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Wild Game de Adrienne Brodeur

Wild Game

Autor Adrienne Brodeur
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 iul 2020

Reținem în această ediție de la Vintage Publishing un exercițiu de sinceritate brutală despre modul în care loialitatea filială poate fi transformată într-un instrument de manipulare. Wild Game nu este doar o cronică a unei infideliăți, ci o analiză a momentului în care Adrienne Brodeur încetează să mai fie copil pentru a deveni confidenta și complicea mamei sale, Malabar. Totul începe într-o noapte de august în Cape Cod, când o mărturisire de cinci cuvinte — „Ben Souther tocmai m-a sărutat” — alterează iremediabil dinamica dintre mamă și fiică. Considerăm că structura narativă reușește să surprindă cu precizie prețul psihologic al acestei complicități: de la euforia de a fi „aleasă” de o mamă magnetică, până la prăbușirea în depresie și izolare. Spre deosebire de alte memorii care se concentrează strict pe evenimentele exterioare, Adrienne Brodeur disecă mecanismele justificării și minciunile pe care ni le spunem pentru a supraviețui în medii toxice. Comparabil cu Sins of Our Mothers în explorarea traumelor transgeneraționale, Wild Game este însă actualizat pentru o perspectivă mai nuanțată asupra rezilienței, punând accent pe procesul de individualizare și pe puterea de a rupe tiparele comportamentale moștenite. Textul este lipsit de sentimentalism excesiv, păstrând un ton analitic chiar și în momentele cele mai tensionate. Recomandăm acest volum celor interesați de beletristica autobiografică ce explorează „umbrele” maternității și modul în care secretele pot coroda o familie timp de decenii. Este o lectură despre maturizarea forțată și, în final, despre redobândirea propriei identități în afara influenței parentale sufocante.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780358361329
ISBN-10: 035836132X
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 136 x 203 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Harpercollins
Locul publicării:United States

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Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care caută o analiză psihologică fină a relațiilor disfuncționale dintre părinți și copii. Veți câștiga o perspectivă profundă asupra modului în care limitele emoționale pot fi încălcate în numele iubirii și cum poate fi reconstruită autonomia personală după ani de complicitate toxică. Este un studiu de caz literar despre reziliență și onestitate radicală.

Despre autor

Adrienne Brodeur este o scriitoare americană recunoscută pentru capacitatea sa de a sonda adâncimile psihologice ale relațiilor umane. A debutat în forță cu acest volum de memorii, care a devenit rapid bestseller național și a fost nominalizat pe listele de lecturi esențiale de către publicații precum NPR și New York Post. Cariera sa este marcată de un interes constant pentru dinamica puterii în cadrul familiei și pentru modul în care mediul social — în acest caz, comunitatea din Cape Cod — influențează deciziile morale ale indivizilor. Experiența sa personală, transpusă în literatură, oferă o voce autentică supraviețuitorilor structurilor familiale manipulatoare.

Descriere scurtă

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER. A daughter’s tale of living in the thrall of her magnetic, complicated mother, and the chilling consequences of her complicity.

NAMED A BEST FALL BOOK BY People * Refinery29 * Entertainment Weekly * BuzzFeed * NPR’s On Point * Town & Country * Real Simple * New York Post * Palm Beach Post * Toronto Star * Orange Country Register * Bustle * Bookish * BookPage * Kirkus* BBC Culture* Debutiful

On a hot July night on Cape Cod when Adrienne was fourteen, her mother, Malabar, woke her at midnight with five simple words that would set the course of both of their lives for years to come: Ben Souther just kissed me.

Adrienne instantly became her mother’s confidante and helpmate, blossoming in the sudden light of her attention, and from then on, Malabar came to rely on her daughter to help orchestrate what would become an epic affair with her husband’s closest friend. The affair would have calamitous consequences for everyone involved, impacting Adrienne’s life in profound ways, driving her into a precarious marriage of her own, and then into a deep depression. Only years later will she find the strength to embrace her life—and her mother—on her own terms.

Wild Game is a brilliant, timeless memoir about how the people close to us can break our hearts simply because they have access to them, and the lies we tell in order to justify the choices we make. It’s a remarkable story of resilience, a reminder that we need not be the parents our parents were to us.

