Bruno Maddox
Autore di My Little Blue Dress
Opere di Bruno Maddox
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Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1969
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- England
- Luogo di nascita
- London, England, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
New York, New York, USA - Istruzione
- Harvard University
- Attività lavorative
- novelist
journalist
editor - Relazioni
- Maddox, Bronwen (sister)
Maddox, Brenda (mother)
Maddox, John (father)
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My Little Blue Dress di Bruno Maddox
adult fiction. inane satire that is unfortunately also annoyingly self-congratulatory. I got through most of it only to lose patience at the end (so many pages of "I'm old, look how well I can write! I'm old, look how well I can write!") Sheesh.
Almost entirely hilarious, but wears out its welcome by the end (otherwise this would have been 5 stars all the way--I just loved the premise, once I realised what it was).
If you're a fan of Miss Daisy Ashford's The Young Visiters you will probably enjoy this one very much as well, for different reasons. It's definitely the most searing portrait of desperation I remember ever having read, in an extraordinarily amusing way.
Don't want to give much away, since to say almost anything would indeed do just that, but I can certainly safely say that the narrator is rather immediately recognizable as unreliable, and the fun is gradually finding out why and then going along with it.
(Note: 5 stars = amazing, wonderful, 4 = very good book, 3 = decent read, 2 = disappointing, 1 = awful, just awful. I'm fairly good at picking for myself so end up with a lot of 4s).… (altro)
If you're a fan of Miss Daisy Ashford's The Young Visiters you will probably enjoy this one very much as well, for different reasons. It's definitely the most searing portrait of desperation I remember ever having read, in an extraordinarily amusing way.
Don't want to give much away, since to say almost anything would indeed do just that, but I can certainly safely say that the narrator is rather immediately recognizable as unreliable, and the fun is gradually finding out why and then going along with it.
(Note: 5 stars = amazing, wonderful, 4 = very good book, 3 = decent read, 2 = disappointing, 1 = awful, just awful. I'm fairly good at picking for myself so end up with a lot of 4s).… (altro)
Maybe I gave up too soon, but this was terrible. It didn't make any sense. I think it was supposed to be funny, but I didn't get it.
I can't recommend this more.
"From the first page, there is something ever so slightly strange about this memoir. The recollections of a girl growing up in rural England appear to be written by someone who knows nothing about rural England. Or, for that matter, being a girl."
"From the first page, there is something ever so slightly strange about this memoir. The recollections of a girl growing up in rural England appear to be written by someone who knows nothing about rural England. Or, for that matter, being a girl."
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