State of the Union - Douglas Kennedy
KORTE INHOUD
When we next meet Hannah, 30 years on, her comfortable life with Dan (now a respected Portland surgeon) is set to implode. Their grown-up daughter, Lizzie, has gone missing in Boston and, somewhere in Middle America, the born-again Christian Tobias Judson is penning a kiss-and-tell memoir about his years as a revolutionary beatnik.
Blockbusters can disappoint with their lack of emotional intelligence, but Kennedy's novels are an honourable exception. By an accumulation of personal history and circumstantial detail (we are always kept abreast of Hannah's exact salary and preferred radio station) his characters emerge as flesh-and-blood creations. The novel's closing set piece, in which Hannah comes head to head with America's evangelical right, is pure cinema, but provides the climatic resolution that we've been waiting for.
Pitching his narrative voice somewhere between John Irving and Desperate Housewives, Kennedy gets away with some obvious platitudes about marriage, growing older, and even the meaning of lif...
Blockbusters can disappoint with their lack of emotional intelligence, but Kennedy's novels are an honourable exception. By an accumulation of personal history and circumstantial detail (we are always kept abreast of Hannah's exact salary and preferred radio station) his characters emerge as flesh-and-blood creations. The novel's closing set piece, in which Hannah comes head to head with America's evangelical right, is pure cinema, but provides the climatic resolution that we've been waiting for.
Pitching his narrative voice somewhere between John Irving and Desperate Housewives, Kennedy gets away with some obvious platitudes about marriage, growing older, and even the meaning of lif...
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2007Uitgever: Atria Paperback462 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 145160209XISBN-13: 9781451602098Koop dit boek tweedehands
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