“Exquisite and harrowing.” —New York Times Book Review

“This electrifying, gorgeously written memoir will hold you captive until the last word.” —People

Recenzii

A National Bestseller   A Best Book of 2019 from: NPR * BuzzFeed * Slate * People*  Chicago Public Library * Real Simple * Library Journal * Washington Post * Amazon * CBC   A Best of Fall Title from: People * Refinery29 * Entertainment Weekly * BuzzFeed * NPR’s On Point * Town & Country * Real Simple * New York Post * Palm Beach Post * Toronto Star * Orange Country Register * Bustle * Bookish * BookPage * Kirkus* BBC Culture* Debutiful   Winner of the New England Society Book Award   A Book of the Month Pick (September)  An Amazon Best of the Month/Spotlight Pick (October)  The Nervous Breakdown Book Club (October)  An Apple Best of the Month (October)  A Bookish “Kelly’s Pick” (Fall)  “Exquisite and harrowing . . . [WILD GAME] is so gorgeously written and deeply insightful, and with a line of narrative tension that never slacks, from the first page to the last, that it’s one you’ll likely read in a single, delicious sitting.” —New York Times Book Review  "Wild Game is a memoir, but it reads very much like a novel with a first-person narrator, bringing readers closely into scenes with vivid sensual detail that paints the atmosphere with the adoring eyes of the enthralled daughter the author once was. Wild Game, for all its luscious prose and tantalizing elements, is ultimately about the slow and painful process of losing a mother." —NPR   "This electrifying, gorgeously written memoir will hold you captive until the last word." —People, “Book of the Week”   "Brodeur is a deft memoirist, portraying Malabar as a woman traumatized by a violent parent and early tragedy. In this stunning tale of treachery—unsettling yet seductive—we are led through some of the darkest and most alluring corridors of the human heart." —O Magazine   "[A] vivid memoir…[Brodeur] writes beautifully, even tenderly, as a mother herself, aware of repercussions, knowing how it all ended." —BBC   "Perhaps everyone has a memoir in them—but only some lives are instant and undeniable blockbusters. Adrienne Brodeur’s is one...Brodeur tells a story so extraordinary, so juicy, and so well that your only option is to buy copies for your friends, too...The miracle of Wild Game is that Brodeur’s writing is as incredible as her story. Brodeur captures the emotional gradations in a tense room as deftly as she establishes the sea salt air and elaborate dinners of her childhood...[Wild Game] will undeniably be the book club pick of 2019." —Refinery29   “Adrienne Brodeur’s breathless memoir starts off with a bang…Every single turn of this memoir is gripping…Brodeur’s descriptions of her mother read like a paramour waxing rhapsodic, the recollections of someone in inescapable thrall…In Wild Game, Brodeur shows us that what defines our lives is choosing just how bound we want to be."” —San Francisco Chronicle   “Brodeur’s memoir has set both Hollywood and publishing ablaze.” —Entertainment Weekly   “Shocking, poignant, unputdownable.” —People Magazine   “It’s the kind of juicy what-is-happening memoir that just begs to be made into a movie.”— —

Notă biografică

ADRIENNE BRODEUR began her career in publishing as the co-founder, along with filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, of the fiction magazine Zoetrope: All-Story, which won the National Magazine Award for Best Fiction three times and launched the careers of many writers. She was a book editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for many years and, currently, she is the Executive Director of Aspen Words, a program of the Aspen Institute. She has published essays in the New York Times. She lives in Cambridge with her husband and children.

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A daughter's tale of living in the thrall of her magnetic, complicated mother, and the chilling consequences of her complicity Every time I fail to become more like my mother, I become more like me. On a hot August night on Cape Cod, when Adrienne was 14, her mother Malabar woke her at midnight with five simple words that would set the course of both of their lives for years to come- Ben Souther just kissed me. Adrienne instantly became her mother's confidante and helpmate, blossoming in the sudden light of her attention; from then on, Malabar came to rely on her daughter to help orchestrate what would become an epic affair with her husband's closest friend. The affair would have calamitous consequences for everyone involved, impacting Adrienne's life in profound ways, driving her into a doomed marriage of her own, and then into a deep depression. Only years later will she find the strength to embrace her life -- and her mother -- on her own terms. This is a book about how the people close to us can break our hearts simply because they have access to them. It's about the lies we tell in order to justify the choices we make. It's about mothers and daughters and the nature of family. And ultimately, it's a story of resilience, a reminder that we need not be the parents our parents were to us; that moving forward is possible. 'Not since The Glass Castle has a memoir conveyed such a complex family bond, in which love, devotion, and corrosive secrets are inextricably linked' J. Courtney Sullivan