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Una vida aceptable in Franklin, TN
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Shirley Perrigny tiene veintisiete años, es canadiense y vive en París. Ha perdido un marido, pero pronto se procura otro, Philippe, un periodista adecuado y exitoso. Despreciada por los parisinos y sermoneada por sus compatriotas, no puede evitar citar a Jane Austen y Kingsley Amis en cualquier situación. Es toda una experta en utilizar su miopía como arma de defensa contra las agresiones sociales que parece no dejar de sufrir. A medida que los pilares que creía inamovibles comienzan a desaparecer, su auténtica personalidad sale a la luz, y quien antes era víctima ahora brota como un radiante espíritu libre, espontánea, abnegada y una fiel e irrefrenable devota por ayudar al prójimo. Profunda, divertida y trágica, ¿podría acaso esta nueva protagonista ser la heroína de su propia historia?
Shirley Perrigny, the heroine of A Fairly Good Time, is an original. Derided by the Parisians she lives among and chided by her fellow Canadians, this young widow—recently remarried to a French journalist named Philippe—is fond of quoting Jane Austen and Kingsley Amis and of using her myopia as a defense against social aggression. As the fixed points in Shirley’s life begin to recede—Philippe having apparently though not definitively left—her freewheeling, makeshift, and self-abnegating ways come to seem an aspect of devotion to her fellow man. Could this unreliable protagonist be the unwitting heroine of her own story?
Shirley Perrigny, the heroine of A Fairly Good Time, is an original. Derided by the Parisians she lives among and chided by her fellow Canadians, this young widow—recently remarried to a French journalist named Philippe—is fond of quoting Jane Austen and Kingsley Amis and of using her myopia as a defense against social aggression. As the fixed points in Shirley’s life begin to recede—Philippe having apparently though not definitively left—her freewheeling, makeshift, and self-abnegating ways come to seem an aspect of devotion to her fellow man. Could this unreliable protagonist be the unwitting heroine of her own story?
Shirley Perrigny tiene veintisiete años, es canadiense y vive en París. Ha perdido un marido, pero pronto se procura otro, Philippe, un periodista adecuado y exitoso. Despreciada por los parisinos y sermoneada por sus compatriotas, no puede evitar citar a Jane Austen y Kingsley Amis en cualquier situación. Es toda una experta en utilizar su miopía como arma de defensa contra las agresiones sociales que parece no dejar de sufrir. A medida que los pilares que creía inamovibles comienzan a desaparecer, su auténtica personalidad sale a la luz, y quien antes era víctima ahora brota como un radiante espíritu libre, espontánea, abnegada y una fiel e irrefrenable devota por ayudar al prójimo. Profunda, divertida y trágica, ¿podría acaso esta nueva protagonista ser la heroína de su propia historia?
Shirley Perrigny, the heroine of A Fairly Good Time, is an original. Derided by the Parisians she lives among and chided by her fellow Canadians, this young widow—recently remarried to a French journalist named Philippe—is fond of quoting Jane Austen and Kingsley Amis and of using her myopia as a defense against social aggression. As the fixed points in Shirley’s life begin to recede—Philippe having apparently though not definitively left—her freewheeling, makeshift, and self-abnegating ways come to seem an aspect of devotion to her fellow man. Could this unreliable protagonist be the unwitting heroine of her own story?
Shirley Perrigny, the heroine of A Fairly Good Time, is an original. Derided by the Parisians she lives among and chided by her fellow Canadians, this young widow—recently remarried to a French journalist named Philippe—is fond of quoting Jane Austen and Kingsley Amis and of using her myopia as a defense against social aggression. As the fixed points in Shirley’s life begin to recede—Philippe having apparently though not definitively left—her freewheeling, makeshift, and self-abnegating ways come to seem an aspect of devotion to her fellow man. Could this unreliable protagonist be the unwitting heroine of her own story?