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Summer Sisters: A Read with Jenna Pick de Judy Blume

Summer Sisters: A Read with Jenna Pick

Autor Judy Blume
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 mai 1999

Notăm cu interes cum, în paginile acestui roman, Judy Blume reușește să surprindă forțele opuse care guvernează o prietenie de o viață: atracția irezistibilă către universul strălucitor al celuilalt și resentimentul tăcut născut din diferențele de clasă. Tensiunea centrală se construiește între Vix, o tânără care pătrunde într-o lume a privilegiului de neimaginat, și Caitlin, prietena sa nesăbuită și carismatică, a cărei familie excentrică devine, pentru o vreme, propriul ei refugiu. Considerăm că forța narațiunii rezidă în modul în care magia verilor petrecute pe Martha’s Vineyard se estompează sub presiunea anilor, lăsând în urmă întrebări dureroase despre loialitate și trădare. Stilul evocativ al autoarei transformă o simplă vacanță într-o experiență formativă profundă. Ritmul este unul contemplativ, dar încărcat de o melancolie care ne-a atras atenția prin onestitatea sa brutală. Summer Sisters: A Read with Jenna Pick amintește de The Last Summer (of You and Me) de Ann Brashares prin atmosfera nostalgică a verilor la malul mării și ritualurile maturizării, dar se diferențiază prin complexitatea psihologică a personajelor adulte și prin curajul de a explora laturile mai întunecate ale atașamentului feminin. Poziționată în contextul operei sale, această lucrare reprezintă o evoluție naturală de la temele explorate în cărți precum Just as Long as We're Together, unde prietenia era privită prin lentila adolescenței. Aici, Judy Blume folosește aceeași sensibilitate pentru care este celebră în Tiger Eyes, dar o aplică unei structuri narative mai vaste, specifice beletristicii pentru adulți. Este un portret nuanțat al modului în care trecutul refuză să rămână îngropat, culminând cu o nuntă ce forțează confruntarea cu acea ultimă vară care a schimbat totul.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780440226437
ISBN-10: 0440226430
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 106 x 177 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Random House

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această lectură celor care caută o explorare profundă a prieteniilor feminine ce supraviețuiesc timpului, dar nu fără cicatrici. Cititorul va câștiga o perspectivă onestă asupra modului în care ne modelăm identitatea în oglinda celorlalți. Este un roman despre pierderea inocenței și despre curajul de a înțelege de ce anumite persoane păstrează puterea de a ne răni, chiar și după decenii de tăcere.

Despre autor

Judy Blume este o figură iconică a literaturii americane contemporane, cunoscută pentru curajul de a aborda subiecte tabu în literatura pentru tineri și adulți. Cu peste 25 de romane publicate și 82 de milioane de exemplare vândute, ea a fost recompensată cu distincții prestigioase, precum medalia National Book Foundation. Cariera sa, începută în 1959, este definită de o onestitate rară în portretizarea experiențelor umane universale, de la pubertate la complexitatea relațiilor adulte, fiind considerată o „Legendă Vie” de către Biblioteca Congresului Statelor Unite.

Notă biografică

Judy Blume's twenty-two books, including the New York Times bestsellers Wifey and Smart Women, have sold over sixty-five million copies worldwide and have been translated into twenty languages. She spends summers on Martha's Vineyard with her family.

Extras

Prologue
Summer 1990


The city is broiling in an early summer heat wave and for the third day in a row Victoria buys a salad from the Korean market around the corner and has lunch at her desk. Her roommate, Maia, tells her she's risking her life eating from a salad bar. If the bacteria don't get you, the preservatives will. Victoria considers this as she chomps on a carrot and scribbles notes to herself on an upcoming meeting with a client who's looking for a PR firm with an edge. Everyone wants edge these days. You tell them it's edgy, they love it.

When the phone rings she grabs it, expecting a call from the segment producer at Regis and Kathie Lee. "This is Victoria Leonard," she says, sounding solid and professional.

"Vix?"

