Summer Sisters
Autor Judy Blumeen Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 apr 2009
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-10: 0751542733
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 126 x 196 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Sphere
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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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.
Descriere
Vix Leonard is twelve when she meets dazzling, reckless Caitlin Somers. Invited to spend holidays on Martha's Vineyard with Caitlin and her eccentric, mysterious family, Vix is welcomed into a life totally unlike her own. As days of bold adventure give way to nights of shy discovery, she and Caitlin come together in the complications of growing up; the refuge of belonging; the pact to Never Be Ordinary . . . Until one devastating summer when a local boy changes everything.
Years later life has driven them apart, but the bruise of their friendship remains. When Caitlin begs Vix to return to the Vineyard for her wedding, Vix knows she will go. She wants to understand what happened that last shattering summer - and why her best friend still has the power to break her heart.
An unforgettable story of two women, two families and the friendships that shape a lifetime from Judy Blume, the author who shaped our teenage selves.
'Insightful, thought-provoking and she knows exactly how women think. I absolutely devoured it. If you liked Blume at school, you'll love this.' DAILY MAIL
'Judy Blume knows exactly how women think and feel. Perfect summer reading.' JENNY COLGAN
Recenzii
If you are thirty-plus Judy Blume probably saw you through your teens, so you'll love this grown-up tale examining female friendships and the way the girl you used to play Barbies with can end up a virtual stranger in adulthood
Engrossing and personal, this book captures the true meaning of friendship perfectly
Judy Blume knows exactly how women think and feel. Perfect summer reading
Notă biografică
From the Paperback edition.
Extras
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.
From the Hardcover edition.