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* Read * Circling the Sun: A Novel (Random House Large Print) by Paula McLain ✓ eBook or Kindle ePUB. Circling the Sun: A Novel (Random House Large Print) A wonderful portrait of a complex woman who lived—defiantly—on her own terms.”—People (Book of the Week)“Circling the Sun soars.”—Newsday“Captivating an irresistible novel.”—The Seattle Times“Like its high-flying subject, Circling theSun is audacious and glamorous and hard not to be drawn in by. The intensity of their love reveals Beryl’s truest self and her fate
| Title | : | Circling the Sun: A Novel (Random House Large Print) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.66 (844 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0804194920 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 512 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-03 |
| Language | : | English |
Beryl Markham, horse trainer/pilot, and rival for Out of Africa's Denys Finch Hatton Tracy Marks How do you evaluate a novel which is well-written, which convincingly portrays a remarkable real life heroine and her milieu, with believable dialogue, yet at the same time presents that heroine as unlikeable, and callous in personal relationships? And what if the other characters in the novel are one-dimensional? Such is my dilemma reviewing CIRCLING THE SUN. For the above reasons, my reaction to Paula McLain's latest novel is mixed.A few years earlier, I had read THE . "Stayed up all night to finish it. Well written story about a fascinating character." according to pebbles. (no spoilers) This first thing to remember about this book is that it is classified by its author as "historical fiction." I tried to keep this in mind while reading, but found it hard and distracting to try to figure out what was factual and what was not. Maybe not a great way to read this. I'm a big fan of Isak Dinesen's (Karen Blixen) writing and her story. I have read several books by her about her life and also Denys's. So I was naturally intrigued by this book sin. Sure to be a New York Times Bestseller! - No Spoilers - Tell Me A Story Paula McLain has written another smash hit! "Circling the Sun" is an exquisite foray into historical fiction, engrossing the reader from the first sentence. Between the covers is the life story of Beryl Markham, a woman of remarkable and numerous accomplishments in the early 20th Century, which include being a female landowner (rare) and horse trainer of champion racers in Kenya (also unique), and author. She later becomes the first woman to fly cross the Atlantic from
Like privileged but love-hungry teenage girls past and future, Beryl seeks companionship from her horses, becoming the first and greatest female horse trainer in the region. But McLain doesn’t seem interested in portraying her as a trailblazing feminist with an idea about changing the world; the Beryl Markham here is noteworthy precisely because she is NOT those things so much as a girl who grew up pushing back against conventions that got in her way. An Best Book of July 2015: Sometimes a reader craves a good, old-fashioned yarn. Those who knew about Markham before reading this book may be surprised by how little there is about her as a pilot. When Beryl’s mother leaves the family and her father gives up the farm,
A wonderful portrait of a complex woman who lived—defiantly—on her own terms.”—People (Book of the Week)“Circling the Sun soars.”—Newsday“Captivating an irresistible novel.”—The Seattle Times“Like its high-flying subject, Circling theSun is audacious and glamorous and hard not to be drawn in by. The intensity of their love reveals Beryl’s truest self and her fate: to fly.Set against the majestic landscape of early-twentieth-century Africa, McLain’s powerful tale reveals the extraordinary adventures of a woman before her time, the exhilaration of freedom and its cost, and the tenacity of the human spirit.Praise for Circling the Sun“In McLain’s confident hands, Beryl Markham crackles to life, and we readers truly understand what made a woman so far ahead of her time believe she had the power to soar.”—Jodi Picoult, author of Leaving Time“Enchanting a worthy heir to Isak Dinesen Like Africa as it’s so gorgeously depicted here, this novel will never let you go.”—The Boston Globe“Famed aviator Beryl Markham is a novelist’s dream. But even the wild child must grow up, and when everything Beryl knows and trusts dissolves, she is catapulted into a string of disastrous relationships.Beryl forges her own path as a horse trainer, a
She has received fellowships from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Paula McLain is the author of the novels The Paris Wife and A Ticket to Ride, the memoir Like Family: Growing Up in Other People’s Houses, andtwo collections of poetry. She lives in Cleveland with her family.
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