Cassandra at the Wedding -

Dorothy Baker

Daunt Books Publishing

2018

256 páginas

8h 32m

ISBN-13: 9781911547297

‘I am not, at heart, a jumper. I think I knew all the time I was sizing up the bridge that the strong possibility was I’d attend my sister’s wedding.’

Cassandra Edwards is driving home to her family’s Californian ranch to attend the wedding of her beloved identical twin, Judith. A graduate student at Berkeley, Cassandra is gay, brilliant, nerve-racked, miserable – and hell-bent on making sure her sister’s wedding doesn’t go ahead.

Armed with a clutch bag full of pills and an unquenchable thirst for brandy, Cassandra arrives determined to make Judith see sense. But over the course of the next couple of days Cassandra unravels.

A classic of twentieth-century American literature, Cassandra at the Wedding is a stylish, witty and insightful novel about love, loyalty and coming to terms with the only life you have.

‘I – whose usual bed time is ten o’clock – stayed up all night reading that exquisite Cassandra at the Wedding – dazzled by the pyrotechnics of such an artist.’ – Carson McCullers

‘Modern readers will relish the pin-sharp portrait of a tiny part of society, as if picked out in Californian sunlight. Really good writing like this doesn’t age.’ – Guardian

‘Witty and assured. Her tone is dark but jaunty, the writing off-handedly smart.’ – London Review of Books

‘Baker’s ear for dialogue is acute, her prose immaculate… this is a novel of exceptional quality.’ – TLS

Resenhas (2)

5 (Perfeito)

Primoroso

Isso que chamo de um LIVRO. Além da Dorothy Baker ter uma escrita refrescante e extremamente inteligente, que usa o arcabouço filosófico ocidental de uma forma irreverente sem ser pedante, ela consegue nos envolver na psique fragmentada da Cassandra em sua busca por completude de maneira singular. É a crise de crescer, a crise da escritora e a crise do eu em relação ao outro, tudo isso dentro da fascinante e perturbadora dinâmica de irmãs gêmeas.
Genial, se tornou um dos meus livros favoritos. Não vejo a hora de ler novamente.