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Lädt ... Telegraph Avenue: Romanvon Michael Chabon
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Ein Roman zum Niederknien. Mein Lieblingsbuch. Ein Roman, der zu Beginn des digitalen Zeitalters spielt, in Oakland, der schwarz geprägten Stadt in der kalifornischen Bay Area. Das Analoge überlebt hier nur mehr in kultigen Biosphärenreservaten. Herrlich die Beschreibung des Plattenladens von Nat Jaffe (weiß) und Archy Stallings (schwarz) in ihrer Kirche des Venyls, einer symbolpolitisch wahren Festung! ( ) Geschichte von zwei Freunden und deren Partnerinnen, Dreh- und Angelpunkt ist der Plattenladen, welche die beiden an der Telegraph Avenue betreiben. Die Geschichte ist komplex, spannend und anschaulich geschrieben. Soul, Jazz und Funk, Black Culture und Blaxploitation, Gentrifikation des Quartiers und die verschiedenen Intressenvertreter, Alternativmedizin, das Zusammenleben von Schwarzen und Weissen, Vinylkultur. Zeige 2 von 2
“Telegraph Avenue,” Michael Chabon’s rich, comic new novel, is a homage to an actual place: the boulevard in Northern California where Oakland — historically an African-American city — aligns with Berkeley, whose bourgeois white inhabitants are, as one character puts it, “liable to invest all their hope of heaven in the taste of an egg laid in the backyard by a heritage-breed chicken.” The novel is equally a tribute to the cinematic style of Quentin Tarantino, whose films its characters study and discuss, and whose preoccupations pepper its pages: kung fu, cinematic allusions and the blaxploitation films of the 1970s; and an interest in African-American characters and experience. Chabon and Tarantino make an unlikely duo; while the latter’s films tend toward gaudy eruptions of violence, Chabon bends Tarantino’s sensibility to a warmhearted novel about fatherhood in which the onstage violence consists of two graphic childbirth scenes and a 15-year-old boy whacking a chubby thug with a wooden sword. A self-help book in the style of Andrei Tarkovsky would be hardly more oxymoronic. Mr. Chabon has constructed an amazingly rich, emotionally detailed story that addresses his perennial themes — about fathers and sons, husbands and wives, and the consolations of art — while reaching outward to explore the relationship between time past and time present, the weight (or lightness, as the case may be) of history, and the possibility of redemption and forgiveness. AuszeichnungenPrestigeträchtige Auswahlen
In this novel the author takes us to Telegraph Avenue. It is a story that explores the profoundly intertwined lives of two Oakland, California families, one black and one white. Here he creates a world grounded in pop culture: Kung Fu, 1970s Blaxploitation films, vinyl LPs, jazz and soul music, and an epic of friendship, race, and secret histories. Longtime band mates Archy and Nat preside over Brokeland Records, a used-record emporium. All is well until a former NFL quarterback, one of the country's richest African Americans, decides to build his latest Dogpile megastore on nearby Telegraph Avenue. Not only could this spell doom for the little shop and its cross-race, cross-class dream, but it opens up past history regarding Archy's untethered dad and a Black Panther-era crime. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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