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Cuando Eramos Mayores = Back When We Were Grownups - Anne Tyler, Maria Jose Garcia Ripoll
Cuando Eramos Mayores = Back When We Were Grownups
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Rebecca discovers she has turned into the wrong person. At age 53, she realizes that she needs to gain ownership of her future regardless of what her family thinks. She goes back to school, joins a gym, and decides to open doors from her past that she thought she had forever closed. In this... show more
Rebecca discovers she has turned into the wrong person. At age 53, she realizes that she needs to gain ownership of her future regardless of what her family thinks. She goes back to school, joins a gym, and decides to open doors from her past that she thought she had forever closed. In this novel, Tyler speaks about the value of memories and the immense courage it takes to re-write a life. Description in spanish: Aunque las patas de gallo ya crezcan junto a sus hermosos ojos, aunque decenas de familiares -hijas, hijastras, nietos y tíos- aseguren que ya no queda tiempo para emprender un nuevo camino, Rebecca se resiste a convertirse para siempre en una persona que no es ella. Ya no le basta con reinventar la cocina tradicional en su salón de banquetes o cuidar de niños que nunca la llamarán abuela. Rebecca necesita adueñarse de su futuro. Y retoma los estudios que abandonó el día de su matrimonio, se apunta a un gimnasio, compra ropa interior de seda, se atreve a descolgar el teléfono y a marcar un número que creía olvidado. Anne Tyler, ganadora del Premio Pulitzer y legítima heredera de la gran tradición de narradores sureños norteamericanos, nos habla en esta novela sobre el valor de los recuerdos y el inmenso coraje que se precisa para volver a escribir toda una vida.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9788420464428 (8420464422)
Publisher: Aguilar
Pages no: 362
Edition language: Spanish
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Tolle Lege!.
Tolle Lege!. rated it
5.0 Back When We Were Grownups (Audio)
I very rarely ever re-listen to a fiction book. My only exception so far have been this book and another Anne Tyler book, "The Accidental Tourist".Really good fiction makes one see beyond the plot and allows one to feel the meaning of a universal truth. Everyone needs to understand fiction for thems...
shannonland
shannonland rated it
I didn't connect well with the main character in this book. It could be that I read in my early twenties and so many things just didn't translate. I would maybe have a different view about it now that I'm older, I've been married for years and now have a child. Not sure. It was just OK for me althou...
Mellkoh
Mellkoh rated it
4.0 Back When We Were Grownups
I am over 40 and female. I believe this has a lot to do with the reasons why I liked this book so much. A lot of reviewers felt this book somehow missed the mark, not living up to its potential. That to me though, is the essence of the book.There comes a point in our lives when we wonder what wou...
Carolyn Cannot Live Without Books!
Carolyn Cannot Live Without Books! rated it
4.0
Wonderful book. Rebecca (Beck by family who don't care that she doesn't like that name) marries an older man that already has 3 kids when she's 20. 6 years later he dies in a car accident and she has to raise the 3 girls plus the one they had, take care of his mother and great uncle and take over ...
sarah
sarah rated it
2.0 Anne Tyler: Back When We Were Grownups
Just didn't do it for me. I wanted to like Rebecca, I was really pulling for her, but she just never got interesting enough for me. The other characters ranged from interesting but underdeveloped (Zeb, her step-grandson Peter) to annoying (Patch, Barry, NoNo, Rebecca's mother, Aunt Ida, Min Foo, Bid...
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