Synopsis
After embarrassing themselves at the social event of the year in high society Philadelphia on New Year’s Eve of 1942, Maddie and Ellis Hyde are cut off financially by Ellis’s father, a former army Colonel who is already embarrassed by his son’s inability to serve in WWII due to his being colorblind. To Maddie’s horror, Ellis decides that the only way to regain his father’s favor is to succeed in a venture his father attempted and very publicly failed at: he will hunt the famous Loch Ness monster and when he finds it he will restore his father’s name and return to his father’s good graces (and pocketbook). Joined by their friend Hank, a wealthy socialite, the three make their way to Scotland in the midst of war. Each day the two men go off to hunt the monster, while another monster, Hitler, is devastating Europe. And Maddie, now alone in a foreign country, must begin to figure out who she is and what she wants.
Titre original : At the water's edge (2015)
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2015 Editions Spiegel & Grau
348 pages
31 mars 2015
ISBN : 9780385523233
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j'aime toujours la plume de Sarah Gruen, mais ce roman est moins abouti que water for éléphants, tant par les personnages qui restent coincés dans une forme un peu caricaturale que par l'histoire, un peu simpliste, même si certains rebondissements sont intéressants. Etrangement, ça manque d'un souffle d'aventure et d'un sentiment d'urgence alors que tous les ingrédients y sont. Un peu déçu...