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Landsman, Anne

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0939144697 ISBN 13 : 9780939144693

Editeur : Soho Pr Inc, 2007

Synopsis

In The Rowing Lesson Anne Landsman has written a poignant and imaginative story about the complex
relationship between father and daughter.

Betsy Klein rushes back to South Africa from her home in New York to be at the bedside of her dying father. As she sits with him through his final hours, she recounts his life story to him. Imagining herself into his experience, she talks to him about his childhood, his life as a South African Jew during World War II, his career as a much-admired doctor, the love affairs he had before meeting her mother, and the gruelling realities of their marriage. As the tale progresses Betsy's life enters her father's, and the narration switches in and out of the first person as her own memories interweave with the story.

Alternating between dream-like stories of the past and the present-day realities of death, The Rowing Lesson is an outstanding and moving novel, distinguished by the beauty of the writing.

A propos du livre

From Publishers Weekly

Scenes from the rich, contentious life of a dying Jewish South African country doctor flash before his expatriate daughter’s eyes in Landsman’s frustrating second novel (after The Devil’s Chimney). A skinny boy with a hot-tempered mother and a good-hearted father, Harry Klein grew up in pre-WWII South Africa, where he married a woman from a socially superior Jewish family during medical school and later endured the wartime death of his father from influenza. After his emigration to South Africa, patients of all races revere him as "Doctor God," but he clashes with his artist daughter (who narrates, maddeningly, in the second person) and can’t shake his life-long jealousy of his younger brother, a flashy, respected cardiologist. This novel offers a few insights on death, the frailty of the human body and the ties between parent and child, but the overly lyrical prose tries too hard, and the second-person narration does the mostly opaque narrative few favors.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Soho Pr Inc
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0939144697
• ISBN 13: 9780939144693
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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