Landing
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.25 (639 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0151012970 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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Deborah Peifer said welcome back to the present. As much as I thoroughly enjoyed Emma Donoghue's historical novels Slammerkin and Life Mask, I'll confess to a longing for her to turn her extraordinary novelist's eye to a contemporary topic. Landing fulfills that wish and a great deal more. This is a story that could only take place in the time of easy international travel, email, and long-distance telephone. And yet, the. Sifter said One continuous read. I have only read "Stirfry" of Emma donoghue earlier, and though i liked it, it was difficult to understand on the first go, but i have come to like it.Reading a lot of reviews that she only mostly writes historical novels, i could not bring myself to try another one.But i read a few pages of "Landing" and was hooked enough to buy it and finished it in one go. She is one of. and I'm not a dumb person. Not nearly as interesting as Room This book was written in a British dialect that was very hard to understand if you're American. I didn't finish reading it because it was a chore to comprehend, and I'm not a dumb person. Not nearly as interesting as Room.
Told through the eyes of Sile O'Shaughnessy, a cosmopolitan Irish flight attendant, and Jude Turner, a sheltered museum archivist from Ireland, Ontario, Landing is a touching, if not somewhat repetitive exploration of what we are, and are not, willing to give up for love. From the moment Jude and Sile first meet aboard a transatlantic flight, the chemistry between them is undeniable. Donoghue is skilled at brining out the humanity in each woman, so the sacrifices they both must make to keep their relationship alive never seem forced. What follows is a long-distance exchange of passionate e-mails, letters, phone calls, and visits, most of which leave Sile and Jude feeling both exhilarated and despondent after each goodbye. Acclaimed Irish author Emma Donoghue's fifth novel, Landing
Jude is a twenty-five-year-old archivist, stubbornly attached to the tiny town of Ireland, Ontario, in which she was born and raised. A delightful, old-fashioned love story with a uniquely twenty-first-century twist, Landing is a romantic comedy that explores the pleasures and sorrows of long-distance relationships—the kind millions of us now maintain mostly by plane, phone, and Internet. In the course of the next year, their lives, and those of their friends and families, will be drawn into a new, shaky orbit. This sparkling, lively story explores age-old questions: Does where you live matter more than who you live with? What would you give up for love, and would you be a fool to do so?. On her first plane trip, Jude’s and Síle’s worlds touch and snag at Heathrow Airport. Síle is a stylish citizen of the new Dublin, a veteran flight attendant who’s traveled the world