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Songs Without Words
- Narrateur(s): Cassandra Campbell
- Durée: 13 h et 56 min
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Description
Liz and Sarabeth were childhood neighbors in the suburbs of Northern California, brought as close as sisters by the suicide of Sarabeth's mother when the girls were just 16. In the decades that followed - through Liz's marriage and the birth of her children, through Sarabeth's attempts to make a happy life for herself despite the shadow cast by her mother's act, their relationship remained a source of continuity and strength.
But when Liz's adolescent daughter enters dangerous waters that threaten to engulf the family, the fault lines in the women's friendship are revealed, and both Liz and Sarabeth are forced to reexamine their most deeply held beliefs about their connection. Songs Without Words is about the sometimes confining roles we take on in our closest relationships, about the familial myths that shape us, both as children and as parents, and about the limits, and the power, of the friendships we create when we are young.
Ce que les critiques en disent
"Songs Without Words is an eloquent, on occasion harrowing account of friendship and its limits, the mind and its fatal fragilities, and the saving graces of human nature. Packer captures mental pathologies exceptionally well and writes beautifully about despair and love and how they travel together throughout a lifetime." (Kay Redfield Jamison, author of An Unquiet Mind)
"A hauntingly believable portrait of grief.... [Packer] shows us that grief is not, for better or for worse, a solitary affair.... Slowly and carefully, Packer shows her characters putting their lives back together after a traumatizing blow.... The two old friends’ moving reconciliation closes a quiet narrative whose emotions, we come to realize, run deep and true.... Commendably ambitious and ultimately rewarding." (Kirkus Reviews)
"Welcome back to Packer country, a richly psychological terrain where finding the balance between responsibility to others and obligation to oneself is never obvious or easy.... Engrossing, forgiving and quietly wise, Songs never makes a false step as Packer keeps both the pages and her readers’ minds turning until the very end." (People)