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1 de jul. de 1999 · September 11, 2022. White Oleander is the story of love, life, pain, pain, and more pain. Young Astrid is left to fend for herself after her mother is imprisoned for murder. Astrid jumps from foster home to foster home. Forced to fall in and out of love, desperate for a place to call her own. Ingrid, Astrid's mother is a talented poet.
Synopsis. WHITE OLEANDER, the Janet Fitch novel made famous on Oprah's Book Club, is the tale of an intense and toxic mother-daughter relationship, coupled with a look at the fundamentally skewed U.S. foster care system. When the beautiful photographer Ingrid Magnusson (Michelle Pfeiffer) is imprisoned for allegedly murdering a philandering ...
White Oleander is a 1999 novel by American author Janet Fitch.In the fashion of a picaresque novel, it deals with themes of motherhood, telling the story of a girl named Astrid who is separated from her mother, Ingrid, and placed in a series of foster homes.It was chosen for Oprah's Book Club in May 1999, after which it became a national bestseller and adapted into a 2002 film.
White Oleander follows Astrid through a a series of foster homes and her efforts to find a place for herself in the world. Each home is its own universe, with a new set of laws and lessons. Astrid's journey investigates the nature of the mother-daughter bond, burgeoning sexuality, the redemptive powers of art, and the unstoppable force of the emergent self.
Hoewel alles in White Oleander er heerlijk uitziet - van de schitterende blonde haren van de hoofdrolspeelsters tot zonovergoten interieurs - is het de bedoeling dat pijn en verdriet langzaam doorsijpelen. Dat lukt wel, maar vaker door intrigerend acteren dan door logische stappen in de plot. Het is de prachtige (maar giftige) witte oleander waarmee Ingrid (Pfeiffer) een moord pleegt.
Description. Oleander grows to 2–6 metres (7–20 feet) tall, with erect stems that splay outward as they mature; first-year stems have a glaucous bloom, while mature stems have a grayish bark. The leaves are in pairs or whorls of three, thick and leathery, dark-green, narrow lanceolate, 5–21 centimetres (2–8 inches) long and 1–3.5 cm (3 ⁄ 8 – 1 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) broad, and with an ...
11 de oct. de 2002 · White Oleander: Directed by Peter Kosminsky. With Amy Aquino, John Billingsley, Elisa Bocanegra, Darlene Bohorquez. A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing a crime of passion.
