Winslow in Love
by Kevin Canty
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Richard Winslow is in a rut. His marriage is over and he is alone, teaching poetry as a visiting professor in Montana and continuing to avoid actually writing himself. He drinks to oblivion every night. At this freezing college, in the dead of winter, Winslow meets Erika, one of his poetry students. What begins with office hours and Jim Beam in paper cups becomes a road trip as they travel through Utah and Arizona. Long haunted by thoughts of death, both Erika and Winslow begin to glimpse show more the power life can hold if they will only open up to the shame, beauty, and heartbreak of it all. show lessTags
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A slightly unpleasant novel about a middle-aged poet past his creative prime who takes a visiting professorship. When he becomes close to a troubled student in the class, Erica, the novel walks a thin line between Winslow's concern for her well-being and his earthy appetites, usually coming down on the darker side. Not badly written, but Winslow is a distasteful specimen who is usually unable to place the needs of his students, particularly Erica, above his own.
Arme Winslow; dat je vaak als onsympathiek beschreven wordt begrijp ik niet. We zijn allemaal Winslows. En wat zijn er mooie vergelijkingen te vinden, zoals "stuifsneeuw die een geluid maakt tegen het raam als duizenden insectenvleugels". Erika is wél ergerlijk, ook al is ze ziek. Maar ze verandert ten goede door die onmogelijke liefde. Dit is een heel positief boek over menselijke mensen.
Jan 29, 2010Dutch
Het leven van Winslow zit er niet fraai uit: hij is dichter, maar heeft al een tijd lang niets geschreven en is bekender om een roman die hij al weer jaren geleden schreef. Winslows huwelijk met zijn jongere vrouw is min of meer voorbij. Hij drinkt en rookt te veel, is te dik en niet gezond en hij heeft dringend behoefte aan geld.
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Dec 30, 2009Dutch
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- Original publication date
- 2005 (American ed.) (American ed.)
- Dedication*
- for Denise Shannon
- First words*
- The rain fell on downtown Portland, not in any kind of unusual way.
- Last words*
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)But that's what it feels like in these soft, sunny California afternoons: it feels like she's gathering the strands of the day, trying to remember what happened and why it was important, what she did and what she saw and what she felt; and, gathering the strands, she begins to work them together into a single thing, a thing made out of words, and every one of them begins the same: Dear Richard.
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Romance
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PS3553 .A56 .W56 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1961-
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