Anywhere but here

Zusatztext "Brilliant! funny! astonishing." — The New York Times Book Review "Stunning . . . Simpson takes on—and reinvents—many of America's essential myths." — The New York Times "Mona Simpson writes with confidence! with a swagger. She is already a master." —Anne Tyler! USA Today " Anywhere But Here  is a wonder: big! complex! masterfully written! it's an achievement that lands [Simpson] in the front ranks of our best novelists." — Newsweek "The two women in this book are American originals. Ann is a new Huck Finn! a tough! funny! resourceful love of a girl. Adele is like no one I've encountered! at once deplorable and admirable—and altogether believable." —Walker Percy Informationen zum Autor Mona Simpson Klappentext A national bestseller-adapted into a movie starring Natalie Portman and Susan Sarandon-Anywhere But Here is the heart-rending tale of a mother and daughter. A moving, often comic portrait of wise child Ann August and her mother, Adele, a larger-than-life American dreamer, the novel follows the two women as they travel through the landscape of their often conflicting ambitions. A brilliant exploration of the perennial urge to keep moving, even at the risk of profound disorientation, Anywhere But Here is a story about the things we do for love, and a powerful study of familial bonds. Leseprobe We fought.  When my mother and I crossed state lines in the car, I'd sit against the window and wouldn't talk. I wouldn't even look at her. The fights came when I thought she broke a promise. She said there'd be an Indian reservation. She said that we'd see buffalo in Texas. My mother said a lot of things. We were driving from Bay City, Wisconsin, to California, so I could be a child star while I was still a child. "Talk to me," my mother would say. "If you're upset, tell me." But I wouldn't. I knew how to make her suffer. I was mad. I was mad about a lot of things. Places she said would be there, weren't. We were running away from family. We'd left home. Then my mother would pull to the side of the road and reach over and open my door. "Get out, then," she'd say, pushing me. I got out. It was always a shock the first minute because nothing outside was bad. The fields were bright. It never happened on a bad day. The western sky went on forever, there were a few clouds. A warm breeze came up and tangled around my legs. The road was dull as a nickel. I stood there at first amazed that there was nothing horrible in the landscape. But then the wheels of the familiar white Continental turned, a spit of gravel hit my shoes and my mother's car drove away. When it was nothing but a dot in the distance, I started to cry. I lost time then; I don't know if it was minutes or if it was more. There was nothing to think because there was nothing to do. First, I saw small things. The blades of grass. Their rough side, their smooth, waxy side. Brown grasshoppers. A dazzle of California  poppies. I'd look at everything around me. In yellow fields, the tops of weeds bent under visible waves of wind. There was a high steady note of insects screaking. A rich odor of hay mixed with the heady smell of gasoline. Two or three times, a car rumbled by, shaking the ground. Dry weeds by the side of the road seemed almost transparent in the even sun. I tried hard but I couldn't learn anything. The scenery all went strange, like a picture on a high billboard. The fields, the clouds, the sky; none of it helped because it had nothing to do with me. My mother must have watched in her rearview mirror. My arms crossed over my chest, I would have looked smaller and more solid in the distance. That was what she couldn't stand, my stub-bornness. She'd had a stubborn husband. She wasn't going to have a stubborn child. But when she couldn't see me anymore, she gave up and turned around and ...

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• Autori: Mona Simpson
• Editore: Vintage USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 15.01.1992
• EAN: 9780679737384
• ISBN: 978-0-679-73738-4
• Pagine: 544
• Dimensioni: 132 mm x 204 mm x 25 mm
• Serie: Vintage Contemporaries; Vintage Contemporaries
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi