna ribelle, amante delusa, stoica custode di una famiglia. Intorno a lei ruota un universo di equilibri e affetti che un solo passo falso potrebbe infrangere per sempre. Tra le catastrofi e i miracoli che costellano la vita di Susan, Lyman ritrova il filo della propria, e la risposta che stava cercando.
- ISBN: 8830102768
- Casa Editrice: Bompiani
- Pagine: 768
- Data di uscita: 18-03-2020
Recensioni
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1972, this book is considered by some to be Stegner’s masterpiece. It’s a great read that is largely based on the true story of a woman pioneer in the west when so many other books about this era tell the stories of men. Layered on the frontier story is th Leggi tutto
Fellow Goodreaders know that feeling of exhilaration when a new entrant pushes its way onto a top-ten-of-all-time list. Wallace Stegner’s Pulitzer Prize winner from 1972 is my most recent example. Of course, Goodreads reviewers also know the pressure involved in justifying the choice. So what makes Leggi tutto
I read this book based largely on the Goodreads reviews. Maybe I'm not as smart as other reviewers, or maybe other reviewers give it high praise because it was a Pulitzer Prize winner and they didn't want to look dumb (something to which I have no aversion), or maybe this was just a fluke, but I did Leggi tutto
“What interests me in all these papers is not Susan Burling Ward the novelist and illustrator, and not Oliver Ward the engineer, and not the West they spend their lives in. What really interests me is how two such unlike particles clung together, and under what strains, rolling downhill into their f Leggi tutto
All of the characters in the book should have gotten together and bored each other to death like they did to me. This story had potential, but Wallace Stegner was not the best author to tell this story. At the center of this novel is Lyman Ward, a cranky old man, who while not whining about this life Leggi tutto
This book started out great, but quickly got repetitive for me. Learning on Wikipedia that Stegner derived (with permission!) large parts of it from real letters published the next year certainly took winds out of my sails. Several critics have mentioned that Stegner's version of Mary Hallock Foote
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