Tara Deal
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- Gebräuchlichste Namensform
- Deal, Tara
- Geburtstag
- 1965-04-08
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Savannah, Georgia, USA
- Wohnorte
- London, England, UK
Columbia, South Carolina, USA
New York, New York, USA - Ausbildung
- Harvard University (AB)
New York University (MA) - Berufe
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- Oxford University Press
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- Clay Reynolds Novella Prize (2007, Texas Review Press)
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If you're the sort of person who likes most of the short stories in The New Yorker, then you'll probably like this book. It concerns a young couple, Scott and Kate, who vacation on a tropical island. Throughout the book, Scott subtly (perhaps unconsciously) tortures Kate. I read the book straight through, hoping Kate would somehow escape. But this is an existentialist book - the depressing sort of existentialism that recognizes no joy in either the small or the large things of life - so everything ends up pretty much as it began, with no lessons learned nor wonders appreciated.
A minor annoyance is that the book does not set spoken dialogue in quotations marks, which I found distracting.
I suspect there are readers out there who will love this book, but I am not one of them. It wasn't a waste of time, but it's not worth reading more than once.… (mehr)
A minor annoyance is that the book does not set spoken dialogue in quotations marks, which I found distracting.
I suspect there are readers out there who will love this book, but I am not one of them. It wasn't a waste of time, but it's not worth reading more than once.… (mehr)
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The book is written in a unique, poetic style that I enjoyed although I found the lack of quotation marks confusing at times. However, the narration is very detached and I found it hard to care much about any of the characters or what happened to them.