Synopsis
Learn about the Mass Dragoning of 1955 in which 300,000 women spontaneously transform into dragons...and change the world.
Alex Green is a young girl in a world much like ours. But this version of 1950's America is characterized by a significant event: The Mass Dragoning of 1955, when hundreds of thousands of ordinary wives and mothers sprouted wings, scales and talons, left a trail of fiery destruction in their path, and took to the skies. Seemingly for good. Was it their choice? What will become of those left behind? Why did Alex's beloved Aunt Marla transform but her mother did not? Alex doesn't know. It's taboo to speak of, even more so than her crush on Sonja, her schoolmate.
Forced into silence, Alex nevertheless must face the consequences of dragons: a mother more protective than ever; a father growing increasingly distant; the upsetting insistence that her aunt never even existed; and a new "sister" obsessed with dragons far beyond propriety. Through loss, rage, and self-discovery, this story follows Alex's journey as she deals with the events leading up to and beyond the Mass Dragoning, and her connection with the phenomenon itself.
Alex Green is a young girl in a world much like ours. But this version of 1950's America is characterized by a significant event: The Mass Dragoning of 1955, when hundreds of thousands of ordinary wives and mothers sprouted wings, scales and talons, left a trail of fiery destruction in their path, and took to the skies. Seemingly for good. Was it their choice? What will become of those left behind? Why did Alex's beloved Aunt Marla transform but her mother did not? Alex doesn't know. It's taboo to speak of, even more so than her crush on Sonja, her schoolmate.
Forced into silence, Alex nevertheless must face the consequences of dragons: a mother more protective than ever; a father growing increasingly distant; the upsetting insistence that her aunt never even existed; and a new "sister" obsessed with dragons far beyond propriety. Through loss, rage, and self-discovery, this story follows Alex's journey as she deals with the events leading up to and beyond the Mass Dragoning, and her connection with the phenomenon itself.
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4 éditions pour ce livre
2023 Editions Hot Key Books
352 pages
8 juin 2023
ISBN : 9781471412226
2023 Editions Anchor Books
362 pages
ISBN : 9780593466575
2022 Editions Doubleday
352 pages
3 mai 2022
ISBN : 9780385548229
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Un ouvrage de female-rage mais pas que. Beaucoup d'intérêt porté sur la sororité et sur le pouvoir du féminin. C'était sympa et loufoque, malheureusement l'écriture de l'autrice m'a parfois semblé un peu bancale et je ne me suis pas tellement attachée aux personnages principaux.
Un joli livre, poétique, prenant place dans une Amérique sexiste et misogyne. J'ai beaucoup aimé le côté fantastique des dragons, et l'inversion des positions de force au sein de la société lorsque les femmes se transforment. Après l'histoire principale a beaucoup de longueurs sur la fin. Cela reste un bon livre, beau et bien écrit.
Très bonne lecture, malgré un côté fantasy/fantastique au final assez effacé. Ce roman propose une réflexion sur les conditions de vie des femmes américaines des années 1950, sur la rage féminine, et le récit initiatique de la vie d'une jeune femme perdue dans ce monde tapissé de tabous. Quelques répétitions sur le début et trop peu de détails dans la deuxième partie mais une bonne lecture.