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Sto caricando le informazioni... Dear Mr. You (2015)di Mary-Louise Parker
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Only made it through a couple chapters before getting bored. The letter to her dad did make me cry, though. Dear Mary Louise Parker: I'm sorry for thinking, when I picked up your book, that it would be rubbish, that you had nothing to say, no ability to entertain, that your celebrity was sufficient to get you published, that an epistolary autobiography was a bad idea. I was wrong in all of these things. I won't pretend I got all of it but I certainly enjoyed the ride; you even made me cry. I received a free copy of this book from the publisher so thank you to Simon & Schuster. No question that Mary Louise Parker is a talented actress and writer. While I found her vignettes funny and endearing at times, they felt disorganized and she left gaping holes in her stories, like who fathered her son and what actually caused her near-brush with death. 4 stars for the writing, 2 stars for the coherence. Chose this as my first Book of the Month Club pick. Parker can write, though there is plenty here that is inessential. But when she finds a rich vein to mine, she delivers something worthwhile and glorious. The letter to her adopted daughter's uncle is wonderful and the final long letter where she details her father's passing was tremendous. It's hard to judge how skilled the writing is in these short pieces because it's hard to look past how self indulgent the whole exercise really is. Each of the chapters is written to a man in the writer's life, who more often than not, is either infatuated with her or challenging her in some way. Had this been a collection of fiction, it would be a different story. However, since the writer is a somewhat famous actress with decent writing skills, the reader is often left questioning who she's writing to, and where in the timeline of her life this fits in. The prose itself isn't half bad, it's the medium and delivery of the whole package that irked me so much. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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"A wonderfully unconventional literary debut from the award-winning actress Mary-Louise Parker. An extraordinary literary work, Dear Mr. You renders the singular arc of a woman's life through letters Mary-Louise Parker composes to the men, real and hypothetical, who have informed the person she is today. Beginning with the grandfather she never knew, the letters range from a missive to the beloved priest from her childhood to remembrances of former lovers to an homage to a firefighter she encountered to a heartfelt communication with the uncle of the infant daughter she adopted. Readers will be amazed by the depth and style of these letters, which reveal the complexity and power to be found in relationships both loving and fraught"-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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