The Confessions of Frances Godwin
Autor Robert Hellengaen Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 dec 2015
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781620405505
ISBN-10: 1620405504
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 1620405504
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Caracteristici
SOMETHING
FOR
EVERYONE:LikeSnakewoman
of
Little
Egypt,The
Confessions
of
Frances
Godwintouches
on
a
vast
range
of
topics:
Shakespeare,
sports
cars,
adultery,
Latin,
hospice
care,
Rome,
arches
and
bridge
construction.
Notă biografică
Robert
Hellengawas
educated
at
the
University
of
Michigan
and
Princeton
University.
He
is
a
professor
at
Knox
College
in
Galesburg,
Illinois,
and
the
author
of
the
novelsSnakewoman
of
Little
Egypt,The
Sixteen
Pleasures,The
Fall
of
a
Sparrow,Blues
Lessons,Philosophy
Made
Simple,
andThe
Italian
Lover.
He
lives
in
Galesburg,
Illinois.
Recenzii
I
stayed
up
all
night
with
Robert
Hellenga's
beguiling
schoolteacher-murderer
and
her
talkative
God,
and
will
now
re-read
at
leisure
to
savor
this
author's
usual
grace
notes:
music,
recipes,
learning,
philosophy,
and
travel.The
Confessions
of
Frances
Godwinis
Hellenga's
most
audacious
fling
at
just
about
everything
in
our
culture.
Robert Hellenga is a great storyteller and a most elegant writer.The Confessions of Frances Godwinis a page-turner that made me want to linger on the page.
As enjoyable as it is profound,The Confessions of Frances Godwintackles our most unanswerable questions as only a novel can--not by answering them but by exploring the reasons why we ask in the first place. This is the sort of rare book where the familiar starts to look brand-new, and a reader comes to understand that faith is as much about how one sees as it is about what one believes.
His latest novel [is] one of his best . . . Hellenga . . . is one of those writers who inspire a special kind of devotion in their readers . . . The beauty of this novel and, in fact, of all of Hellenga's work, lies in the scrupulous attention he pays to those different shapes that life takes. Like Frances, we find in their very concreteness a way of living with the uncertainty that surrounds us.
Hellenga's feisty and learned narrator, who travels from the Casa di Giulietta in Verona to TruckStopUSA in Ottawa, is an entertaining guide.
In this highly original novel exploring the hidden depths of one older woman, Hellenga (The Sixteen Pleasures) shows that he is a writer who deserves to be more widely known.
Hellenga neatly balances the pallet trucks of the wholesale produce business with the idiosyncrasies of translating the ribald poetry of Catullus . . . Although the story ranges wide,The Confessions of Frances Godwinis firmly rooted in the culture and values of Hellenga's perfectly rendered Midwest.
Hellenga creates a teacher you will wish you had studied with, and a character to remember.
Gripping and unpredictable . . . .The Confessions of Frances Godwinboth sums up and surpasses Hellenga's body of work. This is a story of maturity by maturity for maturity, written with subtlety, deep learning, and wisdom.
One heck of a plot . . . Hellenga, the famously philosophical novelist . . . is 'inclined,' he recently wrote on his blog, 'to accept the accumulated wisdom of the ancient near East' but . . . 'can't entirely abandon the quest for some larger meaning.' It is this quest for meaning that this latest book, like much of Hellenga's work, is all about.
Robert Hellenga is a great storyteller and a most elegant writer.The Confessions of Frances Godwinis a page-turner that made me want to linger on the page.
As enjoyable as it is profound,The Confessions of Frances Godwintackles our most unanswerable questions as only a novel can--not by answering them but by exploring the reasons why we ask in the first place. This is the sort of rare book where the familiar starts to look brand-new, and a reader comes to understand that faith is as much about how one sees as it is about what one believes.
His latest novel [is] one of his best . . . Hellenga . . . is one of those writers who inspire a special kind of devotion in their readers . . . The beauty of this novel and, in fact, of all of Hellenga's work, lies in the scrupulous attention he pays to those different shapes that life takes. Like Frances, we find in their very concreteness a way of living with the uncertainty that surrounds us.
Hellenga's feisty and learned narrator, who travels from the Casa di Giulietta in Verona to TruckStopUSA in Ottawa, is an entertaining guide.
In this highly original novel exploring the hidden depths of one older woman, Hellenga (The Sixteen Pleasures) shows that he is a writer who deserves to be more widely known.
Hellenga neatly balances the pallet trucks of the wholesale produce business with the idiosyncrasies of translating the ribald poetry of Catullus . . . Although the story ranges wide,The Confessions of Frances Godwinis firmly rooted in the culture and values of Hellenga's perfectly rendered Midwest.
Hellenga creates a teacher you will wish you had studied with, and a character to remember.
Gripping and unpredictable . . . .The Confessions of Frances Godwinboth sums up and surpasses Hellenga's body of work. This is a story of maturity by maturity for maturity, written with subtlety, deep learning, and wisdom.
One heck of a plot . . . Hellenga, the famously philosophical novelist . . . is 'inclined,' he recently wrote on his blog, 'to accept the accumulated wisdom of the ancient near East' but . . . 'can't entirely abandon the quest for some larger meaning.' It is this quest for meaning that this latest book, like much of Hellenga's work, is all about.