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How Well Do You Know Your Spouse? • • • • • (bewertet mit 4 von 5 Punkten) The Pilot's Wife looks at that common subject of modern fiction, alienation that separates nonreligious from one another. Of course, many people feel like they are married to (or living with) a soul mate who is closely bonded into an understanding symbiosis of two. About half the time, someone must be wrong in that belief because about half of all marriages (and more than that of live-in relationships) hit the rocks. Anita Shreve chooses an unusual way to display the reality of alienation, by having one spouse die while the other is presented with a mystery about what the other person was thinking and doing. Do spouses keep secrets from one another? Sure. In this case, the secrets undermine the sense of security that heroine Kathryn Lyons used to have in her marriage. The story opens with the kind of situation that Stephen King so likes to present, Kathryn is awakened by knocking on the door in the middle of the night while her husband is away flying commercially for a major airline. She reluctantly opens the door to be greeted by Robert Hart, from her husband's union, to tell her husband's plane has been lost. Within seconds, she is in the middle of a public relations maelstrom as the media begin their feeding frenzy to show the public horror-stricken grief. Kathryn has to remain strong; she still has a daughter at home to protect. As the nightmare becomes increasingly real, Ms. Shreve drops other nasty surprises into Kathryn's lap until she's so weighed down by the weight of adversity that she can barely move. Each time she thinks it is as bad as it can get, it gets worse. The plot in this story is quite strong, giving us a chance to get to know who Kathryn is. From that point of view, the book is very successful. Some will find the plot a little too fanciful to be credible. But I'm sure stranger things have happened. Ultimately, the book's weakness is that too much is predictable. A little more suspense would have been good. Try to avoid reading spoilers about the plot. They will reduce your pleasure in the book quite a lot. Those who like sensitive people will be pleased to see that Kathryn, her grandmother, and Robert Hart display that fine quality. I liked the reading by Mary Peiffer better than the book. I recommend you find this recording by Books on Tape if you can. Eine Rezension von Professor Donald Mitchell "Jesus Makes Me a P... > Thanks for Providing My Reviews over 100,000 Helpful Votes Globally vom 3. Januar 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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