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Die Luft, Die Uns Trägt: Roman (2011)

by Joyce Hinnefeld(Favorite Author)

3.61 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

3442739918 (ISBN13: 9783442739912)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

btb

review 1: Like some other reviewers, I have to agree that, for me, the best thing about this book was the beautiful artwork on the front cover.I found the characters very hard to identify with, and felt little sympathy for any of them. I felt frequently sad while reading this; on its own not a terrible thing, but it lacked anything uplifting to redeem it. On the plus side, the author clearly can construct a thoughtful sentence, and I found her birdwatching references evocative. Would really only recommend to birders.
review 2: I found In Hovering Flight to be thought provoking and stirring. I started reading it and couldn't put it down until I finished it. It begins with a daughter coming home to say goodbye to her mother dying of cancer. Addie, the mother, a famous bi... morerd artist and environmental activist, is surrounded by her best friends from college, Cora & Lou, and her dear husband, Tom. In saying goodbye, we are whisked off to the beginning of Addie and Toms humble beginnings as student and college professor, lovers who are passionate about the natural world around them. We learn of a complicated life, of the strength of friendship and the agony of betrayal and how the sum of everything draws everyone back to Addie in the end. With the gentle remembrances of the people most important to Addie, Addies daughter Scarlet gains a better understanding of her mother and who she really was. On the surface it is a love story of Addie & Tom, and Addies struggle to be activist, mother and wife. But just below the surface it is a beautifully written story of the nature that surrounds us and the gifts that it can give us if we just stand still for a moment and take it all in.... listen to the song of the birds... feel the crush of the grass underneath our feet... Watch the soar of a hawk... and how life is precious for all of nature and we should try and appreciate it all while we can.Bird lovers will appreciate the poetic voice Joyce Hinnefeld lends to the descriptions of the patient wait in the woods to see a scarlet tanger, a wood thrush or a beautiful cardinal, and the mysterious deciphering of a bird song heard in the distance. I've actually gone to Cape May birding during fall migration and this story captures the wonder of it all...It's a beautifully written story. One that you may find yourself reading passages from again just to revisit the beauty of nature.... less

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