Rosemary for Remembrance
Rosemary for Remembrance is a saga of family secrets. As layer after layer of past is pulled back, allowing us in to view hidden thoughts and truths, we find out about each characters history and obsessions.This novel also explores the meaning of culture in two senses. First, the story involves three generations of a family steeped in Corsican culture. Rosemary for Remembrance switches back and forth between the new and old worlds and between present and past, allowing us a look into the difference between the cultural mores of old Corsica and those of modern America. At the center of the novel is the widow Savaria, who grew up in Corsica and has lived her adult life in America. It is mainly through her eyes that we see the difference between the Corsica of her childhood and of her parents, and the America of her adulthood and of her children.The second meaning of culture has to do with art--specifically poetry, which plays an important part in the lives of these characters, providing them with the passion and the motivation for many...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 190 pages
- ISBN: 9781564742025 / 1564742024
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