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Lädt ... What I'm going to do, I think (1969. Auflage)von Larry Woiwode
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. There was a constellation of novels I consumed at this time, and Woiwode joined Richler's "Cocksure", and "Nothing black but a Cadillac" by Raymond Spence on my shelves. It has, little resemblance in manner and style with "The Graduate." So when read by a twentyish me, seeking some good "Dirty Bits" and some insight into the world that the 70's might produce, it was adequate counterblast to the hip world. It deals with the trials and life of a young family man, somewhat trapped by his mid-Western obligations and horizons. Looking on the net, it seems to have lasted well as a picture of the places now harbouring the trumpery we face in American politics. Worth the read. ( ) Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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"The casual, tentative, attractive title is deceptive--so are many of the intimations and premonitions in this first novel which subsists on contrasts. It is both lyrical and literal, graphic and suggestive, overt and sequestered and altogether successful in translating an emotional relationship between two young people. Chris is 23, a graduate student; Ellen is 21, and after a year's interim they marry and spend a month at her grandfather's lodge in Michigan. She is two months pregnant and her background (the accident in which her parents were killed after which her grandparents destroyed every remnant of their lives except a ring; her grandparents, and their repressive, judgmental disapproval) does much to explain her withdrawal, her "sad sashay and silence." He is trying to reconcile "where I'm going, and am" with the reality of marriage, a child, an unknown future and his own precious equilibrium (jealousy, recrimination, rejection). He buys a gun, the "arbiter" of death, and much of the edgy momentum of the novel resides in the unexplained tragedy of the past and the ominous possibilities ahead which life resolves differently. Not innocuous inevitable YA but worth considering--Mr. Woiwode manages to finger experience with a remarkably true touch."--Kirkus Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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