Timothy Taylor (2)
Autore di Stanley Park
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1963
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Canada
- Luogo di nascita
- Venezuela
- Luogo di residenza
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Istruzione
- Queen's University at Kingston
University of Alberta
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 6
- Opere correlate
- 3
- Utenti
- 560
- Popolarità
- #44,620
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 16
- ISBN
- 110
- Lingue
- 4
- Preferito da
- 3
Unfortunately, and I guess inevitably given its subject, it's hopelessly rooted in its own time and place, such that if you’re not au fait with Vancouver circa 1995 a hell of a lot of this story is going to be lost on you. The book is jammed with street names and other left-coast references that will do nothing for non-Vancouverites.
The other issue is the abundance of annoying characters. Our hero, Jeremy, is more or less agreeable, but his Stanley Park-dwelling dad is smug and self-mysterious, and pulling Jez in the other direction is coffee mogul wanker Dante Beale, who is of course supposed to be a PITA but jeez we spend a lot of time in his rancid company. There's also a precocious child, and I can’t stand precocious children.
Stanley Park isn't a bad novel though. It does have something to say and it's stuffed with filthy food porn, even (especially) when things get ultra-locavore in a wonderfully written climactic scene.… (altro)