Little Sister: A Novel - Rilegato

Gowdy, Barbara

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ISBN 10: 1554688604 ISBN 13: 9781554688609

Casa editrice: Patrick Crean Editions, 2017

Riassunto

The farthest place you can go is closer than you can imagine.

Rose is a sensible woman, thirty-four years old. Together with her widowed mother, Fiona, she runs a small repertory cinema in a big city. Fiona is in the early stages of dementia and is beginning to make painful references to Rose’s sister, Ava, who died young in an accident.

It is high summer, and a band of storms, unusual for their frequency and heavy downpour, is rolling across the city. Something unusual is also happening to Rose. As the storms break overhead, she loses consciousness and has vivid, realistic dreams—not only about being someplace else, but also of living someone else’s life.

Is Rose merely dreaming? Or is she, in fact, inside the body of another woman? Disturbed and entranced, she tries to find out what is happening to her.

Like The White Bone, Gowdy’s international bestseller, Little Sister is a fictional tour de force. As the author explores the limits of the human mind, the result is an impassioned tale of one woman’s determination to help a woman she has never met, and to come to terms with a death for which she has always felt responsible.

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Recensione:

“ELECTRIFYING ... Gowdy sucks readers into this suspenseful, supernatural story like a strong wind in a squall.” (Kirkus Reviews (starred review))

“Highly readable prose, an intriguing premise, and vivid storytelling.” (Quill & Quire (starred review))

“Gowdy’s new novel weaves an inventive, spellbinding tale of loss, regret, and redemption that takes a heartfelt look at what it means to be a mother, daughter, and sister... A thrilling, captivating exploration of guilt, the female psyche, and the bonds of womanhood.” (Publishers Weekly)

“[Little Sister] is fun and funny and can frequently startle you, breaking your heart with the lovingly observed minutia of everyday experience... Little Sister is all depth and grace and yet never more than a sentence away from a playful nudge in the ribs.”   (  Jose Teodoro)

“Her tender, and occasionally funny, portrayal of Rose explores the boundaries of the human soul and those responsibilities that weigh upon us as much if not more than it explores the boundaries of the human mind...Recommended.” (Library Journal)

“Barbara Gowdy’s portrayal of oddball family ‘shimmers on the page’... As always, Gowdy tells a great story in a commanding voice. In addition, this time around she introduces a new device that allows her to explore rich and rewarding territory.” (Toronto Star)

“The release of any book by Barbara Gowdy qualifies as a literary event... Little Sister takes the inventiveness of its predecessors and ups the ante” (The Walrus)

“[Gowdy] maintains her judicious mixture of warmth and weirdness.” (National Post)

“Little Sister... marks the return, after the longest break of her career, of one of the most inventive and important writers Canada has ever produced.” (Mark Medley for The Globe and Mail)

“Gowdy’s dazzling new novel was a hard-won creation... ranks among her very best.“ (Montreal Gazette)

L'autore:

Barbara Gowdy is the author of seven books, including Helpless, The Romantic, The White Bone, Mister Sandman, We So Seldom Look on Love and Falling Angels, all of which have been met with widespread international acclaim and critical praise. She has been a finalist three times for the Governor General’s Award and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, twice for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and has been long-listed for the Booker Prize. In 1996 she received the Marian Engel Award, and in 2008 the Trillium Book Award. Barbara Gowdy is a Member of the Order of Canada and a Guggenheim Fellow. She lives in Toronto.

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• Editore: Patrick Crean Editions
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1554688604
• ISBN 13: 9781554688609
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 312