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Commonwealth: A Novel
Scritto da Ann Patchett
Narrato da Hope Davis
Azioni libro
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- HarperAudio
- Pubblicato:
- Sep 13, 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780062561718
- Formato:
- Audiolibro
Descrizione
The acclaimed, bestselling author-winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize-tells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families' lives.
One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny's mother, Beverly-thus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining of two families.
Spanning five decades, Commonwealth explores how this chance encounter reverberates through the lives of the four parents and six children involved. Spending summers together in Virginia, the Keating and Cousins children forge a lasting bond that is based on a shared disillusionment with their parents and the strange and genuine affection that grows up between them.
When, in her twenties, Franny begins an affair with the legendary author Leon Posen and tells him about her family, the story of her siblings is no longer hers to control. Their childhood becomes the basis for his wildly successful book, ultimately forcing them to come to terms with their losses, their guilt, and the deeply loyal connection they feel for one another.
Told with equal measures of humor and heartbreak, Commonwealth is a meditation on inspiration, interpretation, and the ownership of stories. It is a brilliant and tender tale of the far-reaching ties of love and responsibility that bind us together.
Informazioni sul libro
Commonwealth: A Novel
Scritto da Ann Patchett
Narrato da Hope Davis
Descrizione
The acclaimed, bestselling author-winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize-tells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families' lives.
One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny's mother, Beverly-thus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining of two families.
Spanning five decades, Commonwealth explores how this chance encounter reverberates through the lives of the four parents and six children involved. Spending summers together in Virginia, the Keating and Cousins children forge a lasting bond that is based on a shared disillusionment with their parents and the strange and genuine affection that grows up between them.
When, in her twenties, Franny begins an affair with the legendary author Leon Posen and tells him about her family, the story of her siblings is no longer hers to control. Their childhood becomes the basis for his wildly successful book, ultimately forcing them to come to terms with their losses, their guilt, and the deeply loyal connection they feel for one another.
Told with equal measures of humor and heartbreak, Commonwealth is a meditation on inspiration, interpretation, and the ownership of stories. It is a brilliant and tender tale of the far-reaching ties of love and responsibility that bind us together.
- Editore:
- HarperAudio
- Pubblicato:
- Sep 13, 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780062561718
- Formato:
- Audiolibro
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I am feeling somewhat let down by this novel. Bel Canto is a long time fave, and I have enjoyed many of Patchett's other novels, but there was always a character I loved and wanted to spend time with. In this case I felt nothing for any of the family members because I never got a full picture of who they were and why they did what they did. For me it would have worked better had Patchett focused on two or three of the family members and taken us thru their experiences with the family dynamics and events. Spending any time in Bert's head was a waste because I found him so shallow, same with Beverly. We are told about Bert's parents but given no insight as to why they are the way they are, act the way they do...Fix and Franny interested me more, but I did not get enough of a complete characterization for either of them. The novel has a great deal of "telling" rather than "showing".
The jumps in time did not work for me here, they seemed random, and I felt I had missed so much important information. I really enjoyed the idea of hijacking someone's story and how that might affect family members, but I didn't feel the author made the most of this angle. Since it provided the novel's title, I expected more...
A chance encounter at a christening party for Franny Keating, ignites a spark between the hostess and an uninvited guest that puts in motion a chain of events that will span five decades and forever join two families.
When she is in her twenties, Franny begins an affair with the legendary author Leo Posen. She tells him stories about her family which he then uses as the basis for a novel that becomes extremely successful which sets another chain of events in motion; the children must come to terms with their guilt over the loss they share and the responsibility that it brings which binds them together.
What is amazing about Patchett's novel is that many of the characters go one step beyond flawed to be unlikeable, and that for most of the story, it feels there is not much going on. That being said, there are so many nuances and layers that unfold and it becomes a truly mesmerizing, heartbreaking, and relatable story.