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In late September 1874, Margaret Prior makes her way through the pentagons of London's Millbank Prison, a place of fearful symmetry and endless corridors. This plain woman on the verge of 30 has come to comfort those behind bars, several of whom Waters brings to instant, sad life. And our Lady Visitor plans to take her role dead seriously, having recovered from two years of nervous indolence in her family's Chelsea house. One person, however, makes her job a passion. Opening an inspection slit (or "eye" as these devices are known), Margaret hears "a perfect sigh, like a sigh in a story." Peering inward, she's confronted by the most erotic of visions--a woman turned toward the sun, caressing her cheek with a forbidden violet: "As I watched, she put the flower to her lips, and breathed upon it, and the purple of the petals gave a quiver and seemed to glow..."
Selina Dawes may indeed have the face of a Crivelli angel, but this medium is in for fraud and assault, her last session having gone very badly indeed. Suffice it to say that the first full encounter between these two very different women is enthralling. "You think spiritualism a kind of fancy," Selina riddles. "Doesn't it seem to you, now you are here, that anything might be real, since Millbank is?" And soon enough Margaret receives several viable signs of the supernatural: a locket disappears from her room, flowers mysteriously appear, and her dazzling friend knows everything about her. Strangest of all, Selina seems to love her.
As Margaret records her weekly prison forays, her own past comes into focus, notably her plans to travel to Italy with her first love (who is now her sister-in-law). But her current journal, she convinces herself, is to be very different from her last one, which "took as long to burn as human hearts, they say, do take." Meanwhile, Waters offers a narrative two-for-one, placing Margaret's diary cheek by jowl with Selina's chronicle of her pre-Millbank existence. This dispassionate, staccato record initially suggests that we can separate truth from desire. Or can we? What Waters's haunting creation leaves us with is a more painful reality--that knowledge and belief are entirely different things. --Kerry Fried --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.
The New York Times Book Review, Nancy Willard
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totalement ensorcellée,
Ce commentaire fait référence à cette édition : Affinity (Broché)
après l'avoir acheté, le livre est resté près de 6 mois à dormir sur une étagère dans ma chambre. un jour où je m'ennuyais, je suis tombée dessus et je me suis dit "pourquoi pas?" je l'ai fini en 3 jours! ce livre vous ensorcelle, vous trouble, s'adresse directement à votre âme. il faut le lire pour comprendre car il n'y a pas de mots assez fort pour le décrire. j'en suis tombée amoureuse. au fur et à mesure que l'on progresse, on devient Margaret, on se laisse prendre par ce tourbillon, on s'accroche désespérément à Selina, à la magie, à l'amour. les critiques ne se sont pas trompés en avançant que l'on "voudrait définitivement croire en la magie après avoir lu Affinity"!!! il est poignant, déchirant, troublant, passionnant, autant d'adjectifs qui le qualifient mais c'est plus que ça encore. à tous ceux qui hésitent encore... lisez-le, un peu de magie, ça ne fait pas de mal, non?
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100% ENCHANTEMENT,
Ce commentaire fait référence à cette édition : Affinity (Broché)
I started reading with the greatest expectations, having finished Fingersmith - which I found marvellous from the first letter until the last - only two days ago. At first i found the book rather ordinary, dull even, and felt a bit disappointed, i thought it's cheap stuff they are trying to sell me... and I won't buy it. Reading on, however, i have bought it, all of it, and couldn't let go anymore. When I had to put down the book at 4 AM, as i couldn't keep my eyes open for another second, i was as deeply in it, as Margaret, i believed in it and couldn't wait to wake up this morning to know what happens to her, to Selina and Millbank... i dreamt about them, and took up the book first thing in the morning.I had only about 70 pages to go, and the pression was quite difficult to bear... :) And for the last ten pages i felt the anger rise in me, i felt cheated by the book, i thought "I can't believe it! What a cheap trick!" and i told my girlfriend when she asked that I didn't find it as good as Fingersmith and that i was disappointed. After that, thinking about the ending and Margaret, i grew really really sad and halfway through lunch i said out of the blue that "After all, i think maybe it was a great deal better than Fingersmith." :) And it was. Usually people don't appreciate books that leave them empty and sad... but i had to realize how amazingly all my feelings regarding the novel follow the pattern and intensity of Margaret's emotions as the plot develops, feeling the two at the same time, and in a few hours i lived the last month of her life, almost dying with her in the end. Aidez d'autres clients à trouver les commentaires les plus utiles
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