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Every Past Thing

Autor Pamela Thompson
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 aug 2007
In This masterful debut, Pamela Thompson reveals the pain and desire of one woman, the wife of 19th Century painter, Edwin Romanzon Elmer, as she searches for her lovers in New York City over five days of wishes and regrets in November 1899. When your heart is broken, every past thing becomes strange. In 1899, the streets of New York were as unsettled as the heart and body of Mary Jane Elmer. The ideas of the transcendentalists had taken root, and thoughts of a second revolution were rising. Emma Goldman spoke to ever-growing numbers of the disenfranchised in Union Square and scandalized the city fathers. Police used horses, clubs and bullets to disperse the crowds. Women were redefining their roles for the coming century. And, at 40 years of age, solitary in marriage to a brilliant and talented man and still grieving the death of their daughter ten years past, Mary tries her best to find a future she can endure. Writing in a voice that is filled with longing, Thompson captures an emotional whirlwind of art, politics, family, and desire with an authenticity that is absolutely breathtaking. Every Past Thing is an enduring novel, as personal as it is historic.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781932961393
ISBN-10: 1932961399
Pagini: 326
Dimensiuni: 163 x 234 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.62 kg
Editura: Unbridled Books

Recenzii


“Every Past Thing shares with Emily Barton’s Brookland a perfectly surehanded sense of place and time, and with Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping a precise, unsentimental evocation of our deepest loves and family bonds. I’ve not been so moved by a novel in years; it seems to me truly stunning."—Andrea Barrett

“A perfect novel to sink into for these chilly winter months, Every Past Thing shall be relished by anyone searching for a beautiful, semi-scandalous and slightly seductive escape.”—The Feminist Review

“In Thompson’s prose, attuned to every nuance of understated emotion, there is both power and wisdom—about family, life and death, grief, women longing for and demanding purpose and position, the ability of art to express, but also the pain of the unexpressed."—Susan Vreeland

“A novel to be savored.”—Booklist

“Thompson writes ... beautifully and with lucid assurance.”—Robert Birnbaum, The Morning News

“This is a novel of ideas that today’s woman will find of great interest.”—bookviews.com

“A haunting story of a family, and a nation, undergoing great change —Historical Novels Review

Descriere

In 1899, the streets of New York were as unsettled as the heart and mind of Mary Jane Elmer. The ideas of the transcendentalists were still in the air, and thoughts of a second revolution were rising. Emma Goldman spoke to ever-growing numbers of the disenfranchised in Union Square and scandalized the city fathers. Police used horses, clubs and bullets to disperse the crowds. Women were redefining their roles for the coming century. And, near the middle of life, solitary in her marriage to an intractable and distant artist, and still grieving the death of their daughter ten years earlier, Mary struggles to shape a future she can endure.

Derived from the lives of real people, this beautiful novel is a whirlwind of history, art, familial tremors, and personal desire. But beyond its elegance, beyond its historical authenticity, Every Past Thing is an intimate and moving family portrait—and its every brushstroke is marked with longing.