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The Bridge Ladies de Betsy Lerner

The Bridge Ladies

Autor Betsy Lerner
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 mai 2017

Notăm cu interes o lacună persistentă în literatura memorialistică contemporană: analiza pragmatică a modului în care activitățile structurate, precum jocurile de societate clasice, pot media conflicte generaționale profunde. The Bridge Ladies de Betsy Lerner vine să completeze acest spațiu, oferind o perspectivă onestă asupra reconcilierii dintre o fiică ce a fugit de valorile tradiționale și o mamă care le întruchipează riguros. Credem că forța acestui volum rezidă în observația fină a contrastelor sociale: în timp ce generația actuală se bazează pe conexiuni efemere pe rețelele sociale, „doamnele de la Bridge” demonstrează o loialitate practică, unde prezența fizică și ajutorul concret primează în fața partajării emoționale excesive.

Găsim în această carte o evoluție tematică interesantă față de lucrarea anterioară a autoarei, The Forest for the Trees. Dacă acolo Betsy Lerner analiza mecanismele scrisului cu rigoarea unui editor, aici aplică aceeași precizie chirurgicală asupra propriei istorii familiale. Comparabil cu Mother Daughter Me de Katie Hafner în rigurozitate, The Bridge Ladies este însă actualizat pentru un context în care barierele de comunicare nu sunt doar emoționale, ci și culturale, marcate de tăcerile auto-impuse ale generațiilor postbelice. Stilul narativ este unul echilibrat, pendulând între umor negru și vulnerabilitate, fără a cădea în sentimentalism. Este o cronică a modului în care o masă de joc poate deveni singurul teren neutru unde două femei pot învăța să se asculte din nou, după decenii de neînțelegeri.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780062354471
ISBN-10: 0062354477
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 136 x 203 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: Harpercollins

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care caută o explorare autentică a relației mamă-fiică, dincolo de clișee. Este o lectură esențială pentru cei interesați de sociologia micilor grupuri și de modul în care ritualurile tradiționale oferă suport emoțional într-o lume digitalizată. Veți câștiga o perspectivă nouă asupra valorii comunității și a modului în care „regulile jocului” pot vindeca răni vechi.

Despre autor

Betsy Lerner deține un Master în Arte Frumoase (MFA) în poezie la Universitatea Columbia și este o figură respectată în lumea editorială americană. A fost distinsă cu premii prestigioase precum Thomas Wolfe Poetry Prize și Academy of American Poets Poetry Prize. Pe lângă cariera sa literară, a fost recunoscută ca unul dintre scriitorii emergenți de către PEN în 1987. Experiența sa de editor se reflectă în precizia prozei sale, fapt vizibil și în alte lucrări ale sale, precum The Forest for the Trees sau romanul Shred Sisters, unde explorează cu aceeași acuitate instabilitatea dinamicilor familiale.

Descriere scurtă

A fifty-year-old Bridge game provides an unexpected way to cross the generational divide between a daughter and her mother. Betsy Lerner takes us on a powerfully personal literary journey, where we learn a little about Bridge and a lot about life.
After a lifetime defining herself in contrast to her mother’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” generation, Lerner finds herself back in her childhood home, not five miles from the mother she spent decades avoiding. When Roz needs help after surgery, it falls to Betsy to take care of her. She expected a week of tense civility; what she got instead were the Bridge Ladies. Impressed by their loyalty, she saw something her generation lacked. Facebook was great, but it wouldn’t deliver a pot roast.
Tentatively at first, Betsy becomes a regular at her mother’s Monday Bridge club. Through her friendships with the ladies, she is finally able to face years of misunderstandings and family tragedy, the Bridge table becoming the common ground she and Roz never had.
By turns darkly funny and deeply moving, The Bridge Ladies is the unforgettable story of a hard-won—but never-too-late—bond between mother and daughter.

