Sarah Radzi từ Ickham, Canterbury, Kent , UK

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11/06/2024

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2019-08-10 00:31

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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: KS. Nguyễn Nam Thuận

This is Ross Macdonald's final novel, and the last in the series of Lew Archer mysteries. It is a very good novel, animated by the usual Macdonald themes, and marks a fitting end to a life of literary achievement. Detective Lew Archer is hired by Ruth Beimeyer for what seems like a routine job: to find a stolen painting. But Lew soon finds out it is not as simple as it seems. What is the connection between Mrs. Biemeyer and the artist Richard Chantry? Why is Mr. Biedermeyer so angry, and why is their daughter Doris so sad and lost? Is her art student boyfriend Fred a thief or merely a troubled boy fascinated by a stolen portrait? Who is the woman in the picture anyway? And what does this have to do with the disappearance of the painter twenty years ago? The answers to these questions will be uncovered in time, but not before the sins, crimes and deceptions that were buried a generation ago are unearthed as well. And, as usual, Lew does his best to look after the suffering young people: Doris and Fred, lovers too young for the ancient guilt that is destroying their lives. This book—like all the Archer books—is well written, but it seems to me its style is more discursive, its metaphors less pointed, than usual. Certain readers on The Blue Hammer's first publication saw this as an interesting stylistic development, but in retrospect I am afraid it is rather the first faint signs of the effects of Alzheimer's, a disease that would prevent Macdonald from publishing any more novels. What a shame! For Macdonald was planning—or perhaps just dreaming—a novel in which Lew Archer would explore the secrets of his own history. What a treat that would have been! On the other hand, perhaps it's best that this final novel was never written. Archer is a hero, and—as with the heroes of Greek mythology whose ghosts populate Macdonald's landscapes—sometimes the gods decree it is best for a hero's origins not to be revealed.

Người đọc Sarah Radzi từ Ickham, Canterbury, Kent , UK

Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.