Helen DeWitt
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Helen Dewitt was born in 1957 in Takoma Park, Maryland. She grew up mainly in South America. She started a degree at Smith College in 1975 and dropped out twice, the first time to read Eliot and Proust, the second time to go to Oxford to study classics and philosophy. She received a B. A. at Lady mostra altro Margaret Hall and a doctorate at Brasenose, then spent a year as junior research fellow at Somerville before deciding to give up academic life in 1989. She now lives in England. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Opere di Helen DeWitt
Your Name Here 9 copie
Opere correlate
Significant Objects: 100 Extraordinary Stories about Ordinary Things (2012) — Collaboratore — 57 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- DeWitt, Helen
- Data di nascita
- 1957
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Takoma Park, Maryland, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- London, England, UK
Berlin, Germany
Ecuador
Colombia - Attività lavorative
- laundry worker
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The English understand wool di Helen DeWitt
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A light, dry, chilly short story about a teenager called Marguerite who is from a privileged background. The satirical jabs about the publishing industry are fun; the voice is entertaining, but the main character fails to entirely convince.
The stories in this collection remind you repeatedly that Helen DeWitt is fiercely intelligent. Many of her protagonists are also fiercely intelligent. And it would be fascinating to witness her sitting down with them at a dinner party, but rather too frightening for one to attend. Many of these stories are from her early days in Oxford and efficiently take that as their setting. Others are set about the world and unsurprisingly involve characters with a profusion of languages. The subjects of the stories range wildly but all involve some sort of intellectual problem that needs resolution or at least confrontation. You will either find such esoteric manias thrilling or distressing.
The writing is always crisp and sometimes pointed. It can border on the introspective but interiority of this form is typically also expressive in some fashion. Probably best not to worry too much about it; just go along with the story and it will work itself out.
Easy to recommend but probably not for everyone.… (altro)
The writing is always crisp and sometimes pointed. It can border on the introspective but interiority of this form is typically also expressive in some fashion. Probably best not to worry too much about it; just go along with the story and it will work itself out.
Easy to recommend but probably not for everyone.… (altro)
This is a delicious little amuse-bouche of a book. Must have been quite fun for DeWitt to imagine and design a comeuppance for the crassly exploitative publishers of bestselling memoirs in the form of an unusual teenage girl. Easily read in around an hour.
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- Opere
- 6
- Opere correlate
- 3
- Utenti
- 2,789
- Popolarità
- #9,214
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 101
- ISBN
- 54
- Lingue
- 12
- Preferito da
- 14