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Cheri
Jo Ann Beard
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Belletristik/Erzählende Literatur
Beschreibung
An Irish Times Book of the Year 2023
'An extraordinary achievement' Mary Gaitskill
'In the hands of a maestro, less can be so much more' Independent
Cheri has been living with cancer for many years. Now, she is dying. As she navigates the final weeks of her life, and takes charge of the manner of her death, she is flooded with childhood memories, and returns to the present with a renewed appreciation for the brilliance of life around her: the autumn has never been so beautiful, her daughters never as radiant. Brave, incredibly strong and deeply loved, Cheri makes one last nerve-wracking journey across the country with her girls and her friends, knowing relief waits welcoming as a frozen lake on the other side.
A masterpiece of fiction and memory, Cheri is a heart-breaking but glorious celebration of all the moments of beauty and pain that make an individual life, right up until its very last moments.
Rezensionen
Beard <b>honours the beautiful, the sacred, and the comic</b> in life, and for life'
<b>Extraordinary and powerful</b>
Jo Ann Beard is <b> a formidable talent</b>. Her writing is <b>darkly moving, full of audacious narrative surprises, and, at times, unexpectedly - almost unbearably - suspenseful</b>
<b>Taut and troubling</b> ... rendered with <b>exquisite </b>restraint and precision ... <b>as powerful as the close of <i>The Death of Ivan Ilyich</i></b>
<b>A gem of a book </b>... Beard communicates, quietly and almost plainly, a <b>breathless </b>desperation for life and all its terrible beauty
<b>As controlled and convincing as art</b>
<i>Cheri </i>is <b>a masterpiece</b>
<b>Beard'
<b>Beard'
A <b> tour de force</b> ... feels like <b>a bravura attempt to rescue</b> Cheri from the loneliness of her death
<i>Cheri </i>is <b>richly packed.</b> The details are laid before the reader with <b>a simplicity that feels like grace.</b> Beard'
<b>Profoundly sad, poignant, and filled with the flabbergasting abundance of life ...</b> <b>an extraordinary achievement</b>
I was shocked by my emotional response to it. It'
<b>A rare talent, and a magnificent writer</b> ... <b>She is</b> <b>extraordinary</b>
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