The Weird Sisters

ISBN-13: 9780425244142 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 400 str.

Eleanor Brown

Opis

This is the "delightful" (People) New York Times bestseller that's earned raves from Sarah Blake, Helen Simonson, and reviewers everywhere-the story of three sisters who love each other, but just don't happen to like each other very much... Three sisters have returned to their childhood home, reuniting the eccentric Andreas family. Here, books are a passion (there is no problem a library card can't solve) and TV is something other people watch. Their father-a professor of Shakespeare who speaks almost exclusively in verse-named them after the Bard's heroines. It's a lot to live up to.The sisters have a hard time communicating with their parents and their lovers, but especially with one another. What can the shy homebody eldest sister, the fast-living middle child, and the bohemian youngest sibling have in common? Only that none has found life to be what was expected; and now, faced with their parents' frailty and their own personal disappointments, not even a book can solve what ails them...

Recenzje

Praise for The Weird Sisters

Delightful. People 

Irresistible. The Boston Globe

At once hilarious, thought-provoking, and poignant, this sparkling and devourable debut explores the roles that we play with our siblings, whether we want to or not. The Weird Sisters is a tale of the complex family ties that threaten to pull us apart, but sometimes draw us together instead. J. Courtney Sullivan, author of Friends and Strangers
 
Even if you don t have a sister, you may feel like you have one after reading this hilarious and utterly winsome novel. Eleanor Brown skillfully ties and then unties the Gordian knot of sisterhood, writing with such knowingness that when the ending came, and the three Andreas sisters--who had slunk home for a rest from themselves only to find to their horror their other two sisters there as well--emerge, I sighed the guilty sigh of pleasure and yes, of recognition. Sarah Blake, author of The Guest Book
 
Get thee to a bookstore....Brown is such a clever writer, and she s written such an endearing story about sisterly affection and the possibilities of redemption, that it s easy to recommend The Weird Sisters. Take Polonius s good advice and read on this book. The Washington Post
 
Good sense and good humor...buoyant. The New York Times

Delightful Brown doesn t make things easy on herself. She bestows distinct traces of prickliness, self-obsession, and irresponsibility on her women. They re not storybook heroines but as susceptible to bad behavior as any of us. And she uses a first-person plural narrator a collective we that speaks for every sister yet not any specific one with a scope wide enough to view their inner turmoil and outer mistakes with wry understanding. The trick could have failed, yet it somehow doesn t and pulls us into the heart of the family circle .That s Brown s great gift: She draws you in and makes you believe her weird sisters aren t so weird after all. The Miami Herald
 
Brown writes sweetly of the transition so many adults struggle to make before their parents eyes, from children to caretakers themselves. The Cleveland Plain Dealer
 
Equal parts clever and heartfelt. Associated Press
 
[A] fine debut novel...[Brown] has a crisp style and a flair for dialogue. The Columbus Dispatch
 
Delightful and fascinating....A magnificent tapestry of a tale. The Sacramento Bee
 
[A] charming debut novel cleverly written from the sisters perspective...Though the book is named after witches in the play Macbeth, you need not be a Shakespeare scholar to fall in love with this feel-good story or the bewitching sisters. Woman s Day
 
A page-turner from the start. Ladies Home Journal
 
You don t have to have a sister or be a fan of the Bard to love Brow s bright, literate debut .The supporting cast removed, erudite dad; ailing mom; a crew of locals; Rose s long-suffering fiancé is a punchy delight, but the stage clearly belongs to the sisters; Macbeth s witches would be proud of the toil and trouble they stir up. Publishers Weekly (starred review)
 
Lovely This novel should appeal to Shakespeare lovers, bibliophiles, fans of novels in academic settings, and stories of sisterhood. The narration is a creative and original blending of the three Weird Sisters as one. Library Journal
 
There are no false steps in this debut novel: The humor, lyricism, and realism characterizing this lovely book will appeal to fans of good modern fiction. Booklist
 
What a joy to read. What a VOICE. The Weird Sisters is family drama dissected by verbal scalpel. If with and language could protect against growing old, these bewitching sisters might never have to grow up. Helen Simonson, author of Major Pettigrew s Last Stand

O autorze

Eleanor Brown is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Any Other Family, The Weird Sisters and The Light of Paris, and the editor of the anthology A Paris All Your Own. She lives with her family in Colorado.