Samantha Harvey
10 Bibliotheken, 0 aktuelle Leser, 0 Gruppen und 2 Rezensionen
Bekannteste Bücher
Tage der Verwilderung
348 Seiten, Gegenwartsliteratur: lebenserinnerung, verzweiflung, vergessen, mut, demenz
Dieses Romandebüt der 1975 geborenen englischen Schriftstellerin Samantha Harvey wagt sich mit seiner Thematik in einen Bereich, der von vielen Menschen nach wie vor fast so verdrängt wird wie der Tod und das Sterben. Die Rede ist von Krankheiten wie Deme
(5 Bibliotheken, 0 Leser, 2 Rezensionen)
Fester Einband: 348 SeitenErschienen bei: DVA, 2010
Genre: Gegenwartsliteratur
ISBN: 9783421043825
The Wilderness
336 Seiten, Zeitgenössische Literatur: booker prize longlist, australien, samantha harvey, the wilderness, australische literatur
It's Jake's birthday. He is sitting in a small plane, being flown over the landscape that has been the backdrop to his life - his childhood, his marriage, his work, his passions. Now he is in his early sixties, and he isn't quite the man he used to be. He has lost his wife, his son is in prison, and he is about to lose his past. Jake has Alzheimer's. As the disease takes hold of him, Jake struggles to hold on to his personal story, to his memories and identity, but they become increasingly elusive and unreliable. What happened to his daughter? Is she alive, or long dead? And why exactly is his son in prison? What went so wrong in his life? There was a cherry tree once, and a yellow dress, but what exactly do they mean? As Jake, assisted by 'poor Eleanor', a childhood friend with whom for some unfathomable reason he seems to be sleeping, fights the inevitable dying of the light, the key events of his life keep changing as he tries to grasp them, and what until recently seemed solid fact is melting into surreal dreams or nightmarish imaginings. Is there anything he'll be able to salvage from the wreckage? Beauty, perhaps, the memory of love, or nothing at all? From the first sentence to the last, The Wilderness holds us in its grip. This is writing of extraordinary power and beauty.
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Flexibler Einband: 336 SeitenErschienen bei: Cape, 2009
Genre: Zeitgenössische Literatur
ISBN: 9780224089685
Hörbücher
The Wilderness
It's Jake's 65th birthday and he has Alzheimer's. All the key events of his life keep changing as he tries to grasp them, and what until recently seemed solid fact is now blurring. Is there anything he'll be able to salvage from the wreckage of his memories?
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Audio CDErschienen bei: W F Howes Ltd, 2009
Genre: Sonstiges
ISBN: 9781407431574
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