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Sto caricando le informazioni... Say Nice Things about Detroit (2012)di Scott Lasser
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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’ve seen this billed as a mystery, I suppose because there is a murder, although it is part of a secondary plot and it’s not really a mystery to the reader, only to the protagonist. The book is much more a novel about “coming home”. But, as the book jacket says:: “Where do you go when home is Detroit?” My dad grew up in Windsor Ontario, across the river south of Detroit. He was a life-long Tigers and Red Wings fan, but no fan really of the city of Detroit itself, into which he took regular business trips. Myself, I spent my teen years listening to the music of Motown on clear radio signals throughout southern Ontario. Today, Detroit has a reputation of a city in decay—although, recently, one finding its feet again—and so that question of coming home to Detroit intrigued me greatly. And it is as that—a novel about ‘finding place’ in a struggling city—that this book works. Read this if: you come ‘from’ somewhere that’s changed for the worse since you’ve left; or you’d like to understand a little better the fierce pride of city in Detroit. 3½ stars Fair novel. Not one I'd recommend to others. If I didn't have a particular interest in Detroit, this is not a book I would have picked up. Now having read it, I realize that I wouldn't have been missing much. That said, it was mildly entertaining at parts and kept me interested enough to finish reading it. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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HTML: A novel about second chances from a writer of "stirring, poignant, and quietly profound" work (Wally Lamb) Twenty-five years after his high school graduation, David Halpert returns to a place that most people flee. But David is making his own escape??from his divorce and the death of his son. In Detroit David learns about the double shooting of his high school girlfriend, Natalie, and her black half-brother, Dirk. As David becomes involved with Natalie's sister, he will discover that both he and his hometown have reason to hope. As compelling an urban portrait as The Wire and a touching love story, Say Nice Things about Detroit takes place in a racially polarized, economically collapsing city that doesn't seem like a place for rebirth. But as David tries to make sense of the mystery behind Natalie's death and puts back the pieces of his own life, he is forced to answer a simple question: If you want to go home again, what do you do if home is Detroit? Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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I'm not sure if you would like it as much if I wasn't from here. The author describes many places in Metro Detroit by location only, and I'm not sure if you would get it on your own. (Greektown, Gratiot, Birmingham's McMansions)
It took me a while to figure out the race of all the characters. In theory this should not matter, but since its a story about Detroit, it does.
Above all it gave me yet another glimps at my new home, the FBI fighting the drug war, and the kids caught in the middle. Really it made me want to be Dave, a white guy who moves to a big old house in the City and makes a difference. Too bad I could never get Suz to go for it
Please be aware there is adultery, but no graphic sex scenes. ( )