A Stone Boat

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A finalist for the Los Angeles Times First Fiction prize, A Stone Boat is an achingly beautiful, deeply perceptive story of family, sexuality, and the startling changes wrought by grief, loss, and self discovery Harry, an internationally celebrated young concert pianist, travels to Paris to confront his glamorous and formidable mother about her dismay at his homosexuality Before he can give voice to his hurt and anger, he discovers that she is terminally ill In an attempt to escape his feelings of guilt and despair over the prospect of her death, he embarks on several intense affairs one with a longtime female friend that force him to question his capacity for love, and finally to rediscover it Part eulogy, part confession, and part soliloquy on forgiveness, A Stone Boat is a luminous evocation of the destructive and regenerative, all encompassing love between a son and his mother, by America s foremost chronicler of personal and familial resilience. Read A Stone Boat by Andrew Solomon – kino-fada.fr I came across A Stone Boat by accident, not realizing that Andrew Solomon had ever written a novel Solomon is a tremendously gifted writer who uses language in creative and unique ways It is what propelled me through Far From The Tree, which was a book of great breadth and sensitivity, and what kept me going with A Stone Boat By the first 30 or 40 pages I was thrilled, thinking I had found a book that was going to tell a moving story about a mother son relationship and about death and dying I came across A Stone Boat by accident, not realizing that Andrew Solomon had ever written a novel Solomon is a tremendously gifted writer who uses language in creative and unique ways It...A phenomenally well written meditation eulogy about the loss of a beloved mother Having lost my mother at a young age, I have not encountered until these pages a books dealing with loss as a young man in his twenties Though this is fiction the emotions and feelings evoked by Mr Solomon s writing are as real as any I have felt If tears are memories, this novel brought back memories of my mother, helped reconsider forgotten pieces in different lenses making themspecial and vibrant.An A phenomenally well written meditation eulogy about the loss of a beloved mother Having lost my mother at a young age, I have not encountered until these pages a books dealing with loss as a young man in his twenties Though this is fiction the emotions and feelin...i wish solomon would publisha stone boat is one of the best contemporary novels i ve ever read.This is the first book I have read by Andrew Solomon, and I will certainly readThis is an absorbing story of a young man s relationship with his mother, and the devastation wrought by her death Solomon writes beautifully and evocatively his descriptions of Harry s mother are particularly vivid, so that the story unfolds in front of you as if you are watching a film I only gave it five stars because towards the end I became a little impatient with all the introspective agonising and This is the first book I have read by Andrew Solomon, and I will certainly readThis is an absorbing story of a young man s relationship with his mother, and the devastation wrought by her death Solomon writes beautifully and evocatively his descriptions of Harry s mother are particularly vivid, so that the ...A Stone Boat deserves the four star rating I grappled giving it The challenge for me was the heavy reading that was outside my comfort zone An entire novel dealing primarily with the dying process of Harry s mother was not always comfortable However, it s power for me was that it made me reflect upon a time long ago when I had to deal with my mother s death Although we all go through intense emotions when enduring the dying process of a loved one, Harry s way of dealing felt overly A Stone Boat deserves the four star rating I grappled giving it The challenge for me was the heavy reading that was outside my comfort zone An entire novel dealing primarily with the dying process of Harry s mother was not always comfortable However, it s power for me was that it made me reflect upon a time long ago when I had to deal with my mother s death Although we all go through intense emotions when enduring the dying process of a loved one, Har...I picked this up for 1 in an op shop, and chose it purely because of The Noonday Demon, which is an amazing piece of work The first 20 or 30 pages were great, and I was really looking forward to seeing how the novel unfolded but it just didn t Maybe it s because Harry, as a character, is too affected, too introspective, too precious, and I just couldn t relate to him Maybe it s because the concept of a lifestyle that involves endless flights across the Atlantic, luxury laden holidays and I picked this up for 1 in an op shop, and chose it purely because of The Noonday Demon, which is an amazing piece of work The first 20 or 30 pages were great, and I was really looking forward to seeing how the novel unfolded but it just didn t Maybe it s because Harry, as a character, is t...I don t think I ve ever a read an emptier book on dying, death, and grief The characters are all deeply unlikeable, and not in an interesting way The writing is precious at best, and sloppy at worst I recall thinking that The Noonday Demon was a good book, so I thought I d give this novel a go One might think that an author who could write so compellingly about depression, might be able to manage a novel on death and dying A Stone Boat defies such an assumption...Oh curse my OCD that just won t allow me to walk away from a book mid read This book was not what I expected It was on a recommended reading list of an author who has two boys and chose a small, but broad variety of books to recommend to readers of Cookie magazine The book wasn t as much focused on the brotherly bond, as I was led to believe, but on how the mother s slow death of cancer affected her youngest son It was depressing A few nuggets here and there and my inability to abandon a Oh curse my OCD that just won t allow me to walk away from a book mid read This book was not what I expected It was on a recommended reading list of an author who has two boys and chose a small, but broad variety of books to recommend to readers of Cookie magazine The book wasn t...The story is written from the point of view of Harry, the son who was homosexual and wanted to confront his mother about it, only to learn instead that she was terminally ill From here starts the melodramatic narration of a wide set of emotions stirred when a loved one is lost I wanted to sympathize with Harry Really But i couldn t.It feltlike reading the ramblings of ...Exhausting but rewarding Ummm that is all.

A Stone Boat
  • English
  • 19 April 2018
  • Kindle Edition
  • Andrew Solomon
  • A Stone Boat