Brock Clarke
Autore di An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England
Sull'Autore
Brock Clarke teaches creative writing at the University of Cincinnati.
Opere di Brock Clarke
Opere correlate
You Must Be This Tall to Ride: Contemporary Writers Take You Inside The Story (2009) — Collaboratore — 20 copie
Astoria to Zion: Twenty-Six Stories of Risk and Abandon from Ecotone's First Decade (2014) — Collaboratore — 13 copie
The Algonquin Reader: Fall 2014 — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Oxford American: The Southern Magazine of Good Writing. No. 57 (2007): Best of the South (2007) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1968-11-19
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Portland, Maine, USA
- Attività lavorative
- creative writing teacher
author - Organizzazioni
- Bowdoin College
Utenti
Recensioni
While I found the premise interesting, I found most of the characters inauthentic. There was a lot of unrealized potential in this book. Miller's voice felt particularly unreal. No 10 year old, no matter how precocious, talks like Miller does. I enjoyed the novel, but wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing.This is a quirky book about Calvin Bledsoe, who after both his parents die within weeks of each other ends up on a trans-Atlantic journey with an aunt he never knew existed. I don’t think this book gets the credit it deserves, and it may not be for everyone, but if you enjoy novels told from the point of view of non-neurotypical characters who may not be reliable narrators, this may be for you.
Liste
Fiction on Fire (1)
Fiction For Men (1)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 10
- Opere correlate
- 8
- Utenti
- 2,182
- Popolarità
- #11,743
- Voto
- 3.1
- Recensioni
- 179
- ISBN
- 54
- Lingue
- 5
- Preferito da
- 2
Thie is supposed to be funny in the way that "all of life is trying to kill me" sort of way, but I got only a few smirks out of this book, and no belly laughs. The guy is too pathetic. Laughing at him is, for me, like crushing a slug.
For those who like a pathetic anti-hero who has life continue to fall on him, this would be a fun read. It is well-written and makes internal sense. It simply isn't to my taste.
I did enjoy the series of people who really wanted to line up to burn down writer's homes. I would have liked more on why they felt so strongly about their destruction. Lots of funny stories in there....… (altro)