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Sto caricando le informazioni... Lives of the Saints (1985)di Nancy Lemann
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Louise is a young woman with a great sense of sarcastic and romance. She has returned to New Orleans after college to work in a law firm. She reconnects with her long time love Claude Collier (as well as his family). Through a series of events Louise and the Colliers are changed forever. While the entire story is short (less than 150 pages) Lemann packs in a lifetime of emotion. What makes the story unique is Lemann's writing ability. She has fun playing with capitalization and repetition. Many reviews I read seem to fixate on the capitalization. I was more distracted by the insane amount of repetition. I wish I could count how many times the color green is mentioned or how many white seersucker suits are being worn. It's very distracting. Here's a small sample, "Saint started talking about bridges. He was Very Interested in bridges lately. Bridges were what made his Life Worth Living. He was studying bridges. Sometimes Claude had to take Saint out for a whole day to look at different bridges in the city. The theme was definitely bridges" (p 43). The entire book is filled with this 'Rain Man' like writing. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Claude Collier made the world seem kind,? says Louise Brown, -beginning a tale of Violent Love, Breakdowns, Moods, and Felonious Drunkenness that floats from one lush, green, sweltering New Orleans evening to another. Returning home after four years of college in New England (?Among the Yankees I have known,? she says, ?I only met one who had the grace to apologize to me about the War?), Louise bemusedly finds herself reimmersed in New Orleans society?s ?wastrel-youth contingent.? At the center of this gin-fueled hurricane is Claude, rumpled, accident prone, supremely sweet?and desperate. For Claude, Louise is his steadying focus; for Louise, Claude is the only man who can break her heart ?into a million pieces on the floor.? By turns elegiac and eccentric, inscribing the South?s hallmarks of defeat and refuge in a group of people as intense and adrift as one could encounter, Lives of the Saints is the debut novel that marked Nancy Lemann as a rising literary star. 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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