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Author: Liza Klaussmann
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Posts about Download The Book Epub Tigers in Red Weather: A Novel [Kindle Edition] for everyone book with Mediafire Link Download LinkNick and her cousin, Helena, have grown up sharing sultry summer heat, sunbleached boat docks, and midnight gin parties on Martha's Vineyard in a glorious old family estate known as Tiger House. In the days following the end of the Second World War, the world seems to offer itself up, and the two women are on the cusp of their 'real lives': Helena is off to Hollywood and a new marriage, while Nick is heading for a reunion with her own young husband, Hughes, about to return from the war.
Soon the gilt begins to crack. Helena's husband is not the man he seemed to be, and Hughes has returned from the war distant, his inner light curtained over. On the brink of the 1960s, back at Tiger House, Nick and Helena--with their children, Daisy and Ed--try to recapture that sense of possibility. But when Daisy and Ed discover the victim of a brutal murder, the intrusion of violence causes everything to unravel. The members of the family spin out of their prescribed orbits, secrets come to light, and nothing about their lives will ever be the same.
Brilliantly told from five points of view, with a magical elegance and suspenseful dark longing, Tigers in Red Weather is an unforgettable debut novel from a writer of extraordinary insight and accomplishment.Direct download links available for Epub Tigers in Red Weather: A Novel [Kindle Edition]
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- Print Length: 368 pages
- Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (July 17, 2012)
- Sold by: Hachette Book Group
- Language: English
- ASIN: B007HH3CRC
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Epub Tigers in Red Weather: A Novel
Nick and her cousin, Helena, are two women searching for their place in the world. With the Second World War drawing two a close, both women find themselves ready to take on the rest of their lives. In author Liza Klaussmann's debut novel, "Tigers in Red Weather", readers are provided with the strong characterization of an intriguing family.
Nick and her husband Hughes are finding it difficult to adjust to domestic life after the end of the war. They live in a small, Florida cottage where the repetition of their daily routines is taking a toll on them. Hughes follows the role that most men of the era do, consistently attending work to provide for his family. Nick, never much of a cook, finds it difficult to complete her daily tasks, and longs for something more.
Meanwhile, her cousin Helena is starting her new life by marrying a Hollywood producer. After the unfortunate death of her first husband, who lost his life in the war, Helena finally seems to be on the path to her dream life. Unfortunately, the lights of her Hollywood marriage are not as bright as she thought. Her husband seems interested in only using her family's money to fund his ill-fated project.
Fast-forward ten years, and both Nick and Helena are mothers to Daisy and Ed respectively. The two women, along with their children and Hughes, are spending the summer at the family's coastal property, The Tiger House. Despite their age, both women long for a more interesting life. When Daisy and Ed stumble upon the brutally murdered corpse of a maid, the facade of happiness that the entire family has built begins to come crashing down.
I found it quite difficult to rate this book, as my opinion of it changed continuously throughout the course of reading it. Told from the viewpoint of five different characters, and switching back and forth in time from 1945 to 1969, this novel explores the intricacies of human relationships and their consequences.
The story opens with a narrative told in the third person from the viewpoint of Nick, a strong independent young woman who is looking forward to her husband Hughes returning to her from active duty in Europe during WW2. Her cousin Helena's husband has been killed in the war, and Nick is counting her lucky stars that she will soon be reunited with Hughes, whilst her cousin is rushing into marriage with another man who seems to be a poor match. The book then skips forward in time, and next we hear from Nick she is living with Hughes in Florida, and the relationship is far from happy. The man who has returned to her is not the same man who she had fallen in love with and married. To save her marriage, Nick must make choices and compromises, and perhaps sacrifice her own dreams and ambitions.
I really liked the character of Nick, and could strongly identify with her feelings of disillusion as her marriage does not turn out to be the great adventure she had hoped for, but rather a gilded cage where her wings are constantly being clipped. Trapped in the role of a housewife during the 1940's and 50's, Nick visibly wilts and loses some of her feisty spirit, but always manages to keep a little spark of defiance and personality - she will never be the typical housewife of the time, and I admired her for it.