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Sto caricando le informazioni... Nobody's Girldi Antonya Nelson
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Birdy Stone is a 30-year-old Chicago transplant teaching English at Pinetop High School in Pinetop, New Mexico. Her best friend is Jesus, another teacher who is gay, and they do a lot of partying together. Birdy begins an affair with one of her students and then becomes more entangled with the family when his mother asks her to help edit a book she is writing about the family tragedy. Mark's sister Theresa committed suicide when she was 17 by jumping off a cliff, and his father died a few days later in a car accident. There are interesting parts to the book, including the mystery about the dual tragedies, but I really came to detest Birdy, who is a whiny, spoiled brat with no redeeming characteristics. The author tries to make her sympathetic in the end, but it is too little too late. Also, the reader never finds out the "answer" to the mystery, which is somewhat disappointing. ( ) This is an extremely well-written book about "the mysteries of life in a small New Mexico town", where Birdy Stone, a transplanted English teacher, is wheedled by a middle-aged widow into helping edit her memoirs of her dead husband and teen-age daughter, who died within days of each other under mysterious circumstances ten years ago. As she works, Birdy becomes convinced that all is not as it seemed at first, and attempts to find out the truth behind this reclusive and enigmatic family. It takes a fine talent to make a sympathetic character out of Birdy (she does drugs, is sleeping with one of her students, and shoplifts), but the book is a fine read until the end, which is marred by an inconclusive finish - unless the message the author intended is that the living are more important than the dead, murdered or not, and it is they who have the claim on our attention and energies. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
It's been nineteen months since thirty-year-old Birdy Stone came to Pinetop. Birdy spends her days trying to teach her students to appreciate the beauty of literature and her nights getting high with Jesus, her gay colleague and confidant.Birdy regards Pinetop as merely an escapade. But the desultory quality of her life is interrupted when a middle-aged widow asks Birdy to edit her rambling memoir. Combining superb storytelling with good humor, Antonya Nelson follows Birdy as she helps Mrs. Anthony reconstruct the history surrounding the bizarre and mysterious deaths of Mrs. Anthony's husband and daughter years earlier. As Birdy is drawn deeper into her subject's story, she begins a love affair with Mrs. Anthony's surviving son -- a young man who just happens to be one of Birdy's students. With its sensuous and lovingly rendered Southwestern setting,Nobody's Girlis a startling novel that showcases the striking talents of an emminently gifted writer. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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