Fai clic su di un'immagine per andare a Google Ricerca Libri.
Sto caricando le informazioni... Mr. Loverman: A Novel (originale 2013; edizione 2014)di Bernardine Evaristo (Autore)
Informazioni sull'operaMr Loverman di Bernardine Evaristo (2013)
Sto caricando le informazioni...
Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Beautiful, Tragic, Challenging My experience of this book is definitely influenced by being a Queer transfem and my significant neurodivergences. I simply adore these tales told by the protagonist in the conversational manner that work so well with narration and the story told of an Antiguan gay man in London in the 80s is incredibly refreshing and an important perspective to see. This story has so very much in ups and downs and emotional and frustrating moments with a difficult protagonist who I can't help feeling a serious ambivalence for. The internalised and reactionary Queer and transphobia expressed was hard to hear, along with the powerful misogyny and capitalist perspective. Barry is a complex and fascinating character that has had an interesting and difficult life who I truly wish well, but I don't actually like. This is what I mean by challenging. He's a brilliant character, but a difficult one. There is so much wonderful in the writing and performance of this story, but there are a just a few little aspects that don't feel real within the story and some questionable and identical voices for younger and feminine characters that just take the edge from this being five stars for me, but it is a very high four for me for sure and I absolutely recommend. J’ai entendu parler de cette autrice à plusieurs reprises et j’étais intriguée… Lorsque ce livre est apparu sur les étagères numériques de la bibliothèque du coin, il ne m’a pas fallu longtemps pour l’emprunter… Mais maintenant, la note de lecture est un peu compliquée… Compliquée parce que je trouve ce livre très intéressant. Mr Loverman, c’est Barry, ce vieux beau qui a rendu sa femme malheureuse à force de la tromper. De la tromper certes, mais pas avec toutes les jolies femmes qui passent, comme elle le croit, mais avec son amant de toujours, Morris. Homosexualité, immigration et couleur (Barry et Morris, ainsi que leurs épouses respectives ont émigré depuis Antigua), on est en plein dans l’intersectionnalité, et pour cela c’est un livre vraiment intéressant, et plutôt nouveau sur une scène littéraire qui a parfois du mal à faire de la place à ce genre de thème. Mais les livres où le sexe tient une telle place (sans être déplacé du tout, c’est juste que le sexe, la danse et l’alcool tiennent beaucoup de place dans la vie de Barry) sont souvent des livres dans lesquels j’ai du mal à rentrer (appelez-moi prude, je le suis peut-être) et puis, sans vouloir révéler la fin, We get married most often when we don't yet know how to judge people; it's our hormones calling to each other. So, often it ends badly, especially if there are offspring. Domestic violence, traumatized children, yea, pain lasting a lifetime. LGBTQIA had a bigger problem in the past with relationships because of prejudice and discrimination against them, so I can hardly blame them for wanting to have a "cover," a het marriage or relationship. It's complicated further by humans who buy the religion scam: "the bible forbids it," isn't it? This is what happens in this book that takes place in Antigua and London. Barry married a young woman who he can never love, and she condemns herself to a lifetime of not being loved, because she refuses to divorce him. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Premi e riconoscimentiMenzioniElenchi di rilievo
"Barrington Jedidiah Walker is seventy-four and leads a double life. Born and bred in Antigua, he's lived in Hackney, London, for years. A flamboyant character with a fondness for William Shakespeare, Barrington is a husband, father, grandfather--and also secretly gay. With an abundance of laugh-out-loud humor and wit, Mr. Loverman explodes cultural myths and shows the extent of what can happen when people fear the consequences of being true to themselves. His deeply religious and disappointed wife, Carmel, thinks he sleeps with other women. When their marriage goes into meltdown, Barrington wants to divorce Carmel and live with Morris, but after a lifetime of fear and deception, will he manage to break away? With an abundance of laugh-out-loud humor and wit, Mr. Loverman explodes cultural myths and shows the extent of what can happen when people fear the consequences of being true to themselves"--Amazon.com, viewed February 21, 2014. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
Già recensito in anteprima su LibraryThingIl libro di Bernardine Evaristo Mr. Loverman è stato disponibile in LibraryThing Early Reviewers. Discussioni correntiNessunoCopertine popolari
Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)823.914Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
Sei tu?Diventa un autore di LibraryThing. |
Eigentlich ist die Ehe Barrys am Ende, er hasst seine Frau Carmel, aber er hat auch Angst vor den Konsequenzen.
Carmel ist auch eine tragische Figur, denn sie hat Barry geliebt und ist nahezu zerbrochen an der Tatsache, nicht begehrt und geliebt zu werden, ohne zu ahnen warum.
Das ist ein spannendes und interessantes Setting. Barry ist nicht nur sympathisch, aber sehr authentisch, auch im Stil. ( )