The White Rose
Autor Jean Hanff Korelitzen Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 mar 2015
At forty-eight, Marian Kahn, a professor of history at Columbia, has reached a comfortable perch. Married, wealthy, and the famed discoverer of the eighteenth-century adventuress, Lady Charlotte Wilcox, she ought to be content. Instead, she is horrified to find herself profoundly in love with twenty-six-year-old Oliver, the son of her eldest friend. When Marian's cousin, the snobbish Barton, announces his engagement to Sophie, a graduate student in Marian's department, Marian, Oliver, and Sophie find their lives woefully entangled, and their hearts turned in unfamiliar directions. All three of them will learn that love may seldom be straightforward, but it's always a gift.
From the West Village to the Upper East Side, from the Hamptons to Millbrook,THE WHITE ROSEis at once a nuanced and affectionate reimagining of Strauss's beloved opera,Der Rosenkavalier, and a mesmerizing novel of our own time and place.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781455530816
ISBN-10: 1455530816
Pagini: 448
Dimensiuni: 133 x 203 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Grand Central Publishing
Colecția Grand Central Publishing
ISBN-10: 1455530816
Pagini: 448
Dimensiuni: 133 x 203 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Grand Central Publishing
Colecția Grand Central Publishing
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Notă biografică
Jean
Hanff
Korelitz
was
born
and
raised
in
New
York
and
graduated
from
Dartmouth
College
and
Clare
College,
Cambridge.
She
is
the
author
of
one
book
of
poems,
THE
PROPERTIES
OF
BREATH,
and
three
previous
novels,
A
JURY
OF
HER
PEERS,
THE
SABBATHDAY
RIVER
and
THE
WHITE
ROSE,
as
well
as
a
novel
for
children,
INTERFERENCE
POWDER.
She
has
also
published
essays
in
the
anthologies
MODERN
LOVE
and
BECAUSE
I
SAID
SO,
and
in
the
magazines
VOGUE,
REAL
SIMPLE,
MORE,
NEWSWEEK,
ORGANIC
STYLE,
TRAVEL
AND
LEISURE
(FAMILY)
and
others.
She
lives
in
New
York
City
with
her
husband
(Irish
poet
Paul
Muldoon,
poetry
editor
atThe
New
Yorkerand
Princeton
poetry
professor)
and
two
children.
Recenzii
"This
excellent
literary
mystery
[unfolds]
with
authentic
detail
in
a
rarified
contemporary
Manhattan.
.
.
intriguing
and
beautiful."—Publishers
Weekly(starred
review)
Jean Hanff Korelitz's incisive and urbane new novel,The White Rose, harks back to the gender confusions of Shakespeare's comedies while adding some surprising contemporary twists. The book opens in bed, where Marian, a 48-year-old married Columbia history professor, makes love to Oliver, the 26-year-old son of her oldest friend. The couple is interrupted by the arrival of Marian's oafish cousin, but the bedroom farce that ensues when Oliver reappears dressed as a woman is beside the point.The White Rose, a retelling of Richard Strauss's ''Rosenkavalier,'' is really a roman a clef, a sendup of gossip columnists and Manhattan strivers and a paean to professional fulfillment. Korelitz's characters -- charming, idealistic and contradictory -- are what that make this novel so appealing. Oliver, a metaphysically minded florist determined to create a rose that's ''pompous, overblown and incapable of regret,'' ignores complaints from customers that their purchases die too soon by ''taking a position that celebrates the transience of the flower . . . a flower's impermanence is part of its beauty.'' Marian, the author of a best seller about an 18th-century adventuress, comes to recognize that love is but one pleasure among many. ''Scholars know -- or ought to know -- that they are privileged to lead their lives with their books in their groves of like-minded people. . . . Anyone incapable of appreciating the rare jolts of delight that can come from finding something out -- something wild and obscure, buried in history or chipped from the unknown -- ought to be in another line of work.'' Korelitz, who is married to the poet Paul Muldoon, has previously written two legal thrillers,The Sabbathday RiverandA Jury of Her Peers. This novel represents a significant step forward.—New York Times Book Review
Jean Hanff Korelitz's incisive and urbane new novel,The White Rose, harks back to the gender confusions of Shakespeare's comedies while adding some surprising contemporary twists. The book opens in bed, where Marian, a 48-year-old married Columbia history professor, makes love to Oliver, the 26-year-old son of her oldest friend. The couple is interrupted by the arrival of Marian's oafish cousin, but the bedroom farce that ensues when Oliver reappears dressed as a woman is beside the point.The White Rose, a retelling of Richard Strauss's ''Rosenkavalier,'' is really a roman a clef, a sendup of gossip columnists and Manhattan strivers and a paean to professional fulfillment. Korelitz's characters -- charming, idealistic and contradictory -- are what that make this novel so appealing. Oliver, a metaphysically minded florist determined to create a rose that's ''pompous, overblown and incapable of regret,'' ignores complaints from customers that their purchases die too soon by ''taking a position that celebrates the transience of the flower . . . a flower's impermanence is part of its beauty.'' Marian, the author of a best seller about an 18th-century adventuress, comes to recognize that love is but one pleasure among many. ''Scholars know -- or ought to know -- that they are privileged to lead their lives with their books in their groves of like-minded people. . . . Anyone incapable of appreciating the rare jolts of delight that can come from finding something out -- something wild and obscure, buried in history or chipped from the unknown -- ought to be in another line of work.'' Korelitz, who is married to the poet Paul Muldoon, has previously written two legal thrillers,The Sabbathday RiverandA Jury of Her Peers. This novel represents a significant step forward.—New York Times Book Review