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>>Kann man seine Mutter wirklich kennen? Norah blickt zurück auf das Leben ihrer Mutter, der einst gefeierten Schauspielerin Katherine O’Dell, die es von den irischen Dorfbühnen bis nach Hollywood geschafft hat. Doch mit zunehmendem Alter verblasste ihr Stern, sie betäubte sich mit Alkohol und Tabletten, bis es eines Tages zu einem bizarren Skandal kam ...<< „Die Schauspielerin“ von Anne Enright ist ein Roman, der die Beziehung zwischen Mutter und Tochter auf verschiedensten Ebenen zeigt und die Schattenseiten der Berühmtheit zum Vorschein bringt. Es ist, wie man so schön sagt eben nicht alles Gold was glänzt. Neben sicher bewegenden, schockierenden und diversen Situationen die zu denken geben, konnte mich dieses Buch leider so gar nicht packen. Anne Enright's Schreibstil ist absolut gut, die Geschichte an sich interessant, aber mich konnte es auf der emotionalen Ebene einfach nicht recht abholen. Auch konnte ich hier mit den Protagonisten eher weniger anfangen. Fazit: Für mich persönlich war es irgendwie nicht das, was ich mir gewünscht hätte. Ich bin mir aber sicher, dass die doch auch spezielle Art von Anne Enright eine Geschichte zu erzählen einige Leser sehr begeistern wird!
I was hoping for something in the vein of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and this kinda managed to scratch that itch but as a more literary version with a more old-fashioned philosophy in the narration and some side tangents. The actual story of the actress, Katherine O´Dell, was absolutely fascinating and exactly what I was looking for, both as a fictional biography and as a character study, but while her daughter Nora was an important part of that, telling the story and adding to it as a central character of Katherine´s life, I didn’t care for the parts that were purely about her. I found it hard to relate to her world view and some of the lines were just incredible pretentious, which was made easier to endure due to the audio book narration by the author herself, which was marvelous and made that stuff almost feel natural. The real problem, however, is that Nora´s bigger parts are mostly unrelated side tangents and at one point 1h of the audio book was just dedicated to Nora not really reacting to The Troubles and describing her future husband in a way that made me dislike him. Apart from these segments, I really enjoyed the book. The characters were both really easy to picture and clouded in mystery at the same time. They seemed like memorable personalities and the way they were described made me feel transported back in time. The story isn’t always told chronologically, which worked great to create suspense and felt like you were really in Nora´s head as she remembers it. I just think Enright could have gone even deeper into the relationship of Nora and Katherine. There is definitely something there, especially regarding how Nora viewed her mother, but it seemed quite complex and going deeper into that would have been worth more than the present-day segments. It´s definitely easier to recommend this to people who read a lot of literary fiction and memoirs than to fans of Taylor Jenkins Reid and straight-forwards story-focused novels.
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>>Kann man seine Mutter wirklich kennen? Norah blickt zurück auf das Leben ihrer Mutter, der einst gefeierten Schauspielerin Katherine O’Dell, die es von den irischen Dorfbühnen bis nach Hollywood geschafft hat. Doch mit zunehmendem Alter verblasste ihr Stern, sie betäubte sich mit Alkohol und Tabletten, bis es eines Tages zu einem bizarren Skandal kam ...<< „Die Schauspielerin“ von Anne Enright ist ein Roman, der die Beziehung zwischen Mutter und Tochter auf verschiedensten Ebenen zeigt und die Schattenseiten der Berühmtheit zum Vorschein bringt. Es ist, wie man so schön sagt eben nicht alles Gold was glänzt. Neben sicher bewegenden, schockierenden und diversen Situationen die zu denken geben, konnte mich dieses Buch leider so gar nicht packen. Anne Enright's Schreibstil ist absolut gut, die Geschichte an sich interessant, aber mich konnte es auf der emotionalen Ebene einfach nicht recht abholen. Auch konnte ich hier mit den Protagonisten eher weniger anfangen. Fazit: Für mich persönlich war es irgendwie nicht das, was ich mir gewünscht hätte. Ich bin mir aber sicher, dass die doch auch spezielle Art von Anne Enright eine Geschichte zu erzählen einige Leser sehr begeistern wird!
I was hoping for something in the vein of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and this kinda managed to scratch that itch but as a more literary version with a more old-fashioned philosophy in the narration and some side tangents. The actual story of the actress, Katherine O´Dell, was absolutely fascinating and exactly what I was looking for, both as a fictional biography and as a character study, but while her daughter Nora was an important part of that, telling the story and adding to it as a central character of Katherine´s life, I didn’t care for the parts that were purely about her. I found it hard to relate to her world view and some of the lines were just incredible pretentious, which was made easier to endure due to the audio book narration by the author herself, which was marvelous and made that stuff almost feel natural. The real problem, however, is that Nora´s bigger parts are mostly unrelated side tangents and at one point 1h of the audio book was just dedicated to Nora not really reacting to The Troubles and describing her future husband in a way that made me dislike him. Apart from these segments, I really enjoyed the book. The characters were both really easy to picture and clouded in mystery at the same time. They seemed like memorable personalities and the way they were described made me feel transported back in time. The story isn’t always told chronologically, which worked great to create suspense and felt like you were really in Nora´s head as she remembers it. I just think Enright could have gone even deeper into the relationship of Nora and Katherine. There is definitely something there, especially regarding how Nora viewed her mother, but it seemed quite complex and going deeper into that would have been worth more than the present-day segments. It´s definitely easier to recommend this to people who read a lot of literary fiction and memoirs than to fans of Taylor Jenkins Reid and straight-forwards story-focused novels.