Título: A Year and a Day: A Novel
Autor: Leslie Pietrzyk
Sinopse: Fifteen-year-old Alice dreams of her first kiss, goes to sleepovers, makes prank calls, auditions for Our Town, and tries to pass high school biology. It's 1975, and at first look her life would seem to be normal ... and unexceptional. But in the world that "genuine and fully developed talent" (Washington Post) Leslie Pietrzyk paints, every moment she chronicles is revealed through the kaleidoscope of loss, stained by the fact that Alice's mother, Annette, without warning, apology, explanation, or note, deliberately parks her car on the railroad tracks, in the path of an oncoming train.In the emotional year that follows, Alice and her older brother find themselves in the care of their great-aunt, forced to cope and move forward after their catastrophic loss. Lonely and confused, Alice absorbs herself in her mother's familiar rituals, trying to recapture their connection -- only to be stunned by the sound of her mother's voice speaking to her clear as day as she flips Sunday-morning pancakes. Driven to understand who her mother was, Alice distances herself from her girlfriends and brother as she engages in "conversations" with Annette. As Alice works through her grief, she slowly begins to see Annette as an individual -- separate from simply "my mother" -- and ultimately embraces the bittersweet knowledge that the lives to which we are most intimately connected often remain the most mysterious of all.Taking its title from the pop-psychology idea that it should only take a year to get over the death of a loved one, A Year and a Day is an intense and deeply affecting portrait of how the human heart counters tragedy and can spin hard-won triumph out of the deepest despair. A redemptive, often humorous meditation on growing up and growing into oneself, this is an intimate and heartwarming novel to curl up with and savor.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “A Year and a Day: A Novel”, de Leslie Pietrzyk, publicado pela editora William Morrow, em 2004 e com 368 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: William Morrow
Páginas: 368
Ano: 2004
Edição: 1
Linguagem: pt_BR
ISBN: 9780060554651
ISBN13: 9780060554651
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora William Morrow costumam oferecer narrativas densas e envolventes que transitam entre dramas familiares de várias gerações e histórias pessoais marcadas por conflitos morais. Muitas obras apresentam um ritmo que mescla suspense e emoção, explorando temas como identidade, segredos do passado e relações complexas, frequentemente ambientadas em cenários históricos ou contemporâneos com forte carga emocional. O catálogo sugere uma predileção por personagens femininas em jornadas de autodescoberta, além de um equilíbrio entre histórias mais narrativas e outras que aprofundam questões sociais e históricas, criando uma experiência de leitura rica e multifacetada.
