Книга "The Cattleman's English Rose" - это исторический роман, написанный автором Диной Рид. Она рассказывает историю Адама Харпера, богатого австралийского скотовода, который встречает молодую англичанку по имени Клэр Рид. Они влюбляются друг в друга, несмотря на противоположные характеры и разные жизненные пути. Когда Адам предлагает Клэр выйти за него замуж и переехать в Австралию, она соглашается, не зная, на что именно она подписывается. В Австралии Клэр сталкивается с новыми трудностями и испытывает сильное чувство одиночества, но в итоге она находит свое место в жизни и находит настоящую любовь в объятиях Адама. Книга наполнена романтикой, приключениями и историческими деталями, которые описывают жизнь в Австралии и Англии в конце XIX века.
Леди Фрэнсис Даркембрук приглашена в поместье Барнетт пожить, чтобы обдумать свой брак с расточительным и нелюбимым Ричардом Барнеттом. С собой она берет свою служанку Джойс. Фрнсис знакомится с Эмброузом Барнеттом, хозяином поместья, чье увлечение разводит англиканские розы. Она понимает, что влюблена, и первоначальная враждебность к ней и ее любви уступает место пониманию, поскольку не остается половинчатым. А весь сюжет - романтическая история с препятствиями, как водится, связанными со страстями и интригами.
Barbara Hannay's novel is a tale about the dysfunctional relationships between ranchers and their cattle, but focuses on the ramifications that these conflicts have on the relationships between the people with whom the cattle are kept. The characters struggle constantly with greed and pride, and yet wonder if the love and sacrifice necessary for parenthood will flourish.\nWhile it may not be as clearly fatalistic as many other Texas Westerns, the depiction of tragedy in relationship to characters taking up residence on a hostile but beautiful landscape is significant in itself. This is not a book of happy endings; there are no convenient resolutions for any of the numerous tragedies which beset its characters. Rather, Hannay works extensively with symbolism (including storms, nightmares, mutilation, natural death, insanity, violence, and childlessness) to longitudinalize the temporary nature of human relationships and compel the reader to grapple with the implications of cyclical and seemingly inevitable conflict upon the lives of these families. In spite of the significance of previously separated couples reuniting in closing sections, this is a novel that truly is about changes in individual thought processes only realised after firm conclusions are drawn upon the deaths of loved ones or upon irreversible emotional discontinuity.\nThis work presents the shift in perspective right from the opening sentence, as the narration becomes more fragmented, more cinematic in imagery and suggesting morbidity throughout, while it simultaneously becomes the warm romance, metabiological, feminist critique of sublime experienced through livestock and stability as equally frail as Western kinship, fostered over generations.\nBut like any tractor mounted soul searcher, it requires commitment to keep digging until one realizes - Westbound, comes Eastward.\nIt's also a novel constructed sparingly for the most part; the fluid temporalities, inexorable second threads of character and thematic development, and inescapable never-ending images, shrapnel, cow pooping, interminable murky hiding places provide an atmosphere of thickery doubtfulness, a disorienting ambience equally at home in diverse cultures devoid of political change and carnal medicine, and the disenchanted and halting developments of pure chance and topography mirroring vast spaces of love, hate, devotion, animosity, desperation, tranquillity, cruelty, malice, solitude, corruption between present and past, remembering and forgetting, addiction and abandonment.\nA book without answers is better suited than many others to match the transient reality of our alternate social ties, modern media, global parameters, cornucopian confusions, fast-spreading unsettlements.\nA crop of circles isn't so much about fate caught in the throes of fall (or dissolution) as it is about the rituals utilized by battered states under continuous threat, maintaining their highest aspirations but sorely in need of a change of perspective, of being reconnected to the less mathematically irrefutable existence of iron-bound stages, virtues, milieux, traditions.\nAnd their enemies, too, do not carry signals of imminent persuasion.\nThey simply +dance+ and we must outpace the hell of their relentless circle, every twist and turn a nothingness, with neither partner, no dance, no hijinks, no handkerchiefs prepared nor heart beating louder.\n"The Cattleman\'s English Rose" can only be read judiciously, as a purely textualizing reading experience, where each word becomes both static and barbed, snuck through wild brambles to fly off into nostalgia seeking the needle in a haystack of stories passed down and chosen over the years.\nIn it, historical depth is found not on geographic lines, but rather sedimentations of sentimentality intertwined with profane legacies, both deceptively fictionalized and rooted in real truth; as letters, rhymes, journals, memoirs are all called upon as vital entities demanded to ward off the madness of heteronyms, truncations, obfuscations, shortcomings, deceptions as seen since the dawn of man walking towards the sun.
Электронная Книга «The Cattleman's English Rose» написана автором Barbara Hannay в году.
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Язык: Английский
ISBN: 9781474014670
