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Sto caricando le informazioni... Swallowing a Donkey's Eye (edizione 2012)di Paul Tremblay (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. You could call Tremblay’s novel the Animal Farm or Nineteen Eighty-Four for a new generation, but that would be easy, and not quite right. Like our other two entries, there’s a great deal of surface enjoyment here, just enjoying the ride, but Tremblay continually digs to find hidden deposits of emotion beneath the crazy, usually in reference to the nameless narrator’s childhood. There’s a lot of Orwell scattered about, yes, but Aldous Huxley and Douglas Adams are definitely present in spirit, resulting in a delightfully neurotic search for self and humanity in a universe that couldn’t give a rat’s ass whether you live or die. Read the full review here. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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FARM WANTS YOU!!! Farm is the mega-conglomerate food supplier for City, populated with rabidly bureaucratic superiors, and sexually deviant tour guides dressed in chicken and duck suits. City is sprawling, technocratic, and rests hundreds of feet above the coastline on the creaking shoulders of a giant wooden pier. When the narrator's single mother, whom he left behind in City, falls out of contact, he fears the worst: his mother is homeless and subsequently to be deported under City to the Pier. On his desperate search to find his mother, he encounters ecoterrorists wearing plush animal suits, City's all-powerful Mayor who is infatuated with magic refrigerators and outlaw campaigns, and an over-sexed priest who may or may not have ESP, but who is most certainly his deadbeat dad. Whether rebelling against regimented and ridiculous Farm life, exploring the consumer-obsessed world of City, experiencing the suffering of the homeless in Pier, or confronting the secrets of his own childhood, Swallowing a Donkey's Eye's narrator is a hilarious, neurotic, and rage-filled Quixote searching for his mother, his own dignity, and the meaning of humanity. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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Not sure what's going on, because I really love Tremblay's stuff, but this novel, [b:Animal Farm|7613|Animal Farm|George Orwell|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1424037542s/7613.jpg|2207778] on meth, simply did not hold my attention. I gave it the standard 20% (about 60 pages) to grab me, and it just didn't.