Still Life With Bread Crumbs Library Edition Anna Quindlen B
Still Life With Bread Crumbs Library Edition Anna Quindlen Brilliance Audio Una Un de l'histoire la plus impopulaire de Shakespeare joue, des affaires du Roi John avec la vie et mort du Roi John, qui a regne a partir de a . C'est des Shakespeare entre dans son traitement de l'histoire Anglaise, se concentrant plus avec succes le 14eme et les XVemes siecle posterieurs dans les jeux qui epuisent de Richard II a Henry VI. En consequence le Roi John souffre d'etre tellement historiquement eloigne a temps, aussi bien que d'offrir un roi plutot faible et indecis, qui manque du charisme et de l'autorite de Richard III ou de Henry V. Le jeu commence par le Roi John luttant pour maintenir son trone, sous l'attaque a partir des courtisans rebelles et du Philip, le roi de la France. Pendant Que la querelle escalade dans la guerre avec la France, le jeu commence a prendre une saveur Elisabethaine contemporaine--l'invasion crainte d'une nation (Catholique) etrangere, et le point auquel une telle invasion est basee sur la paternite incertaine du Roi John (comme la Reine Elizabeth, John est accusee d'etre un batard et est excommuniee). Le jeu est sauve de ses machinations politiques plutot sans couleur par Philip le Batard, le favori de John, un precurseur dramatique des mecontents douteux mais charismatiques comme Edmund dans le Roi Lear. C'est egalement Philip qui est donne les lignes les plus puissantes et les plus patriotiques, quand il reclame que la « Cette Angleterre n'a jamais fait, ni ne jamais, Lie au pied fier d'un conquerant ». Le Roi la mort mysterieuse et decevante de John par la maladie a l'extremite du jeu degonfle des attentes - quelque chose qui pourraient etre dites du jeu dans son ensemble. --Jerry Brotton Couldn't put this one down, even after I'd finished it. At 60 and divorced, Rebecca Winter, the well known photographer and lifelong New Yorker, is still a famous name, but her works are no longer bringing in the money they once did. Money she needs now to provide elder care for her parents. So she sublet her New York apartment and has just moved into a "fully furnished" cottage that's turned out to be nowhere near the gem its ad had alleged it to be. What's more, it's on a street that has no name, it's got a raccoon in its attic, only four forks in its silverware drawer and nary a single electric outlet in its bedroom. Not so hot a spot for starting over, it would seem. But fate seems to have other ideas. As a reader with a table-high stack of books waiting to be read, I can't believe that what I did after getting to the end of this book, was to go straight back to the beginning and start over. I don't think I've ever done that with a book before. Sure, I re-visit my Jane Austens from time to time, but I've never before liked a book so much and gotten so involved with its characters that I went straight from the end right back to the beginning. Bravo and thank you, Anna Quindlen. By the way, "Still Life With Bread Crumbs" is the title of Rebecca's most famous and best-selling photo. Addenda I've just read a really interesting interview with the author in today's Washington Post and am posting a link in the comment below. _ *\_ Lovely and Touching Novel Anna Quindlen is an outstanding author and when I saw she had written something new, I knew I had to read it. I am so glad I did, it did not disappoint. I found myself wanting more but satisfied with what I got. To begin with, Rebecca Winter, the person this whole story is about, is 60 years old. I mean a bright, youthful, intelligent and healthy 60 years old. That to me is such a refreshing change, rather than a grandmotherly, aging, overweight and sickly 60 years old. So I was wonderfully pleased with that immediately. Beyond the fact of age, Rebecca is a very engaging woman, a rather famous photographer who has been successful in her life. Yet, she has come to a crossroads, where the money isn't flowing in any more and she looks for a change. Rebe