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Lädt ... Mislaidvon Nell Zink
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Not quite as bitchy as the Wallcreeper but equally funny. ( ) A highly entertaining novel. I veered between being bowled over by the acuity of its observations and occasionally finding it a little too smartass and knowing. It's an unusual and compelling enough story but the narrative gets a bit buried under the weight of all the witicisms. It's frequently funny and I could have devoured it in less time than I did but ultimately although I'd read more by her I'm not sure if the novel really 'moved' me to make it a classic. I can see how the easily offended may not like it so much as there's a lot of un-PC language expressed by the characters. With themes of race, sexuality and identity it serves as a heady enough affair, written in articulate language but it depends much on whether you like the clever writing and wisecracking, though the stories are frequently hilarious. The references are very local and American, so you need Google at times for a European reader. Despite my reservations, it's a novel brimming with life and never gets boring and so merits a high rating. Le mariage loupé de deux homosexuels au milieu des années 60 débouche sur la fuite de la femme avec sa fille dans la clandestinité en laissant le mari avec son fils. Elle ne donnera plus de nouvelle et on suit la vie de ces deux bouts de famille dans le Sud des Etats-Unis un brin raciste et homophobe. Un livre bien tendu, militant et ingénieux au début mais qui s’enlise au milieu et fini par mièvrement s’effondrer à la fin. Rhooo, zut ! keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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HTML: LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD A sharply observed, mordantly funny, and startlingly original novel from an exciting, unconventional new voiceâ??the author of the acclaimed The Wallcreeperâ??about the making and unmaking of the American family that lays bare all of our assumptions about race and racism, sexuality and desire. Stillwater College in Virginia, 1966. Freshman Peggy, an ingénue with literary pretensions, falls under the spell of Lee, a blue-blooded poet and professor, and they begin an ill-advised affair that results in an unplanned pregnancy and marriage. The two are mismatched from the startâ??she's a lesbian, he's gayâ??but it takes a decade of emotional erosion before Peggy runs off with their three-year-old daughter, leaving their nine-year-old son behind. Worried that Lee will have her committed for her erratic behavior, Peggy goes underground, adopting an African American persona for her and her daughter. They squat in a house in an African-American settlement, eventually moving to a housing project where no one questions their true racial identities. As Peggy and Lee's children grow up, they must contend with diverse emotional issues: Byrdie deals with his father's compulsive honesty; while Karen struggles with her mother's liesâ??she knows neither her real age, nor that she is "white," nor that she has any other family. Years later, a minority scholarship lands Karen at the University of Virginia, where Byrdie is in his senior year. Eventually the long lost siblings will meet, setting off a series of misunderstandings and culminating in a comedic finale worthy of Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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