Writers & Lovers: Lily King

Writers & Lovers: Lily King

Taschenbuch
4.03

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Beschreibung

Casey has ended up back in Massachusetts after a devastating love affair. Her mother has just died and she is knocked sideways by grief and loneliness, moving between the restaurant where she waitresses for the Harvard elite and the rented shed she calls home. Her one constant is the novel she has been writing for six years, but at thirty-one she is in debt and directionless, and feels too old to be that way - it’s strange, not be the youngest kind of adult anymore.

And then, one evening, she meets Silas. He is kind, handsome, interested. But only a few weeks later, Oscar walks into her restaurant, his two boys in tow. He is older, grieving the loss of his wife, and wrapped up in his own creativity. Suddenly Casey finds herself at the point of a love triangle, stuck between two very different relationships that promise two very different futures.

Lily King's Writers & Lovers follows Casey in the last days of a long youth, a time when everything - her family, her work, her relationships - comes to a crisis. Hugely moving and impossibly funny, it is a transfixing novel that explores the terrifying and exhilarating leap between the end of one phase of life and the beginning of another. It is a novel about love and creativity, and ultimately it captures the moment when a woman becomes an artist.
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Taschenbuch
Seitenzahl
256
Preis
13.99 €

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4

I flew through it AND LOVE LOVE LOVED IT!

3

3.5✨ - Mir hat das Buch gefallen, allerdings hatte ich mir mehr erhofft… Lily King ist es wirklich gut gelungen, eine realistische bzw. authentische Geschichte zu schreiben, die so wirkt, als wäre sie direkt aus dem Leben gegriffen. Man begleitet Casey bei ihrem stressigen Alltag, ihrer Arbeit im Restaurant und durchlebt ihre Sorgen: Schulden, fehlende Krankenversicherung, Perspektivlosigkeit, Trauer. Die Story erzählt die Wirklichkeit auf so ehrliche Weise, dass es manchmal, trotz der Ernsthaftigkeit, sogar witzig war! Dennoch konnte mich das Buch nicht ganz abholen, da mir vor allem bei der Liebesgeschichte die Emotionen gefehlt haben.

5

THIS BOOK, you guys. i loved it so much. the story of casey, a struggling writer who falls in love and experiences loss and is trying to get her life together somehow was the best thing i've read in a really really long time. it felt like it was written just for me. what i loved most about this book: * it's a story about an artist, about a woman with a passion who loves what she does even when it's hard * it's a beautiful coming of age-narrative about a woman finding & creating her space in the world. * there's lots of romance but also a strong focus on friendship. * it tells you that it's not too late to live the life you want; you don't have to have everything figured out by the time your 20s are over. good things take time. * plus, the last sentence made me tear up a bit. then i flipped the page to the drawing of the little geese and started full on CRYING.

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