A praia do destino

by Anita Shreve | Romance |
ISBN: 0316734837 Global Overview for this book
Registered by Fantasma of Carnaxide, Lisboa (distrito) Portugal on 1/3/2005
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Journal Entry 1 by Fantasma from Carnaxide, Lisboa (distrito) Portugal on Monday, January 3, 2005
"Set 100 years ago in Boston, Fortune's Rocks is a classic of literary and romantic storytelling. Fourteen-year-old Olympic Biddeford is spending the summer with her parents at their seasonal house at Fortune's Rocks. Her father handles her education himself and is in fact a publisher of mildly liberal literature. One author he admires, who also practises as a physician, comes to visit the house. 40 years old, married with four children, he still embarks on an affair with the adolescent girl. They have a swift, passionate summer, torn apart when they are discovered together during Olympic's fifteenth birthday party. She is taken back to Boston, her parents are mortified and remove themselves from society. When Olympic is delivered of a baby boy nine months later, he is taken from her and she finds herself in exile at a ladies college and then as a governess. She decides she must get her child back, which means returning to Fortune's Rocks... This sensuality of a girl's rite of passage, the descriptions of landscape, weather, music and light, are vintage Shreve and her seventh novel will thrill her many admirers."
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Journal Entry 2 by Fantasma from Carnaxide, Lisboa (distrito) Portugal on Monday, September 19, 2005
Após ouvir falar tanto desta escritora, estava realmente curiosa para saber se valeria mesmo a pena.
Só com este livro, não posso dizer que me tenha agarrado ao ponto de fazer muita questão de ler outros livros dela... Não é que não tenha gostado, mas o início só conseguia ler na diagonal, e cansavam-me as intermináveis descrições de tudo o que era paisagem, música, sentimento ou conversa. Acho que a história precisava dum cortezito dumas 100 páginas para tornar a escrita mais fluída, mais agradável.

Mas gostei da história. Nada de novo, mas queremos saber mais da vida das personagens. Uma boa leitura para noites de verão, como diz na capa do livro...

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