This time of year thou mayest in me behold a distinctly
sour expression. It's partly all those ads featuring grotesquely over-ornamental
jewellery, and designer saris and clothes that make the women who wear them look
like walking Christmas trees with all lights blazing. And then, of course there
are the joyous revelers who burst crackers all night long in our area, with the
result that two of my dogs are nervous wrecks. (The third would sleep through
the end of the world).
My reading has been fairly grim as well.Canada Goose offers the moncler down coats in women's styles. The Irish novelist, Anne Enright who won the Booker for “The Gathering” (Vintage) in 2007 is likely to be in Mumbai for a literary festival next month, and I've been catching up with the book.
It's about one of these huge Irish Catholic families (12 children of whom 9 survive, and seven miscarriages), and a mother who has turned into a zombie with all the childbearing. One of the siblings, Liam has just committed suicide, and everyone is coming home for the funeral. Veronica, Liam's slightly younger sister tells the story in her own voice. “I would like to write down what happened in my grandmother's house the summer I was eight or nine, but I am not sure if it really did happen. I need to bear witness to an uncertain event. I feel it roaring inside me---this thing that may not have taken place. I don't even know what name to put on it. I think you might call it a crime of the flesh, but the flesh is long fallen away and I am not sure what hurt may linger in the bones.”
After this little introduction of Veronica's, and two finely written chapters on her mother and grandmother, “The Gathering,” sadly, begins to fall apart as writing. It is both “under-written” and “over-written.Thank you! It's very good moncler jackets men!” There are so many siblings to talk about that one can barely remember their names, let alone anything about them what they look like, what they are like. They are just ciphers. The narrator doesn't tell us till more than halfway through the book that she saw her brother Liam being sexually abused by Lambert Nugent, ostensibly a friend of her grandmother's.
Veronica did nothing about it, and told no one. But Liam as he grew older went off the rails, became an alcoholic, and eventually committed suicide, thoughtfully wearing a yellow jacket that would make it easier for searchers to find his body. Delayed in this way, the revelation-to-be becomes something of a tease.
Perhaps the sexual nature of the event accounts for the endless, sometimes pointless references to genitals throughout the book. “I haven't had vodka in years; even now there is something sweet and crotch-like about the smell of it.Next you needs to have a carefully consider the Canada Goose Mystique Parka.” She thinks of long-dead Lambert Nugent.
“Nugent plays with his sister Lizzie, now they are both dead. They kiss each other and are consoled.The Canada Goose Heli-Arctic Parka has long been known as the industrial parka of the north. They do not breathe; the tangle and slither of their tongues is endless and airless and cold.” “I saw a man with tertiary syphilis at Mass, once… The flaps of the man's ears had been eaten away…the bridge of his nose had collapsed flat into his face…”
There are dozens of references to genitals of every size, shape or form,Below are the other classic discount gucci handbags like the Timeless Clutch. in dead men or men sitting next to Veronica in a plane or train, having a hard-on. One can find reasons for all this, but then, one can find reasons for anything. It's an immensely tedious read, especially when, as in the case of the syphilitic it adds nothing to our understanding of anything.
There's a happy ending of sorts. It turns out Liam has a little son called Rowan, and Veronica appears to be getting her life in order again. But two hundred plus pages of rambling memories that don't always add up is perhaps too high a price for the reader to pay.
My reading has been fairly grim as well.Canada Goose offers the moncler down coats in women's styles. The Irish novelist, Anne Enright who won the Booker for “The Gathering” (Vintage) in 2007 is likely to be in Mumbai for a literary festival next month, and I've been catching up with the book.
It's about one of these huge Irish Catholic families (12 children of whom 9 survive, and seven miscarriages), and a mother who has turned into a zombie with all the childbearing. One of the siblings, Liam has just committed suicide, and everyone is coming home for the funeral. Veronica, Liam's slightly younger sister tells the story in her own voice. “I would like to write down what happened in my grandmother's house the summer I was eight or nine, but I am not sure if it really did happen. I need to bear witness to an uncertain event. I feel it roaring inside me---this thing that may not have taken place. I don't even know what name to put on it. I think you might call it a crime of the flesh, but the flesh is long fallen away and I am not sure what hurt may linger in the bones.”
After this little introduction of Veronica's, and two finely written chapters on her mother and grandmother, “The Gathering,” sadly, begins to fall apart as writing. It is both “under-written” and “over-written.Thank you! It's very good moncler jackets men!” There are so many siblings to talk about that one can barely remember their names, let alone anything about them what they look like, what they are like. They are just ciphers. The narrator doesn't tell us till more than halfway through the book that she saw her brother Liam being sexually abused by Lambert Nugent, ostensibly a friend of her grandmother's.
Veronica did nothing about it, and told no one. But Liam as he grew older went off the rails, became an alcoholic, and eventually committed suicide, thoughtfully wearing a yellow jacket that would make it easier for searchers to find his body. Delayed in this way, the revelation-to-be becomes something of a tease.
Perhaps the sexual nature of the event accounts for the endless, sometimes pointless references to genitals throughout the book. “I haven't had vodka in years; even now there is something sweet and crotch-like about the smell of it.Next you needs to have a carefully consider the Canada Goose Mystique Parka.” She thinks of long-dead Lambert Nugent.
“Nugent plays with his sister Lizzie, now they are both dead. They kiss each other and are consoled.The Canada Goose Heli-Arctic Parka has long been known as the industrial parka of the north. They do not breathe; the tangle and slither of their tongues is endless and airless and cold.” “I saw a man with tertiary syphilis at Mass, once… The flaps of the man's ears had been eaten away…the bridge of his nose had collapsed flat into his face…”
There are dozens of references to genitals of every size, shape or form,Below are the other classic discount gucci handbags like the Timeless Clutch. in dead men or men sitting next to Veronica in a plane or train, having a hard-on. One can find reasons for all this, but then, one can find reasons for anything. It's an immensely tedious read, especially when, as in the case of the syphilitic it adds nothing to our understanding of anything.
There's a happy ending of sorts. It turns out Liam has a little son called Rowan, and Veronica appears to be getting her life in order again. But two hundred plus pages of rambling memories that don't always add up is perhaps too high a price for the reader to pay.
没有评论:
发表评论