Justin Kramon
Autore di Finny: A Novel
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: Joan Beard
Opere di Justin Kramon
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Istruzione
- Swarthmore College
- Attività lavorative
- Writer
teacher - Relazioni
- Trieu, Lynn (fiancee)
- Organizzazioni
- Poets and Writers
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Michener-Copernicus Society of American Award
Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship
Hawthornden International Writers' Fellowship - Agente
- Ayesha Pande
- Breve biografia
- Justin Kramon is the author of the novel Finny, which will be published by Random House in July, 2010. He is a graduate of Swarthmore College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and now lives in Philadelphia.
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Recensioni
The story is about a student at university that gets involved with an older man who works at the university off campus snack bar. She is recovering from the death of her brother so misses a few signs that the man she is involved with is a bit off. A close friend of hers is suspicious and tries to tell her but she’s unsure how to handle it. I kept reading because I wanted to know how it would end. A quick read.
As a child, Delphine Short, aka Finny, is a force of nature—she doesn't understand her family and they don't understand her. Just after she's found Earl, a boy who does understand her, her parents find out and ship her off to boarding school. The rest of the book follows Finny from her teens to her thirties as she grows and changes and Earl comes in and out of her life. Finny is an awesome character, and spending time in her head is a treat.
I'd give this one a 3.75 if I could. I really enjoyed the quirky characters and the look at Finny over the years. The book is broken down into three stages of Finny's life. At the end of each section is a chapter that does a quick recap of the rest of the events in that period of Finny's life. This felt a bit jarring to me. But Kramon does a marvelous job of making the reader feel a full range of emotions and the book is well worth reading.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 2
- Utenti
- 198
- Popolarità
- #110,929
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 27
- ISBN
- 13
- Lingue
- 1
Those who read audiobooks fairly often know that the narrator/reader of the audio can make a huge difference in the enjoyment of the story, whether that be to absolutely love the book or to be completely turned off by it, or somewhere in between. Unfortunately, for me this was a case of being completely turned off and I only made it about one and half discs in before giving up. The reader's voice was slow and monotonous, with an odd & predictable emphasis on every 4th or 5th word. It drove me crazy and I just couldn't continue. Had this been a digital copy and not on CD, I probably could've sped it up and it would've been more bearable. But alas, it wasn't. So I'm not going to star rate this one because it may have been a good story otherwise. I blame this one on the audiobook reader.… (altro)