She's surprised to hear Caitlin's voice on the other end and worries for a minute it's bad news, because Caitlin calls only at night, usually late, often waking her from a deep sleep. Besides, it's been a couple of months since they've talked at all.

"You have to come up," Caitlin says. She's using her breathy princess voice, the one she's picked up in Europe, halfway between Jackie O's and Princess Di's. "I'm getting married at Lamb's house on the Vineyard."

"Married?"

"Yes. And you have to be my Maid of Honor. It's only appropriate, don't you think?"

"I guess that depends on who you're marrying."

"Bru," Caitlin answers, and suddenly she sounds like herself again. "I'm marrying Bru. I thought you knew."

Victoria forces herself to swallow, to breathe, but she feels clammy and weak anyway. She grabs the cold can of Diet Coke from the corner of her desk and holds it against her forehead, then moves it to her neck, as she jots down the date and time of the wedding. She doodles all around it while Caitlin chats, until the whole page is filled with arrows, crescent moons, and triangles, as if she's back in sixth grade.

"Vix?" Caitlin says. "Are you still there? Do we have a bad connection or what?"

"No, it's okay."

"So you'll come?"

"Yes." The second she hangs up she makes a mad dash for the women's room where she pukes her guts out in the stall. She has to call Caitlin back, tell her there's no way she can do this. What can Caitlin be thinking? What was she thinking when she agreed?

Four weeks later Caitlin, her hair flying in the wind, meets Victoria at the tiny Vineyard airport. Victoria is the last one to step out of the commuter from LaGuardia. She'd spotted Caitlin from her window as soon as they'd landed but felt glued to her seat. It's been more than two years since they've seen each other, and three since Victoria graduated from college and got caught up in real life--a job, with just two weeks vacation a year. No money to fly around. Bummer, as Lamb would say when they were kids.

"Going on to Nantucket with us?" the flight attendant asks and suddenly Victoria realizes she's the only passenger still on the plane. Embarrassed, she grabs her bag and hustles down the steps onto the tarmac. Caitlin finds her in the crowd and waves frantically. Victoria heads toward her, shaking her head because Caitlin is wearing a T-shirt that says simplify, simplify, simplify. She's barefoot as usual and Victoria is betting her feet will be as dirty as they were that first summer.

Caitlin holds her at arm's length for a minute. "God, Vix . . ." she says, "you look so . . . grown up!" They both laugh, then Caitlin hugs her. She smells of seawater, suntan lotion, and something else. Victoria closes her eyes, breathing in the familiar scent, and for a moment it's as if they've never been apart. They're still Vixen and Cassandra, summer sisters forever. The rest is a mistake, a crazy joke.

Recenzii

“Compulsively readable ... her powers are prodigious.” —New York Times Book Review

“As warm as a summer breeze blowing through your hair, as nostalgic as James Taylor singing ‘How Sweet It Is.’ You remember. So does Judy Blume. How sweet it was.”—Chicago Tribune

“An exceptionally moving story that can leave the reader laughing and crying ... sometimes at the same time.... Blume creates a rich tapestry of characters.”—Denver Post

Textul de pe ultima copertă

In the summer of 1977, Victoria Leonard's world changed forever -- when Caitlin Somers chose her as a friend. Dazzling, reckless Caitlin welcomed Vix into the heart of her sprawling, eccentric family, opening doors to a world of unimaginable privilege, sweeping her away to vacations on Martha's Vineyard, a magical, wind-blown island where two friends became summer sisters.... Now, years later, Vix is working in New York City. Caitlin is getting married on the Vineyard. And the early magic of their long, complicated friendship has faded. But Caitlin has begged Vix to come to her wedding, to be her maid of honor. And Vix knows that she will go -- for the friend whose casual betrayals she remembers all too well. Because Vix wants to understand what happened during that last shattering summer. And, after all these years, she needs to know why her best friend -- her summer sister -- still has the power to break her heart....

Descriere

In this "exceptionally moving story that can leave the reader laughing and crying . . . sometimes at the same time . . . Blume [introduces] a rich tapestry of characters" ("The Denver Post").