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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Future Won't Be Longdi Jarett Kobek
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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 have mixed feelings about this book and would really give it more of a 2.5 star rating. It was the setting that drew me in—late 80s and 90s New York City and all of its excesses—and it was the setting (and the Michael Alig tie-in, after watching the film Glory Daze a few years ago) that is probably the reason I managed to keep reading and finish the book. It reminded me of my experience reading Otessa Moshfegh’s “My Year on Rest and Relaxation” in that I found the protagonists largely unlikeable (although the did grow on me toward the end) and the author painfully pretentious. Another reviewer described it as “overstuffed” and I think that’s a perfect word to describe it. There were so many parts of this book that seemed shoehorned in un an attempt by the author to make himself sound oh so cultured and intelligent but were unnecessary and even irrelevant. Still, it was a nice enough story of coming-of-age and friendship, and I enjoyed the “club kid” aspects just as much as I expected to. ( ) I read the Washington Post review of this book and decided I to read it. The NYC of this book is gritty. The landscape is really dirty: filled with junkies squatting in abandoned buildings, club kids high on anything, homeless people living in tent cities, and dog shit everywhere. Adeline and Baby traverse this landscape running into artists, authors, and famous criminals. The story jumps from her perspective to his while also jumping (mostly forward) in time. It can be a little bit disorienting. The two find and lose - lovers and jobs and friends. It is not so much a cohesive story as a series of snapshots of the '80s and '90's NYC that they inhabit. I found it compelling and interesting. Here is the excerpt from the Post review that got my attention: "“The Future Won’t Be Long” feels a lot like a document from the period it details — from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s — and even more like one of the novels [of] Bret Easton Ellis ... Have you been pining for tales of drug-fueled big-city debauchery set in the pre-digital era, when MTV was king, people still used landlines and hookups were orchestrated on dance floors instead of dating apps? Look no further. As Adeline — and Gatsby — is fond of saying whenever someone tells her that she can’t repeat the past: “Can’t repeat the past? Of course you can.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/before-the-internet-ruined-ev... nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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""A swirling, name-dropping, drug-fueled, hypersaturated whirlwind of a novel set against the New York City of the 1980s and '90s, Kobek's latest is a gritty coming-of-age story with quiet heart. An ode to a city--and an era--long gone." --Kirkus Reviews "Ambitious. Kobek crafts an electric tale, and the wilds of New York City during this intense time period provide a gritty, undeniably magnetic context." --Booklist A euphoric, provocative novel about friendship, sex, art, clubbing, and ambition set in 1980s and '90s New York City, from the author of I Hate the Internet When Adeline, a wealthy art student, chances upon a young man from the Midwest known only as Baby in a shady East Village squat, the two begin a fiery friendship that propels them through a decade of New York life. In the apartments and bars of downtown Manhattan to the infamous nightclub The Limelight, Adeline is Baby's guardian angel, introducing him to a city not yet overrun by gentrification. They live through an era of New York punctuated by the deaths of Warhol, Basquiat, Wojnarowicz, and Tompkins Square Park. Adeline is fiercely protective of Baby, even bringing him home with her to Los Angeles, but he soon takes over his own education. Once just a kid off the bus from Wisconsin, Baby relishes ketamine-fueled clubbing nights and acid days in LA, and he falls deep into the Club Kid twilight zone of sexual excess. As Adeline develops into the artist she never really expected to become and flees to the nascent tech scene in San Francisco, Baby faces his own desire for artistic expression and recognition. He must write his way out of clubbing life, and their friendship, an alliance that seemed nearly impenetrable, is tested and betrayed, leaving each unmoored as the world around them seems to be unraveling. Riotously funny and wise, The Future Won't Be Long is an ecstatic, propulsive novel coursing with a rare vitality, an elegy to New York and to the relationships that have the power to change--and save--our lives"-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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