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File Size: 8380 KB
Print Length: 363 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0812999320
Publisher: Ballantine Books; 1 edition (July 28, 2015)
Publication Date: July 28, 2015
Language: English
ASIN: B00R04GCMY
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I bought this book because I loved The Paris Wife, and I have read West With the Night and a biography of Beryl Markham. I also read Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen aka Karen Blixen. I enjoyed the first part of this book, but my interest faded as it went on. I know this is historic fiction, but I couldn’t buy the way Beryl was painted in the book as emotionally vulnerable and romantically enthralled with Denys Finch Hatton. To me she seemed tough as nails, which allowed her to do so many brave things, especially rare for a women at that time. She had many affairs with men, but I can’t see her pining for any of them. I think she was pretty calculating and went after what she wanted. What I really disliked was the writing that corresponded to the movie Out of Africa. I felt the author was borrowing from Isak Dinesen’s story too much, and it wasn’t necessary, as Beryl’s story was remarkable.
Circling the Sun—My thoughtsThirty some years ago I read Out of Africa, West with the Night, and biographies of both Beryl Markham and Karen Blixen. I was mesmerized by the characters of Beryl and Karen and their intertwining lives and also by the glimpses of Africa gleaned from their writings. So I was anxious to revisit the characters and places in Paula McClain’s new novel about Beryl Markham, Circling the Sun.In some ways it was a rewarding read. McClain’s prose is lush, fluid, crisp. I noted that McClain has a degree in poetry, and her writing style attests to that fact. The novel covers the span of Beryl’s life from childhood to her thirties. I feel that McClain did a fine job of pulling out the important phases of Beryl’s life during that time frame and connecting them together in a compelling narrative. Also, I applaud McClain’s depiction of Beryl as strong willed and self-determine. And more importantly, we see that Beryl is talented and competent in her pursuits of horse training and later flying. But I feel there are other aspects of Beryl’s characterization that miss the mark and do so by a long shot. Beryl is endowed with a wisdom and philosophical bent that can only come from years of living. The bride of 16 in the novel seems more patient, more knowing, more socially skilled than the characters around her. McClain does rightfully depict Beryl as a character who is victimized by the abandonment and betrayal of family and friends, but the Beryl of the novel rises to a level of magnanimity and nobility that doesn’t match the depictions of her in the conversations and writings of her contemporaries and biographers. In Circling the Sun, we see a wounded Beryl who comes to the aid of her faltering parents and who chooses to simply ignore the vicious rumors that plague her life. We are lead to believe that tales of Beryl’s ruthless pursuit of unattainable men and her shocking disregard for friendships and pubic decorum are concoctions fostered by gossips and society vigilantes. I don’t think so. There are too many witnesses, too many friends, too many sources and biographers who paint Beryl as an opportunist with little regard for the feelings of others.So I find McClain’s portrait of Beryl nearly impossible to accept, and I find it hard to believe that McClain actually holds Beryl in such pristine regard. She (McClain), after all, has read the same bios and articles I have. McClain tells us that she found a kinship with Beryl because she, too, was abandoned by her mother at an early age, only to have her own mother reappear when she was in her 20’s in the same way that Beryl’s mother did. So then, hmmmm . . . perhaps McClain has over identified with her character, and the Beryl she has created is mythologized in a way that is untrue to her and also unfair to Beryl and to us, the readers. Beryl’s true merits and accomplishments are well worth exploring and celebrating, and I believe she can be viewed as a more complex character and still a sympathetic character when the dark side of her personality is part of the narrative.Interestingly enough, I came across an article in Town and Country magazine “An Insanely Glamorous Love Triangle†written by McClain herself in which she says,"The mystery of the woman [Beryl] herself is only deepened by her writing— lyrical descriptions of paradise layered with pointed subterfuge. Instead of exposing the things that hurt her—her mother, for instance, or her father's betrayal—she romanticizes the difficulties of the natural world and of Green Hills, her father's farm, faultless as any Eden before the Fall."Really? Yes, the descriptions are lyrical, but Beryl does not describe her father’s farm as an African paradise. And the purpose of West With The Night is not to provide an expose of her “damaged†childhood. It is rather a celebration of the life she embraced in Africa, both the good and the bad. Her vignettes are a collection of stories about encounters and friendships with the land, the animals, and the people around her.In speaking of Karen, Denys, and Beryl, in the article Markham says, “These three were not simple people. And if they were cagey and difficult sometimes—unreliable narrators of their own lives—even so I can find something to admire in it.â€She goes on to say, “These shadows aren't visible in Out of Africa, which mythologizes Finch Hatton and over-perfects their love story.â€Those of us who have read Karen’s Out of Africa know that Karen and Denys’ love affair is not portrayed at all in her writings. Denys is only a marginal character because that is not what her book is about. Out of Africa, like West With The Night, is a collection of stories about one woman’s encounters with the African world and the people in it.So, sorry, Ms. McClain, but I feel you are the unreliable story teller, not Ms. Dinesen or Ms. Markham. I can only appreciate and applaud a historical character brought to life when I feel it is an honest depiction. I don’t think your depiction of Beryl is an honest depiction.
A n enlighting historical novel about Beryl Markham and her days of growing up in Africa . Her mother left her and her husband to return to England when Beryl was only four. She grew up with African children and they were her best playmates. She is pushed into marriage at sixteen to a man twice her age. She is not the regular English wife. She gets a job training horses and becomes the first licensed female horse trainer in the world. The novel is focused mainly on her skills as a trainer rather than her airplane flying years. It also tells of her love affairs with several men and especially her love of Denys Finch Hatton and her friendship with Karen Blixen.I was captured by the beautiful descriptions of Africa and the different seasons. The life of the Colonial British in Kenya during the twenties and thirties was educational for me. I enjoyed reading about that lifestyle and the "rules" of behavior for the Colonialists.This book has led me to read Beryl Markham's autobiography West With The Night. I have the copy with photographs. I was especially interested in seeing one of Denys Finch Hatton.
This vaguely racy piece of pap owes more to Mills & Boon than it does to reality. It is tolerable (but not exactly gripping) as a spinoff from the whole colonial Kenya genre; light reading for those who already have read the heavyweights of the happy valley set.Waxwings do not occur in Africa. Its unlikely a teenage girl would fit down a warthog burrow, let alone for three days. Owls do not have striped claws. These and other tiny slipups, while unimportant, do reveal a writer who has not had any in-depth involvement in Africa.In her favour, however, the writing gets more real towards the end, and her treatment of the infamous Idina Hay and her sordid dinner parties is quite masterful.Its not bad.. but it is more cheap romance than detailed historical memoir.
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