Noemí Jiménez Furquet Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

"When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path. As green and inexperienced as the men sent to Vietnam to fight, Frankie is overwhelmed by the chaos and destruction of war, as well as the unexpected trauma of coming home to a changed and politically divided America."--

I write this sitting at the kitchen sink' is the first line of a novel about love, sibling rivalry and a bohemian existence in a crumbling castle in the middle of nowhere. Cassandra Mortmin's journal records her fadingly glamorous stepmother, her beautiful, wistful older sister and the man to whom they owe both their isolation and poverty - Father. The author of one experimental novel, and a minor cause celebre, he has since suffered from writer's block and is determined to drag his family down with him. But if the iron has entered Father's soul it hasn't penetrated Cassandra's ...

Eine Frau, Anfang vierzig, erwidert die Liebe eines jungen Mannes. Er ist zwanzig Jahre jünger. Und als Catherine Cumfrit, verwitwet, Mutter einer erwachsenen Tochter, schließlich Christopher Monckton heiratet, zieht sie sich nicht nur das Mißfallen ihrer Familie zu, sondern auch verständnisloses Kopfschütteln in ihrem Freundeskreis. Da prallen Lebenslust und Sorge vor dem Altern aufeinander, da tauchen Probleme auf, die vorhersehbar waren. Liebe ist die Liebesgeschichte eines ungleichen Paares, spannungsvoll und pointiert erzählt, nach Elizabeth von Arnims Verzauberter April ein besonderes Lesevergnügen, voller Situationskomik und Selbstironie, mit kräftigen Hieben gegen die Konvention.