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From a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, a ferociously intimate story of a family facing the ultimate question: how far will we go to save the people we love the most?
When Margaret's fiancé, John, is hospitalized for depression in 1960s London, she faces a choice: carry on with their plans despite what she now knows of his condition, or back away from the suffering it may bring her. She decides to marry him. Imagine Me Gone is the unforgettable story of what unfolds from this act of love and faith. At the heart of it is their eldest son, Michael, a brilliant, anxious music fanatic who makes sense of the world through parody. Over the span of decades, his younger siblings – the savvy and responsible Celia and the ambitious and tightly controlled Alec – struggle along with their mother to care for Michael's increasingly troubled and precarious existence.
Told in alternating points of view by all five members of the family, this searing,… (tovább)
Eredeti megjelenés éve: 2016
Enciklopédia 4
Szereplők népszerűség szerint
Henry James · Donna Summer · Edith Wharton · Ford Madox Ford
Várólistára tette 3
Kívánságlistára tette 1
Népszerű idézetek
And really, what would I have done all these years without a monster sound system in my car? Where else, beyond the walls of a club, can you experience bass loud enough to wipe your memory clean without complaint from the neighbors? Sound systems are what turn cars into escape vehicles, even if you've got nowhere to go. A drive to the convenience store is five minutes of that storm blowing in from paradise.
III/Michael
I disappear for twenty minutes into Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier while John does the dishes, fighting past my initial irritation at all the class nonsense and how no one will say anything of significance to anyone else because it's simply not done to be explicit. Like in James or Wharton. Those novels where you're screaming at characters to go ahead already and blurt it out, save us a hundred pages of prevarication.
I./Margaret
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I got a programming job at a small firm stocked with early videogame fiends who spent their off-hours disassembling Ataris. Later, during my various periods of under- or unemployment, my mother would say, Why not go back to computers? You were so good at them. But she hadn't experienced the conditions I knew would be the same wherever I went: the stupefying lack of humor, the wretched taste in music, and all the unforgivable clothing. […] These boyos were ignorant of the entire canon of twentieth-century menswear.
II./Michael
[S]he is the avatar of an entirely new dispensation, machine-driven but secretly brokenhearted. I am conviced she is aware of this but tortured by it. „This monstrous, monstrous force.” That's how she described her career to Rolling Stone. „This whole production of people and props that you're responsible for, by audiences and everything that rules you until you take it upon yourself to be a machine. And at some point a machine breaks down.” She's all carved up by ears and eyes like mine. I'm part of that monstrous force. And I can't help it. The music is salvific.
I./Michael
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