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Lädt ... Gangsta Bone. (1995)von Russell Banks
  
Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch.   ) soraxtm | Apr 9, 2023 |  The journey of discovery is told by Bone, a fourteen year old self-described "slacker", who escapes from his abusive stepfather and negligent mother in frigid upstate New York and travels with a rasta dude to Jamaica possibly in search of his real father. The story was engaging and the settings and the descriptions of upstate New York and Jamaica are incredibly realistic. As is sometimes the case with Banks, more details than I require. I remember being much more engaged with the main character when I read Huckleberry Finn and Catcher in the Rye than I did with Bone, but that could be a function of age. My age. Bone has grown up in a home where he has been abused and neglected. Somehow, despite or perhaps because of it, he has tremendous self-awareness despite continuing to make really bad life choices. I found that a little hard to buy. That’s just a writerly quibble. This is an excellent novel. Highly recommended. (  ) LenJoy | Mar 14, 2021 | Chapie a 14 ans et est un ado paumé. Loin d'être irréprochable mais attachant, il vivote de petits deals et larcins. Cela lui permet à peine de s'adonner à la fumette et de squatter dans l'appartement d'un ami avec des bikers. Lorsque les évènements le poussent à quitter sa famille et la ville, on se dit qu'il n'y a pas beaucoup à regretter dans cet environnement sordide et sans espoir. Il s'engage dans un parcours initiatique sur les routes américaines puis en Jamaïque. Un changement d'identité (il devient Bone), un tatouage, la rencontre avec I-man, l'apprentissage du Je-même, la découverte de son père et une cérémonie d'initiation rasta en sont quelques jalons. Jamais manichéen, Russell Banks nous plonge avec rudesse mais non sans un humour désespéré dans l'univers de Bone. Son écriture saisit admirablement les traits des personnages même secondaires. Son style, précis mais pas superflu, rend les dialogues et les situations très réalistes et poignants. Cette histoire, à la fois violente et émouvante, m'a complètement embarquée jusqu'à sa superbe destination étoilée. Joop-le-philosophe | Oct 11, 2019 | ) chauveaux | Sep 11, 2019 | ) Eye_Gee | May 8, 2017 | keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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When we first meet him, Chappie is a punked-out teenager living with his mother and abusive stepfather in an upstate New York trailer park. During this time, he slips into drugs and petty crime. Rejected by his parents, out of school and in trouble with the police, he claims for himself a new identity as a permanent outsider; he gets a crossed-bones tattoo on his arm, and takes the name "Bone." He finds dangerous refuge with a group of biker-thieves, and then hides in the boarded-up summer house of a professor and his wife. He finally settles in an abandoned schoolbus with Rose, a child he rescues from a fast-talking pedophile. There Bone meets I-Man, an exiled Rastafarian, and together they begin a second adventure that takes the reader from Middle America to the ganja-growing mountains of Jamaica. It is an amazing journey of self-discovery through a world of magic, violence, betrayal and redemption. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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 Google Books — Lädt ...GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Klassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt: (3.85)
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