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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Good Mayordi Andrew Nicoll
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![]() Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. ![]() I'm not sure I 'like' how things worked out. ?This is def. not a Harlequin or Hollywood romance. ?áTo understand why all the characters made all those choices, a reader needs a book club discussion,?áa savoring of the help the author does provide in the narration,?áand an investigation of symbolism and themes. ?áIt's not *L*iterary and inaccessibly pretentious, don't get me wrong, but it's not just an easy fun read, either. ?áI'm sure there's plenty I missed, but there's also plenty I appreciated. For example, I'm sure there's a reason that the author made the lawyer comically morbidly obese. ?áSure, in general lawyers are typed to be avaricious, and to make this lawyer appear to crave food instead of money is an interesting choice. ?áBut then, the lawyer insists upon implying that he doesn't eat nearly enough to support his bulk. ?áAnd his most prominent theme is the difference between what is right, and what is good, and how they're more often than not at odds with each other. But the biggest question a person who wishes for a Hollywood story might ask has at least one simple answer: Lovely story, moving & joyful & thoughtful & dramatic, and, at times, even just plain funny. ?áTreat yourself to a couple of days in the town of Dot near the mouth of the River Ampersand in the Baltic watching over the lives of the people of this town, just as the narrator, Saint Walpurnia, does.
Nicoll caresses words. The story is full of sensual detail, of brass bands, fat night moths, dewy cakes – and snows “sweeping the town with frozen feathers that fell into the Ampersand with a hot hiss.” It takes place in an alternative mid-20th-century time frame of clattering typewriters, high heels and trams. Near the end of The Good Mayor, the narrator confesses that "this story is much more about the telling than the things that happen in it". It's an apt observation because a quick reviewer's résumé of the plot makes the novel sound a lot less than it is. Premi e riconoscimenti
In a busy little city in a forgotten corner of the Baltic, in an office on the square, the beloved mayor of Dot lies on his office floor, peering beneath his door. Tibo Krovic has come to work from his house down at the end of a blue-tiled path. He's taken, as usual, the tram seven stops, and walked the final two. He's stopped for strong Viennese coffee. And now Tibo Krovic is looking at the perfectly beautiful feet of his voluptuous, unhappily married secretary, Mrs. Agathe Stopak. The Good Mayor is badly in love. And over the course of days, months, and years, amid life's daily routine--a fallen lunch pail, a single touch . . . a handwritten note and then a terrible choice--he and Agathe must come to terms with this thing that has seized hold of them both, exploring the tastes of desire and despair, love, friendship, and betrayal. . . . Until fate, magic, and their own actions lift them from their moorings--toward an utterly unexpected future. Their tortuous road to bliss is fraught with phantom circus performers, malevolent painters, rotund lawyers, mysterious fortune-tellers--and every single one of love's astonishing little cruelties and miracles. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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![]() GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)823.92Literature English English fiction Modern Period 2000-Classificazione LCVotoMedia:![]()
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