Lamb: A Novel

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Da Lamb a Lions, comunque, Bonnie Nadzam è ormai una certezza, la sua è una scrittura potente, capace di sovvertire certezze e di scuotere nell’intimo. María and Ingvar take the hybrid infant in as their own and grow to love her as their own child, naming her Ada after María's deceased daughter. It is not so much an abduction as a quick reading of vulnerability followed by a slow seduction, a careful and involved grooming that suggests Lamb has done this before, if not over and over again. The novel is so well-crafted and so utterly compelling you fear you have reached the zenith in the art of story-telling.

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Lamb is a masterful exploration of the dynamics of love and dependency that challenges the boundaries between adolescence and adulthood, confronts preconceived notions about conventional morality, and exposes mankind’s eroded relationship with nature. Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal described the film as "a shaggy lamb story expertly told. Lamb builds up in Tommie’s mind the West as an idyllic place of expanse, pristine wilderness, and autonomy, but instead we get barbwire, glassless windows, and “boots caked with mud and manure.

I guess most people's first thought upon hearing of a fifty-four year old man and an eleven-year old girl is to think of Lolita-like scenarios.

Lamb | Christopher Moore

Moore has tapped into organized religion for laughs before, but this isn't one of his better efforts.Closing the last page of Lamb – Bonnie Nadzam’s psychological thriller – I realized I had been holding my breath for the final half-hour. It settles deep in you, carried there by good characterisation, although you realise there's a lot more to both main characters, their histories making them who they are. Pétur, who makes sexual advances towards María, is very disturbed by Ada and maintains the belief that "it's an animal, not a child". David Lamb – an innocuous and gentle name if I’ve ever heard one – is a seductive, narcissistic, and damaged man on the sunny side of 50, who is experiencing a heck of an existential crisis. When Tommie approaches Lamb for a cigarette after her friends egg her on, Lamb’s reaction is to play a trick on them, making like he is kidnapping her.

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He lies to everyone- his former wife, his boss, the younger woman, the child he meets, and ultimately, himself. It has been translated into several languages and made into an award-winning independent film (Orchard 2016) starring Ross Partridge and Oona Laurence.When she rejects his advances, Pétur reveals that he witnessed María killing Ada's sheep mother, trying to blackmail María into having sex with him by threatening to reveal this to Ada. I found myself in a state of disgust and morbid fascination throughout, and I was so compelled by the story that it was difficult to put the book down, or to stop thinking about it whenever I did. And while Josh's great deeds and mission of peace will ultimately change the world, Biff is no slouch himself, blessing humanity with enduring contributions of his own, like sarcasm and café latte. I read it in a single day in the Kindle edition with pagination turned off, so when I reached the end I was surprised and stunned, the way you might be when a speeding car nearly hits you in the crosswalk and all you can do is watch it disappear as your heart thunders. This book merits discussion and debate; there are no concrete, handy answers--only steep steps to further examination and inquiry.

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After having a tearful change of heart, however, he is later seen soundly sleeping with Ada and soon becomes an uncle to her. At times, the writing is lovely: when Nadzam is describing the countryside, or when Lamb slips into storytelling mode.

I really wanted to believe that he meant well, a part of me still does in a very twisted, bizarre kind of way. On the surface it appeared to be a story about a connection between a middle age man and a 12 year old girl.