The White Rose
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.53 (794 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1478959193 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 1 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-15 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Married, wealthy, and the famed discoverer of eighteenth-century adventuress Lady Charlotte Wilcox, she ought to be content. Instead, she is horrified to find herself profoundly in love with twenty-six-year-old Oliver, the son of her eldest friend. From the West Village to the Upper East Side, from the Hamptons to Millbrook, The White Rose is at once a nuanced and affectionate reimagining of Strauss' beloved opera Der Rosenkavalier and a mesmerizing novel of our own time and place.. All three of them will learn that love may seldom be straightforward, but it's always a gift. When Marian's snobbish cousin Barton announces his engagement to Sophie, a graduate student in Marian's department, Marian, Oliver, and Sophie find their lives woefully entangled and their hearts turned in unfamiliar directions. At forty-eight, Marian Kahn, a professor of history at Columbia University, has reached a comfortable perch. Read by Eliza Foss Passion, infidelity, social climbing, and one very special white rose weave a seductive narrative in this intelligent and tender novel
A perfect bloom! THE WHITE ROSE is everything a novel should be. This is a beautifully written book, and author Jean Hanff Korelitz is to be congratulated.The story is rich and complex. There are a variety of plots and subplots, each of which is compelling enough to be the center of its own novel.The story gets off to a slow start, which serves neither the author nor her readers well. Yet once one immerses oneself in these characters, THE WHITE ROSE is touching a. "a romantic comedy you can feel good about loving" according to Meg Cox. This book is a breezy, fun read but it also makes you think. There are elements of social comedy and farce, as well as delicious accounts of sex. It's a very hopeful book that cheers for its middle-aged heroine without bashing men. It's a book where (almost) all the characters grow from and are strengthened by the ordeals they endure. There is history here, and scholarship, and a social conscious, but mostly it's just a fun romp.. I like this book a lot As far as I'm concerned, there's only one thing wrong with it. The story of the protagaonist, a middle-aged woman, and her affair with the young man is at the center of the book and that's fine, and it was interesting--but there are other relationships I was interested in that never made it to the surface, or hardly did. Still, even saying that, I liked this better than almost anything else I've read lately, and I'm going to look for her other bo
Sophie is swept away, too, by the knowledge that she may want something more out of life than the academic satisfaction she derives from the study of her own White Rose, a group of German dissidents who agitated against the Nazis. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Marian Kahn, gracefully aging at 48, is a respected history professor at Columbia, author of a bestselling book of popular history and solidly ensconced in a satisfactory if not brilliant marriage when suddenly she's swept away by the wild but dangerous joy of an affair with the son of he