PDF-Bücher Costalegre, by Courtney Maum
Costalegre, by Courtney Maum
PDF-Bücher Costalegre, by Courtney Maum
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This story of a daughter searching for connection all around her has a sharp cutting edge, a world which changes its mood in an instant; bleak as the dregs of a wine-soaked dinner, then bullish as a house of hapless surrealists attempting to boil an egg. Memorable and meaningful, Maum's work remains with me as a reminder of love in the agony of teenage years and art in the terror of war.--Amelia Gray, author of ISADORAThis is a fascinating, lively, and exquisitely crafted novel.--Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)A brilliantly arch and haunting novel of privilege and deprivation.--BooklistA lush chronicle of wealth, art, adventure, loneliness, love, and folly toldby a narrator you won't be able to forget.--Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)
Über den Autor und weitere Mitwirkende
Courtney Maum is the author of Touch (a New York Time editor's choice and NPR's Best of 2017), as well as the acclaimed I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You. Her book reviews, essays and articles about the writing life have been widely published in outlets such as The New York Times, O the Oprah Magazine, BuzzFeed, Interview Magazine and Electric Literature.
Produktinformation
Gebundene Ausgabe: 240 Seiten
Verlag: TIN HOUSE BOOKS (16. Juli 2019)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 1947793365
ISBN-13: 978-1947793361
Größe und/oder Gewicht:
13,5 x 2,5 x 20,3 cm
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Amazon Bestseller-Rang:
Nr. 126.883 in Fremdsprachige Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Fremdsprachige Bücher)
This gorgeous novel uses the fraught relationship between Peggy Guggenheim and her daughter as a jumping off point and take readers to a beautiful but claustrophobic hideaway in Mexico where a house full of surrealists are riding out World War II. By turns heartbreaking and hilarious, this novel packs a big emotional punch.
Courtney Maum’s COSTALEGRE has a quality missing in most contemporary fiction: true originality. Hers is a novel of passion, wanting, poetry, and the compelling ruminations of the teenaged Lara. To repeat myself, this is a story told and conceived with appealing originality. Give Maum’s novel a read, and prepare to be dazzled.
I couldn't put it down!
This is a spare, elegiac, poetic, and moving book of longing, especially the hunger for parental love. I read it in one sitting. But I ask myself—would I have liked it as much if it wasn’t an historical, fictional portrait about the daughter of the celebrated and enigmatic Peggy Guggenheim? Did that add just the right mystique, knowing that this wasn’t just ANY fourteen-year-old? It’s hard for me to say, as that fact pervaded the narrative. However, I was transported by the voice of the narrator, Lara, the daughter of the art philanthropist, Leonora. The relationship is fraught, as the mother is a self-centered and self-serving woman incapable of love.Written like a diary by Lara, she also includes letters to her brother and the botanical lexicon of numerous plants and flowers of the exotic locale, Costalegre, on the Pacific and western side of Jalisco, in Mexico. It is 1937, and Hitler’s power is gaining momentum. There have been several movies and books (fiction and non-fiction) about the “heroes†who hid some of the great art from the Nazis, so that Hitler wouldn’t destroy it (if it didn’t conform to his politics). Here is another—but the thrust of the novel is not about the adventure of hiding the art; it is about an intelligent, artistic, and neglected adolescent girl seeking love and connection.Leonora has taken Lara, her current husband, and several surrealist artists with her to Costalegre, where she feels secure from Hitler’s advances. She awaits a boat that is supposed to be coming, stored with the art that Leonora wants to sequester away for safe keeping. She doesn’t care that she has taken her daughter out of school and far away from her brother. Her concern is her art/artists, good food, sex, attention, and having control over everyone in her life.There’s a lot of white space in this book, which allowed room for me to silently convey my thoughts and feelings in response to Lara’s words. Her sensitivity and maturity is eloquently manifested, despite her mother’s indifference. She seeks kinship during her sojourns on the island, and I was captivated by her awkward but tender appeal to attain a deep connection and understanding.“That he will tell me something and it will be true. That he will continue to live in his small house…and listening to people…I don’t think I have ever been contemplated.†Like all of us, Lara yearns to be contemplated, observed, considered. She craves affection and reciprocity. Her growth pains and emotional hunger pains are lightly stated but deeply felt.
I've never written a review like this for a book, but I simply did not enjoy it. I chose this book because the subject matter seemed right up my ally. I love books about the ultra-rich, the 1%, the upper-crust to escape into the culture and times of their lives. I'm also Latina and am drawn to books that take place in Latin America so I knew that it would be the perfect choice.My problem was that I didn't develop any fondness or care for the characters. I view reading as an event for which I set aside tea and time every single night for the past 50-odd years. With this book I didn't look forward to the tea & Kindle as normal. The story is written from the point of view of the protagonist, an adolescent teen with all the baggage that implies. Her diary entries are sometimes short, sometimes long, and reveal her secret thoughts about all the goings-on on the Mexican coast. There were times when I seemed to hear the author's voice come through instead of the young girl's, and that's when I really enjoyed the book. But when it came back to the narrator's lamenting about this artist or that artist, or how one feels about the other (as teenagers do!) I became disinterested. I didn't care about any of the artists except for the C. and Ferdinand.I gave it three stars because I like the author - I want to know more about her and what else she has done. There are some sentences in the book that I've jotted down only because they are so weirdly unusual that they evoke specific childhood feelings. (".... his mouth filled with ducks." I feel like this is a picture I saw once, the book is filled with surreal images like this). I feel badly since I rarely come across a book I don't enjoy, but this one just wasn't for me.
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