- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: Vintage Canada; 1st Vintage Canada ed edition (Jun 23 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0676971512
- ISBN-13: 978-0676971514
- Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 12.7 x 1.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 159 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #858,153 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Stunning.... de Vasconcelos has created some of the strongest and most complex female characters in contemporary Canadian fiction."—The Globe and Mail
"What is especially wonderful about My Darling Dead Ones is the abundance of life teeming through its pages: The Portuguese landscape of hilly, yellow-stuccoed houses is palpable; Magdelena's flat in Lisbon invites exploration of its quaint clutter; one sniffs the fresh scent of earth as Leninha creates a back room of hostas and calla lilies in her suburban Montreal garden. [Here] is a complex and sumptuous world.... There is much comfort and delight in My Darling Dead Ones."—Quill & Quire
"Magic.... Like Spanish writer Federico Garcia Lorca and Irish playwright John Millington Synge, de Vasconcelos understands the deep-rooted relationship between soil and soul.... Brilliant."—The Financial Post
"... emotionally engaging ... It's a book that distils authentic experience and peddles its feminism lightly. Women will enjoy it ... and men, too." —The Toronto Star
"De Vasconcelos has a lush and tantalizing way with a story: she foreshadows and backtracks, building up tension, then replaying events after the fact in the mind." —The Montreal Gazette
"[My Darling Dead Ones] has the intense and urgent cadence of a whispered confidence, and de Vasconcelos'flair for economical description is particularly potent in evoking the sights, sounds and smells of Portugal." —NOW Magazine
"... a compelling story of four strong, intelligent, passionate women... De Vasconcelos'writing style is effective and purposeful.... A lovely, ... even beautiful novel." —The Sherbrooke Record
"What is especially wonderful about My Darling Dead Ones is the abundance of life teeming through its pages: The Portuguese landscape of hilly, yellow-stuccoed houses is palpable; Magdelena's flat in Lisbon invites exploration of its quaint clutter; one sniffs the fresh scent of earth as Leninha creates a back room of hostas and calla lilies in her suburban Montreal garden. [Here] is a complex and sumptuous world.... There is much comfort and delight in My Darling Dead Ones."—Quill & Quire
"Magic.... Like Spanish writer Federico Garcia Lorca and Irish playwright John Millington Synge, de Vasconcelos understands the deep-rooted relationship between soil and soul.... Brilliant."—The Financial Post
"... emotionally engaging ... It's a book that distils authentic experience and peddles its feminism lightly. Women will enjoy it ... and men, too." —The Toronto Star
"De Vasconcelos has a lush and tantalizing way with a story: she foreshadows and backtracks, building up tension, then replaying events after the fact in the mind." —The Montreal Gazette
"[My Darling Dead Ones] has the intense and urgent cadence of a whispered confidence, and de Vasconcelos'flair for economical description is particularly potent in evoking the sights, sounds and smells of Portugal." —NOW Magazine
"... a compelling story of four strong, intelligent, passionate women... De Vasconcelos'writing style is effective and purposeful.... A lovely, ... even beautiful novel." —The Sherbrooke Record
Book Description
In this luminous first novel that sings into being a haunting story of women's lives, Erika de Vasconcelos follows the connections that remain when you move from a European past to a North American present, the emotional legacies you inherit, the bonds that hold or break.
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a mesmerizing read,
By errikka (ontario, canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: My Darling Dead Ones (Paperback)
When I read the last sentence of this amazing book I was almost disapointed. I had come to love the characters.This story is written in the most mesmerizing way. I often found myself reading some pages over and over again because they are written with such beauty. De Vasconcelos has written a marvel of a book. Everyone should own it
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A Powerful Woman's Story,
By James W. Fonseca - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: My Darling Dead Ones. (Paperback)
As I write this review, I am amazed I am only the second reader to review this work. This is a wonderful, powerful book that deserves a wide readership. It's a book about women and their personal and family issues: love, raising a family, births, deaths, abortion, adultery and affairs. Men, as the narrator notes of family photos, are largely absent. They are mentioned, especially in a chapter called "Rage," but the world of women largely revolves without them, not around them.The writing is at times intense, at times ironic, but always lively with many notable turns of phrase. This is also a book about Portuguese culture, or transplanted Portuguese culture and in that sense it is a kindred work to a growing body of truly excellent writing by Portuguese Americans and Portuguese Canadians (as is this author). Its personal intensity from a woman's perspective reminds me of Saudade by Katherine Vaz; it's homage to Portuguese ancestors reminds me of The Undiscovered Island (Portuguese in the Americas Series) by Darrell Kastin, and its matriarchic focus reminds me of Sue Fagalde Lick's Stories Grandma Never Told: Portuguese Women in California. The Portuguese flavor shows through directly in stories of the mythical Portuguese figures of Queens Isabella and Inez, and indirectly in many ways ranging from the irreligiousity of the women (Portugal has one of the lowest church-going rates in Europe) to wanting multi-colored lights on Christmas trees. (My non-Portuguese wife insists on monochrome too.)
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a mesmerizing read,
By errikka - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: My Darling Dead Ones (Paperback)
When I read the last sentence of this amazing book I was almost disapointed. I had come to love the characters.This story is written in the most mesmerizing way. I often found myself reading some pages over and over again because they are written with such beauty. De Vasconcelos has written a marvel of a book. Everyone should own it |
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