Snag Jassy Published By Norah Lofts Accessible In Publication
story is wellcrafted. Lofts uses a unique device telling the life story of the title character from the first person POV of those who who interact with Jassy, but never from Jassy's POV.
I highly recommend this book,
What I like so well about Lofts's style is how the reader is immersed in the time and place in the first page and the story moves right along clippetyclop so that by the time you reach the last page you feel almost breathless.
A gift via Amazon from friend Alice in Colorado, It's one of her favorite books, This edition is a goodshape original hardbound from, No dust cover I read a couple of pages last night to get the "feel" of things and liked what I read, Ms. Lofts' style sounds like a combo of caustic Dawn Powell and chatty Chas, Dickens. Should be fun.
I only readmore pages last night, but there's plenty going on, It's all about the characters and plot, Not that much physical description of the town and countryside, Ms. Lofts is skillfully spinning an intriguing tale,
Connections to "Wuthering Heights"the gambling debts and loss of house and, . . I forget. I'm also thinking of "Reading Turgenev"Willam Trevor,
I gotta say one thing: this story is one very wellcrafted and enjoyable soap opera, Props to Ms. Lofts.
And so to the end of this wellcrafted but depressing tale, What's it all about Mismatched love Perhaps, How hard fate can be, It causes Jassy to miscalculate in a VERY drastic way and costs her dearly, BTW, the British late's film version drastically alters the plotnatch and for the most part takes away the dreary conclusion.
More connections: "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" and Vanity Fair"
,rounds up to. lateth century, gypsy girl, This is the rather angsty tale of a stormy young lady who inspires intense emotion in everyone she meets, Is she bad Is she good Whos to say! Shes Jassy! I would call this a gothic romance with only a smidge of romance.
I enjoyed this book, but it wasnt what the marketing lead me to believe, There was no real overarching message or theme that I could decipher, but it was entertaining, Jassy is one of the best Norah Lofts novels I've yet to read so if you're in the mood for a really good gothic I think you'll like it too.
To me, Jassy was the female version of Heathcliff her mother being a gypsy and it was never a good idea to mess with Heathcliff!
As Jassy is buffeted by life's travails she leaves a long trail of tears and heartbreak behind her.
Is this her fault or not
Jassy has a mean streak that will brook no insult as she ruthlessly and easily destroys those that stand in her way of achieving happiness.
This should be a great book to read during the cold winter months,
I'm glad to see that Norah Lofts books are being reprinted for a new generation of readers, Like Wuthering Heights and Heathcliff, I think Jassy will be remembered for many, many years I have probably read Jassyortimes and own two copies of it.
This last time I especially enjoyed reading about Dilys feelings for Barney Hatton which struck me as funny! The first time I read it I felt very sorry for Barney but this time I remembered that he is really only in love with Mortiboys.
Its strange how feelings change over many readings of a book,
Jassy is one of my favorites and this thread and characters continue over several books, This book was Amazing!!!! I never thought it could be possible to hate and love almost all the characters in a story.
"Jassy" is narrated by the most important characters who get to know the heroine in their own way, "They either hate her or love her" I WOULD HAVE LOVED TO HEAR THE STORY FROM JASSY'S PERSPECTIVE THOUGH,
This plot has everything love, friendship, jealousy, etc, I couldn't put it down, not even to see what time it was! This book is all about learning the ups and downs of human nature.
How a person can sacrifice herself so much for others but still received only hatred and mistreatment in return, There are some factors such as poverty and marriage that made this book even more interesting for me to read,
All I have to say left is that I thought the ending was one of the saddest endings I have ever read, but at the same time it was memorable and thoughtprovoking.
I can't say it enough, this author manages to bring up the good and bad sides of the characters without making you detest them or totally love them.
Este fue un gran libro lleno de personajes inolvidables que siempre viviran en mi memoria, Me pude conectar con la historia desde que empece a leer el libro y me hizo recordar mis propias virtudes y defectos.
Aparte, la autora lidio con factores muy comunes que existen en el planeta como pobreza, trabajo y matrimonio, Los personajes eran tridimensionales y siempre despues de cambiar de pagina me sorprendian con un lado nuevo de su personalidad, The story of Jassy Woodroffie, written fromperspectives: Barney, the boy who lost his ancestral home Mortiboy's Elizabeth Twysdate who ran a school for young ladies Dilys Helmar, a girl from the school which her father owns and Lindy, a mute servant at Mortiboy's.
Saturday called this book "spellbinding" when it was published init is still spellbinding, Lofts' characters are so real that I felt I knew these people, recommended by Alice. This is a QUICK REVIEW of my thoughts on the book
I thought Jassy was supposed to be very good book so I borrowed it from the library.
It turned out to be a lot older than I had thought it was and the language was the more formal and ponderous kind you find in old books.
But it was the tone that really didn't sit well with me, I started to suspect from fairly early on that things might not turn out idyllically and after readingpages I decided to jump forward to a few different spots and see if it was worth the trouble of reading the whole thing.
It didn't seem to be so I relegated it to the back to the library pile, The main trouble is I think its supposed to be one of those literary fiction books which are generally very introspective and depressing, and usually dont have happy endings.
In other words, the complete opposite of what I like to read!
Is there a Happy Ending
Content Rating: Mature themes PG/M
I didnt read it all the way through but I think there are some mature themes and a general air of depression which makes this book highly unsuitable for children and probably completely uninteresting to teenagers.
There is talk of witches, madness, drunkards, adultery, etc, Not my cup of tea at all,
Romance Rating: Unsure
I started this book under the misapprehension it would be about the main character, Jassy, and no doubt involve a romance of some kind.
The story is divided up into four books each told by a different character, none of whom is Jassy herself, as far as I could work out.
