An amateur farewell
14.99 €
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An amateur farewell
14.99 €
Aaron has suffered from overprotection all his life. Partially paralyzed since childhood, he was in the caring clutches of his mother, sister and cane, which he tried to get rid of at every opportunity. Meeting Dorothy, a slightly cynical, independent and cold doctor, becomes a breath of freedom for Aaron. And now they are married, happy and self-sufficient. But one day an old tree falls on their cozy and careless house, and happiness is gone. Aaron feels as if his previous life was taken and erased. Everything must start anew, alone. He continues to live, go to work, even joke, but as if by inertia. But one day he sees Dorothy on the street. And soon she is already walking with him, and he has conversations with her and is surprised that no one sees her. Dorothy's ghost helps him live on. Aaron watches others start affairs, dine out, garden, and enjoy life's nonsense. He can't do it. Only in Dorothy's presence does he find himself. Maybe it's because he doesn't know how to say goodbye? And is it worth learning this art? A subtle novel about loss and rebirth, full of warm humor and unexpected optimism.
Anne Tyler is a modern Jane Austen, she creates unique little universes consisting of a narrow circle of people
USA Today
Tyler hits the heart, no one has managed to show so accurately and without emotion what it is like to say goodbye to those you have lost.
The Boston Globe
Classic Anne Tyler. The miracle of this writer is her amazing commitment to one theme, in which she has no equal. The nature of family, the nature of marriage - no one writes about this more truthfully and accurately than Tyler.
Los Angeles Times
At first a slow, intimate novel, it explodes into a romantic emotional climax at the end, as if ordinary life had suddenly turned into a colorful opera.
Entertainment Weekly
While other novelists are fascinated by tragedy, violence, gothic darkness and postmodern experiments, Anne Tyler writes classic realistic novels about family, everyday life, unremarkable people, but in this ordinariness of hers such abysses open up that no postmodernism has ever dreamed of.
The Guardian
Anne Tyler is a modern Jane Austen, she creates unique little universes consisting of a narrow circle of people
USA Today
Tyler hits the heart, no one has managed to show so accurately and without emotion what it is like to say goodbye to those you have lost.
The Boston Globe
Classic Anne Tyler. The miracle of this writer is her amazing commitment to one theme, in which she has no equal. The nature of family, the nature of marriage - no one writes about this more truthfully and accurately than Tyler.
Los Angeles Times
At first a slow, intimate novel, it explodes into a romantic emotional climax at the end, as if ordinary life had suddenly turned into a colorful opera.
Entertainment Weekly
While other novelists are fascinated by tragedy, violence, gothic darkness and postmodern experiments, Anne Tyler writes classic realistic novels about family, everyday life, unremarkable people, but in this ordinariness of hers such abysses open up that no postmodernism has ever dreamed of.
The Guardian
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