A Certain Age
A Novel
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نقد و بررسی
Beatriz Williams returns to the fertile ground of early-twentieth- century New York high society. There are two main characters from whose points of view the story is told, Theresa and Sophie, whose sections are narrated by Mia Barron and Adrienne Rusk. In Barron's exceptional narration, she delivers the exact right attitude for Theresa, both brash and somewhat vulnerable. In contrast, Rusk's portrayal of Sophie is, by and large, so dry and emotionless that it significantly slows the book down or discourages listening altogether. Narrator Barbara Goodson also has a small but well-done part as a gossip columnist who serves to move the story forward. J.L.K. © AudioFile 2016, Portland, Maine
January 1, 2016
Tap dancing in on the heels of Williams's latest, LibraryReads pick "Along the Infinite Sea", this Jazz Age story opens with glamorous Mrs. Theresa Marshall actually (shockingly) falling in love with her young lover, World War I aviator hero Octavian Rofrano. What follows is an update of Richard Strauss's opera "Der Rosenkavalier".
Copyright 2016 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
January 1, 2016
Tap dancing in on the heels of Williams's latest, LibraryReads pick Along the Infinite Sea, this Jazz Age story opens with glamorous Mrs. Theresa Marshall actually (shockingly) falling in love with her young lover, World War I aviator hero Octavian Rofrano. What follows is an update of Richard Strauss's opera Der Rosenkavalier.
Copyright 2016 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
April 15, 2016
Told from the alternating perspectives of old-moneyed socialite Theresa Marshall and nouveau-riche heiress Sophie Fortescue, the story of their mutual love for the charmingly gallant Octavian Rofrano, a WWI flying ace, is one of unbridled scheming versus selfless innocence. Though desiring Octavian as nothing more than a devoted lover, Theresa feels threatened when he develops genuine affection for Sophie, who has recently and reluctantly become engaged to Theresa's brother. Charged with uncovering any skeletons in the Fortescue closet, Octavian stumbles upon a murder mystery that profoundly deepens his connection to the winsome yet willful young woman who is rebelling against her controlling father's restrictive plans for her life. Inspired by Richard Strauss' opera Der Rosenkavalier and updated to attain a 1920's Jazz Age sensibility, Williams' (Along the Infinite Sea, 2015) sophisticated take on a steamy May-December love triangle teems with all the immediacy and intrigue of those heady days when headstrong women were bucking the system to find their own voices and chart their own courses.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2016, American Library Association.)
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