I only got partway through the first book told by a boy in the village who describes her as being both ugly and beautiful and it seemed increasing unlikely that a romance element would emerge anytime soon.
I skimmed through the rest of the book randomly and didnt come across anything else promising so I decided not to finish it.
I absolutely loved this. I loved Jassy and found her fascinating, I also enjoyed only seeing her through the people around her, A great gothic story. Truly one of my favorites now, I will definitely seek out more Norah Lofts, This ending came up and smacked me in the face, Describing this in any aspect as a romance or related genre is similar to classifying Julius Caesar as the old balding guy who got stabbed but had something to do with some former governmental group in Italy.
It's NOT a romance. It's also not bewitching as in the T, V. program of decades ago. Two words used to describe this are not,
The last narrator of Sectionis a mute disabled servant, And she is the closest to understanding the core of theormain characters interactions that came before her,
All timing and progression is in chronological order and there arenarrators, None of which are Jassy,
This story seats in the English culture and countryside as much as it seats itself in the past female role and expectations to manipulate.
It is a stunning psychological study but even more than that a societal fabric of belief and custom supreme,
How could Dickens have become so glorified and Norah Lofts been trampled by the feet of oblivion,
This is why I am a Anglophile, My copy was from, is yellow the binding is cracked so badly thatpages in the middle andin the front are loose.
I'm going to have my home library decree this is fixed and never weeded, There are only two in the entirestate system,
If there are any other Norah Lofts I have not read out there, I will find them, Bu, kendi ülkelerinde bile tanınmayan bazı yazarların hiç tanınmayan kitaplarını zamanında Türkçe'ye kötü sayılabilecek bir çeviriyle çevirmiş Kastaş Yayınları'ndan okuduğum bilmem kaçıncı kitap bu kitapları okumamın en büyük nedeni açıkçası evde bulunuyor olmaları.
Hal böyle olunca okumak bana farz oluyor ve açıkçası içlerinden bazılarını da gerçekten sevmiştim.
Bu kitabı da bu ayın başlangıç kitabı olarak seçtim ve biraz okuduktan sonra sıkılıp başka kitaba geçtim.
Daha sonra o kitabı da sevemeyince tekrar bu kitaba dönüp okuduğum tüm sayfaları baştan okuyarak kitaba devam ettim.
İyi ki de böyle yapmışım zira, elli altmış sayfa sonra kitap açıldı ve aktı gitti resmen,
Bu kitabın ana karakteri Jassy adında bir kız, Kızın altı yaşındaki halinden başlayarak okuyoruz kitabı, Babası kendi halinde biri ve annesi de bir çingene, Hal böyle olunca çok sevilen bir aile olmuyorlar ve bir köye taşınıyorlar, Kitabın ilk bölümünü bu köyde yaşayan, komşu evin oğlu Barney'nin ağzından okuyoruz.
Kızın küçük yaşına rağmen ne kadar olgun ve tuhaf biri olduğunu ilk o seziyor ve ikisinin arkadaşlığını okuyoruz.
İkinci kısımda kız bir okula temizlikçi olarak giriyor ve bu aralar on iki yaşlarında, Dört beş sene bu okulda kalıyor ve burada da o okulun müdiresi Elizabeth'in ağzından okuyoruz olanları.
Bu kızı tuhaf bulan Elizabeth, bir yandan da bu kızı kıskanıyor ve kızı ve yakın arkadaşı olan bu okulun öğrencilerinden
Dilys'i okuldan kovuyor.
Üçüncü bölüm ise Dilys'in ağzından anlatılıyor ve Dilys, okuldan kovulduktan sonra Jassy'yi de yanına alıp kendi evlerine dönüyor.
Babasıyla sorunlu bir yaşam süren Dilys'in bölümünde ise bu evde yaşananları okuyoruz, Son bölümde ise Dilys evlenip evden ayrıldıktan sonra bu evdeki hizmetçilerden, küçüklükten hasar aldığı engelli sayılabilecek Lindy'nin ağzından okuyoruz.
Lindy'nin bölümü en kısa ama en masumca gibi olanıydı ama benim favorim Dilys'in bölümüydü açıkçası.
Hikaye her ne kadar Jassy'nin merkezinde şekillenmiş olsa da Jassy'nin ağzından hiç okumadık kitabı, bu da kitabın büyüsüydü galiba.
İlk kısım biraz sıkıcıydı evet ama sonradan kitap açıldı ve gerçekten iyi ki ara vermeden tekrar başlayıp devam etmişim dedim kendi kendime.
Bazı bölümlerde Jassy'den çok diğer karakterleri ön planda gördük, bu da benim kitaptan beklediğim bir şey asla değildi ama hoş bir ayrıntıydı diyebilirim.
Özellikle kitaba ilk başladığımda beklediğim şeyler ile kitap süregelirken olan şeyler o kadar farklıydı ki son ana kadar beklediğim şeylerin olacağını gözlemledim.
Bazıları oldu ama en önemli şey olmadı, buna da şaşırdım ama iyi ki de böyle oldu çünkü kitaplarda tahmin etmediğim şeylerin olmasını seviyorum.
Yazarın dili zamanına göre çok iyiydi, hiç bu kadar akıcı ve tatmin edici bir dilden yazılmış bir kitap olduğunu düşünmemiştim kitabın.
Kitabın son kısmı biraz aceleye gelmiş gibiydi, keşke biraz daha uzun olsaydı ama belki de yazar daha uzun olursa sıkıcı olur diye düşünmüştür.
Beğendiğim bir kitap ile ayı açtım, Uzun zamandır kitaplığımda olan bu kitabı bulmak çok zor, bunu biliyorum ama özellikle farklı bir dramatik ve hayat hikayesi okumak isteyenlere tavsiye edebilirim.
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