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After a lifetime of defining herself against her mother, Betsy unexpectedly returns to her childhood home of New Haven. No sooner does she cross state lines than old patterns reemerge, old conflicts flare. Everything her mother says feels like a referendum on her life: her hair, her frayed jeans, throwing away money on Starbucks, and why does she always have to wear black! All the entrenched mother-daughter behaviors return full force. The generation gap seems wider than ever.
Enter the Bridge Ladies, a small band of five women who have been playing cards with her mother, Roz, on Mondays for more than fifty-five years—still clad in matching outfits, heels, their hair done, and still serving luncheon on linen, china, and silver.  After Roz had some surgery, each one visited with a meal. Betsy admired their loyalty. She knew if she ever got sick her friends would probably send her texts: Feel better! Miss you! Facebook was great, but it wouldn’t deliver a pot roast.
Tentatively at first, Betsy joins the Monday bridge group, and eventually learns to play the game that “well acquaints you with your deficits.” Over time, she gets to know the ladies and, most surprisingly, her mother. Bridge becomes a metaphor for crossing the emotional divide. Darkly funny and deeply moving, The Bridge Ladies is an unforgettable story of the hard-won but never-too-late bond that can be rekindled between mothers and daughters.

Recenzii

“Lerner’s memoir makes a case for spending time together under the rules of neutrality imposed by a game, and approach to living that refrains from over-sharing and outward complaining to concentrate on the task at hand. The bridge ladies are there for one another, even as they keep their feelings to themselves and play on.” — New York Times Book Review
“A heartfelt and affecting memoir.” — Washington Post
“A smart and colorful memoir.” — Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air
“A deeply affecting memoir...a generous and honest examination, she honors these women’s lives” — Boston Globe
“In her absorbing memoir, Lerner probes marriage, career, motherhood, depression, aging, death, religion and sex, discovering that, although the Bridge Ladies’ generation differs from hers, they share common values of love and kinship. This beautifully written, bittersweet story of ladies of a certain age and era will have wide appeal.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“A book for two generations.” — Dallas Morning News
“The Bridge Ladies is an uplifting account of a baby boomer’s attempt to understand her mother’s generation. Lerner never lets herself off the hook, either, and the result is candid, fresh and enlightening.” — Providence Journal
“Through the alchemy of a grand game, Betsy Lerner has woven a universal coming-of-age story for both mother and daughter. A poignant, humorous and often painful struggle through the pageantry of playing cards; a woman’s face on every one.” — Patti Smith, author of Just Kids and M Train
“Betsy Lerner’s ladies are our ladies, our mothers, grandmothers, and aunts. Lerner takes us back to their tables, capturing a group of wonderful American women—growing older now and braving new battles—with sweetness, humor and sharp perceptiveness. This is a book with heart and feeling.” — George Hodgman, author of Bettyville
“Lerner takes us on a journey of understanding: the card game, the women who play it, their lives and relationships. In Lerner’s beautifully observed account, Bridge becomes both a literal and figurative pathway to repairing an even more precious bond: her own relationship to her mother.” — Deborah Tannen, author of You Just Don’t Understand and You're Wearing THAT?
“This is the best book about mothers and daughters I’ve read in decades, maybe ever. It’s about mother-daughter conflict, the desire to love and be loved, aging and loss, discovery and renewal. Betsy Lerner is a beautiful, achingly honest writer, and The Bridge Ladies is at once heartbreaking and hilarious.” — Amy Chua, Yale Law Professor and author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America
“A searching, funny, warm memoir.” — O, the Oprah Magazine
“The Bridge Ladies reminded me of Tuesdays with Morrie, except it takes place on Mondays and has five Morries. Exquisitely written, in this book are portraits of five women whose like we won’t see again. I devoured it in one greedy sitting, and started re-reading as soon as I finished.” — Will Schwalbe, author of the New York Times bestseller The End of Your Life Book Club

Notă biografică

Betsy Lerner is the author of The Forest for the Trees and Food and Loathing. She is a recipient of the Thomas Wolfe Poetry Prize, an Academy of American Poets Poetry Prize, and the Tony Godwin Prize for Editors, and was selected as one of PEN's Emerging Writers. Lerner is a partner with the literary agency Dunow, Carlson & Lerner and resides in New Haven, Connecticut.

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A heart-warming memoir of female friendships, mothers and daughters - and bridge