The Summer Place
Autor Jennifer Weineren Limba Engleză Hardback – iul 2022
Observăm o imagine care pare desprinsă dintr-o ilustrație idilică: o casă pe malul mării în Outer Cape, unde wisteria și briza sărată ar trebui să fie martorele fericirii. Însă, pentru Veronica Levy, realitatea este mult mai nuanțată. După patru decenii în care a sperat că acest loc va fi ancora familiei sale, ea se vede nevoită să accepte că legăturile s-au slăbit, iar copiii ei abia își mai vorbesc. Decizia de a vinde proprietatea și de a organiza o ultimă reuniune cu ocazia nunții nepoatei sale, Ruby, declanșează un mecanism al adevărurilor nespuse care au mocnit sub suprafața calmă a verilor trecute. Recomandăm acest roman pentru modul în care Jennifer Weiner reușește să transforme o premisă clasică de vacanță într-o analiză psihologică fină a relațiilor intergeneraționale. Simțim aici forța narativă a lui Harriet Evans din A Place for Us, combinată cu sensibilitatea explorării secretelor de familie întâlnită în Summer by the Tides de Denise Hunter, dar totul este filtrat prin glasul propriu al lui Weiner — unul onest, plin de umor și surprinzător de curajos. Dacă în lucrări precum The Next Best Thing autoarea explora ambiția profesională, iar în That Summer se concentra pe puterea prieteniei feminine, The Summer Place reprezintă o întoarcere la temele sale fundamentale: complexitatea rolului de mamă și modul în care spațiul domestic ne definește identitatea. Ritmul lecturii este susținut de alternanța perspectivelor celor trei generații de femei, fiecare încercând să decidă ce fel de viață merită trăită în anii care le-au mai rămas.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1638083665
Pagini: 592
Dimensiuni: 142 x 218 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Ediția:Text mare
Editura: Center Point
De ce să citești această carte
Credem că The Summer Place este lectura ideală pentru oricine caută o poveste care să echilibreze emoția profundă cu observația socială ascuțită. Cititorul va câștiga o perspectivă empatică asupra conflictelor de familie, descoperind că acasă nu este doar o adresă, ci un proces continuu de iertare. Este o recomandare caldă pentru vacanță, oferind acea profunzime literară care persistă mult după ce vara s-a încheiat.
Despre autor
Jennifer Weiner, născută pe 28 martie 1970, este o scriitoare americană de renume, producătoare de televiziune și fost jurnalist, stabilită în Philadelphia. Absolventă a Universității Princeton, ea a devenit o voce de referință în beletristica contemporană, fiind constant prezentă în topurile New York Times. Stilul său este adesea comparat cu cel al lui Helen Fielding pentru umorul proaspăt și caracterizările de finețe. Weiner este cunoscută pentru modul în care aduce în prim-plan personaje feminine autentice, abordând cu inteligență și curaj teme precum imaginea de sine, relațiile de familie și solidaritatea feminină.
Descriere
'If you have time for only one book this summer, pick this one' New York Times
'An ambitious, immersive novel from the author of In Her Shoes' Red Magazine
'Engrossing' Sunday Mirror
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From the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of That Summer comes another heartfelt and unputdownable novel of family, secrets, and the ties that bind.
When Veronica Levy bought her dream house on the Outer Cape, she imagined a place where generations of her family would gather for years to come.
Now, forty years later, with her children barely speaking to each other, or to her, Veronica has decided, reluctantly, to put the place on the market. She'll invite the family to gather one last time (and insist on their good behavior) at her granddaughter Ruby's wedding. She'll spend one last summer by the beach, with her daughter Sarah, her son Sam, and whichever grandchildren can be coaxed into making the trip. Then she'll say goodbye to the house she's loved for forty years.
But three months is a long time. Time enough for an old love to reappear, for secrets to come to light, and for three generations of Levy women to decide what kind of lives they want to live, in the summers they have left.
The Summer Place is a hilarious, delicious, and wickedly observed story about parents and children, husbands and wives, the places we call home, and all the ways that love can surprise us.
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Find out why everyone's talking about Jennifer Weiner:
'You'll love this book and wish she was your friend' MINDY KALING
'Fiercely funny, powerfully smart, and remarkably brave' CHERYL STRAYED
'Like Helen Fielding, Weiner balances fresh humour, deft characterisations, and literary sensibility' GUARDIAN
'Mrs Everything is like Beaches but with mothers and daughters and sisters. I may never recover' JILL GRUNEWALD
'Generous and entertaining' Publishers Weekly
'You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll want to read it again' TheSkimm
'Jennifer Weiner has done it again. She has made me feel more emotions than I've felt in a long time' Goodreads reviewer
'Beautifully written and heart-touching' Goodreads reviewer
Recenzii
From the No.1 New York Times bestselling author of That Summer comes another heartfelt and unputdownable novel of family, secrets, and the ties that bind.
When Veronica Levy bought her dream house on the Outer Cape, she imagined a place where generations of her family would gather for years to come.
Now, forty years later, with her children barely speaking to each other, or to her, Veronica has decided, reluctantly, to put the place on the market. She'll invite the family to gather one last time (and insist on their good behavior) at her granddaughter Celia's wedding. She'll spend one last summer by the beach, with her daughter Sarah, her son Sam, and whichever grandchildren can be coaxed into making the trip. Then she'll say goodbye to the house she's loved for forty years.
But three months is a long time. Time enough for an old love to reappear, for secrets to come to light, and for three generations of Levy women to decide what kind of lives they want to live, in the summers they have left.
The Summer Place is a hilarious, delicious, and wickedly observed story about parents and children, husbands and wives, the places we call home, and all the ways that love can surprise us.
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Descriere scurtă
When her twenty-two-year-old stepdaughter announces her engagement to her pandemic boyfriend, Sarah Danhauser is shocked. But the wheels are in motion. Headstrong Ruby has already set a date (just three months away!) and spoken to her beloved safta, Sarah's mother Veronica, about having the wedding at the family's beach house in Cape Cod. Sarah might be worried, but Veronica is thrilled to be bringing the family together one last time before putting the big house on the market.
But the road to a wedding day usually comes with a few bumps. Ruby has always known exactly what she wants, but as the wedding date approaches, she finds herself grappling with the wounds left by the mother who walked out when she was a baby. Veronica ends up facing unexpected news, thanks to her meddling sister, and must revisit the choices she made long ago, when she was a bestselling novelist with a different life. Sarah's twin brother, Sam, is recovering from a terrible loss, and confronting big questions about who he is?questions he hopes to resolve during his stay on the Cape. Sarah's husband, Eli, who's been inexplicably distant during the pandemic, confronts the consequences of a long ago lapse from his typical good-guy behavior. And Sarah, frustrated by her husband, concerned about her stepdaughter, and worn out by the challenges of the quarantine, faces the alluring reappearance of someone from her past and a life that could have been.
When the wedding day arrives, lovers are revealed as their true selves, misunderstandings take on a life of their own, and secrets come to light. There are confrontations and revelations that will touch each member of the extended family, ensuring that nothing will ever be the same.
From "the undisputed boss of the beach read" (The New York Times), The Summer Place is a testament to family in all its messy glory; a story about what we sacrifice and how we forgive. Enthralling, witty, big-hearted, and sharply observed, "this first-rate page-turner" (Publishers Weekly) is Jennifer Weiner's love letter to the Outer Cape and the power of home, the way our lives are enriched by the people we call family, and the endless ways love can surprise us.