Disobedience - Softcover

Hamilton, Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0552998907 ISBN 13: 9780552998901

Verlag: Black Swan, 2002

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Reading someone else’s e-mail is a quiet, clean enterprise. There is no pitter-pattering around the room, no opening and closing the desk drawers, no percussive creasing as you draw the paper from the envelope and unfold it . . . In and out of the files, no trace. It could be the work of a ghost, this electronic eavesdropping. Seventeen-year-old Henry Shaw learns of his mother’s passionate affair when he stumbles across her e-mail correspondence with her lover. His image of her is shattered, but he cannot resist his electronic eavesdropping. Henry’s younger sister, Elvira, is scornful of technology, stuck as she is in 1862 with her Civil War infantry regiment. For Elvira, much to her mother’s sorrow and her historian father’s pride, is a hardcore Civil War re-enactor. Displaced from Vermont to Chicago, each member of the Shaw family finds their dreams hard to realize and their expectations of life turned on their head. Disobedience is a compassionate, sharp, wicked and utterly contemporary novel about families, love and loyalty by a major literary talent.

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When seventeen-year-old Henry Shaw accidentally stumbles into his mother's e-mail file and finds her confession of infidelity, he is unable to resist becoming an electronic evesdropper. For a year, he secretly monitors his mother's passionate other life with her lover. But Hentry's observations, set down a decade after that fateful year, are much more than the 'old story' of adultery his mother deemed her affair to be. His confused feelings about his mother's secret infatuation colour his own tentative explorations of love and sex, and disturb the way he views his father and his wayward younger sister. With her inimitable grace, humour and compassion, Jane Hamilton has created a novel full of rich insights into the nature of love and the deep, mysterious bonds that hold families together.

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• Verlag: Black Swan
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0552998907
• ISBN 13: 9780552998901
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352