Jonathan Evison
Autore di The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
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A Small World 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Evison, Jonathan
- Data di nascita
- 1968
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- San Jose, California, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA
Seattle, Washington, USA
Los Angeles, California, USA
San Francisco, California, USA
Missoula, Montana, USA - Attività lavorative
- novelist
writer
rabbit raiser
radio host
taster (beer)
sorter (tomatoes) (mostra tutto 8)
telemarketer
editor (script doctor) - Agente
- Mollie Glick
- Breve biografia
- His work had appeared in the Portland Review, Orchid, Knock, Opium, Quick Fiction, and other journals. All About Lulu is his first novel.
Jonathan's a happy guy. He like rabbits. He has eight of them... all cute little f*****s with names like Javier and Little Turkey. He lives out in the woods on an island in Puget Sound, where he spends the majority of his time writing and sitting in the bathtub. He makes all his business calls from the bathtub. People are always asking him: "What's that echo? Are you in a bus station?" He says: "No, I'm in my office." Pretty cool, huh? He's developing something I call the sweats to pants ratio (SPR), by which success is measured relative to the days one spends in formal versus casual attire (formal being anything with pockets). By this measure, seven days a week in sweats is the pinnacle of success. He's at about five-to-two right now.
As a syndicated talk radio host, his comedy show "Shaken Not Stirred" was nominated for two Peabody Awards. He has received two Silver Microphones, and two Communicators and was frequently nominated for the Soundie Award.
He is the founder and moderator of the FICTION FILES, a forum for literary discussion.
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- 9
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- 1
- Utenti
- 2,631
- Popolarità
- #9,758
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 199
- ISBN
- 83
- Lingue
- 3
- Preferito da
- 7
Never read a book about a 22 year old Lawn Boy, Mike Munoz, hence the title, who lives with his single, overworked divorced three times, mom, divorced. Mike was always looking after his 26 year old developmentally disabled brother Nate, and he was good at it too. Mike is a good kid but has aspirations to be more than a lawn boy. He really wants to be a landscaper, sculpting bushes, etc. and to be creative. He get fired, which is fine with him, since he sort of hated the job, and starts looking for something, anything, really.
Mike is also trying to write a book though he's bad at it but he keeps trying as with jobs. He's sure an optimist in life and keeps going.
I was rooting for him the whole time in everything he did. Then there was Freddy, a big black guy who was a bouncer/security guard where his mother worked and he moved in. He was wonderful with Nate who got out of control a lot due to his developmental disability.
This book was sometimes written in first person, sometimes not.
Mike finally found himself in more ways than one.
Someone called the ending weak, I found it charming and it came full circle from the beginning of the book.… (altro)