White Oleander

Fitch, Janet

ISBN 10: 1570428212 ISBN 13: 9781570428210

Casa editrice: Little, Brown US, 1999

Riassunto

White Oleander is a painfully beautiful first novel about a young girl growing up the hard way. It is a powerful story of mothers and daughters, their ambiguous alliances, their selfish love and cruel behaviour, and the search for love and identity. Astrid has been raised by her mother, a beautiful, headstrong poet in a loving but isolated relationship. Ingrid is a free spirit given to making poetical, pretentious pronouncements who wilfully neglects her daughter and overlooks her motherly duties. Astrid forgives her everything as her world revolves around this beautiful creature until Ingrid murders a former lover and is imprisoned for life. Astrid becomes one of the thousands of foster children in Los Angeles, the damaged people looking only to survive. As she steers her way through this changed reality - a series of homes, guns, drugs, suicide and dysfunctional families and couples - she finds strength in her unshakeable certainty of her own worth, her need to paint and her unfettered sense of the absurd. Astrid's fierce determination to survive and be loved makes her an unforgettable figure in this elegantly crafted debut novel which is like a siren song ready to seduce and hypnotise you.

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Recensione:

Graceful (THE TIMES)

Poignant, virtuosic and utterly captivating (PUBLISHERS WEEKLY)

However good the film version, starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Renee Zellwegger, it won't beat Janet Fitch's reissued novel White Oleander. (‘)

Liquid poetry is how Oprah Winfrey described it. (IN STYLE UK)

Descrizione del libro:

* A beautiful first novel about a young woman growing up the hard way - this is a powerful story of mothers and daughters, their ambiguous alliances, and the search for love and identity. Now available as an audiobook read by Oprah Winfrey.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Little, Brown US
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1570428212
• ISBN 13: 9781570428210
• Rilegatura: Audio Cassetta
• Numero di pagine: 1