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Sto caricando le informazioni... Blue Suburbia: Almost a Memoirdi Laurie Lico Albanese
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. How cana few wordsslice right toyour heart? From its description at Amazon, Blue Suburbia sounded like a novel written just for me. I love poetry, and I have a soft spot for confessional Anne Sexton-type poems. I love memoirs, especially sad childhoods. I grew up in suburbia, so I've walked that neighborhood. From the outside, Laurie Lico Albanese seemed to live an ordinary suburban life. But Laurie doesn't leave us there, watching her life from the curb. She brings us inside, into the house, right into Laurie's heart. It's hard to read Laurie's little poems about her life, at times; it feels like watching a person cry, watching a person bleed. Recommended. ( ) There are a lot of books I've read where the main character has suffered many of the same things as are written about in Blue Suburbia. For some reason, however, that those same circumstances are written in verse seems to make them slap the reader upside the head with the reality of it all. The language of Blue Suburbia is wonderfully sparse which, I think, emphasizes the actions...there are no flowery or minimizing adjectives or adverbs to take the sting out of the nouns and verbs. The word imageries linger long after closing the clover on Blue Suburbia. "How To Mourn a Mother" could have been straight from my journal. These are thoughts and emotions that have never been far from my heart and soul since February 29, 2004. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Blue Suburbia is a searing memoir so fresh, original, and honest that it will break your heart and renew your faith in the human spirit. With each spare stroke of her pen, Laurie Lico Albanese paints a vivid portrait of the blue-collar landscape of her childhood -- rusted swing sets, auto body shops, greasy hands, home improvements -- taking readers along for the wild, treacherous ride that leads to her escape. Her mother may stand silently at the sink year after year, or lie in the basement weeping, but Albanese is determined to flee the deadening certainty of her parents' lives. Her story does not disappoint us. By turns haunting, hilarious, tragic, and romantic, Blue Suburbia is the chronicle of a determined young woman who overcomes family limitations, socio-economic obstacles, and personal fears to build a happy -- and blessedly ordinary -- life. Written entirely in free verse, Blue Suburbia's cadence is a steady, rhythmic heartbeat, pulsing with pain, rebellion, love, and triumph. This is the story many of us might tell, if we had the courage. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)811.54Literature English (North America) American poetry 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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