Sinossi
Quando in un pomeriggio d’estate Letitia muore in un incidente stradale, Thaddeus Davenant si ritrova improvvisamente vedovo e con una figlioletta da crescere. Non trovando una bambinaia adatta, accetta l’offerta della suocera, che si trasferisce così a vivere da lui. Il già precario equilibrio di questa difficile convivenza si incrina ulteriormente quando una giovane bambinaia rifiutata, invaghitasi di Thaddeus, architetta un piano disperato per stabilirsi in casa Davenant. La vicenda vira allora verso il giallo, segnando di altre morti la tragica estate. Un romanzo con cui William Trevor si conferma grande indagatore dell’animo umano, maestro nel costruire i personaggi per sottili allusioni e nell’insinuare sfumature di mistero in atmosfere di domestica ordinarietà.
- ISBN: 8823511720
- Casa Editrice: Guanda
- Pagine: 216
- Data di uscita: 29-01-2015
Recensioni
I just can't get enough of Trevor's novels. But I'm already sad that one day I will run out. I loved this, perhaps not my absolute favourite, but still a good one. It's very sad. Is that enough of a review to make you go and read it?
William Trevor does it again. The man should be sainted or knighted, or both (simultaneously). This novel is a study in shifting close-third-person points of view, so masterfully done that you don't even notice; all POVs are equally convincing, and they range from a pair of slightly off twenty-somet Leggi tutto
Creepy, suspenseful and ultimately tragic, but not in the ways you initially expect. There are sections in the first half of the book that I had to work quite hard at, with the point of view shifting in a way I found disorientating. But this was clearly the author’s intention and once I got my ear i Leggi tutto
William Trevor's characters walk in shadows, moving with the somnambulistic pace of the half-alive. It is his style to remain detached, writing as one observing from an opaque distance, even when he is deep in the minds of his often-disturbed characters. This works to haunting effect in Felicia's Jo Leggi tutto
This is my third book (one short story collection and two novels) by William Trevor, and in my experience of him so far, there are some common threads running through his narratives, long and short. He’s a master at building atmosphere, always taking me places with his words. Small towns and everyda Leggi tutto
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