Rowing Lesson: A Daughter's Passionate and Poetic Evocation of Her Father's Life - Couverture souple

Landsman, Anne

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1862079897 ISBN 13 : 9781862079892

Editeur : Granta Books, 2008

Synopsis

Pregnant with her first child, Betsy Klein is summoned from her home in the United States to her father's hospital bed in South Africa. Harold Klein is sensual, irascible, a passionately committed doctor, and a complex husband and father. As Betsy sits and waits for him to stir from his coma, she is compelled to imagine his life. Fatherless and skinny, Harold Klein had to struggle to assert himself in his family, and, later, to become a doctor and to win the respect of his Boer patients.We first meet him as a young man on a formative, sexually charged excursion with his friends on the Touw, a river to which he often returns. That is where he later teaches his little daughter to row, and finally, where he makes his last metaphoric passage. "The Rowing Lesson" is an utterly convincing and vivid portrait of a consciousness and a life, shot through with a daughter's fierce empathy and exasperation. By the heartbreaking end of the novel, it seems inconceivable that we will not meet Harold Klein directly, that he will never wake up, so powerfully has he been brought to life.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Anne Landsman is the author of the novel The Devil's Chimney, published by Granta Books in 1998 and nominated for four awards. Originally from South Africa, she lives in New York City with her husband and two children.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Granta Books
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1862079897
• ISBN 13: 9781862079892
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
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