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Sto caricando le informazioni... The End of the World Book: A Noveldi Alistair McCartney
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Books which purport to be something that they are not, in this case, a novel, face a difficult mountain to gain my favor. Although one easily impressed blurber claimed to find a plot herein, I remain dubious. Instead of a novel, it resembles more closely a series of pseudo-encyclopedia entries which are "flash essays", if I may, ostensibly on various topics but which invariably lead back to the reveries of an ephebomaniac whose sexual fantasies struck me as disturbing to the point of depressing.. The author is capable of deploying some inventive surrealism and he can be humorous, but there are plenty of authors out there who can be funny without every third sentence being offensive. ( ) I should state my personal connection here. Al was my best friend for a few years back in my late teens. Jan 9, 2013: I'm ashamed to say I misplaced this for quite a while, largely because I left it lying around and my housemate tidied it away into a box in the back room which I've just gone through. I've been reading it a bit at a time, which seems to suit the encyclopaedic style. It's funny reading something written by Al. It's very good but I keep getting distracted by memories of our past friendship, stopping and remembering things and drifting off into reminiscence. March 22, 2013: Almost finished and I've bloody put it down somewhere strange again. Not fair! I tend to wander around the house with it, but you'd think being a good, big, solid book it wouldn't keep disappearing. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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This is no ordinary novel. An encyclopedia of memory - from A to Z - ""The End of the World Book"" deftly intertwines fiction, memoir, and cultural history, reimagining the story of the world and one man's life as they both hurtle toward a frightening future. Alistair McCartney's alphabetical guide to the apocalypse layers images like a prose poem, building from Aristotle to da Vinci, hip-hop to lederhosen, plagues to zippers, while barreling from antiquity to the present.In this profound book about mortality, McCartney composes an irreverent archive of philosophical obsessions and homoerotic fixations, demonstrating the difficulty of separating what is real from what is imagined.The most significant art form of the decade known as the 1970s was undoubtedly macrame, that coarse lacework produced by weaving cords into a pattern. However, some contest this and argue that, on the contrary, mime was the greatest cultural achievement of the decade: mime, that subtle art form in which people with white pancake makeup on their faces, with black markings on their lips and around their eyes, dressed in overalls and horizontally striped T-shirts, brilliantly expressed something, anything, by virtue of movement and facial expression alone, that is to say, mutely, as if their tongues had been cut out of their heads. Although I admire mime...I still believe macrame is the higher and purer art form.In the late 1970s, at the height of macrame's popularity...while other children made charming macrame potholders for their mothers, and macrame owls that would serve as tasteful wall hangings, for my mother, using off-white wool, I made a realistic macrame psyche. - excerpt from ""The End of the World Book"". Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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