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Sto caricando le informazioni... Hard Rain Falling (1966)di Don Carpenter
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. 3.8ish ( ) One of the best books I have read, as a teenager struggling for identity, the catcher in the rye struck a chord with me and in adulthood this book has done the same. Carpenter makes so many observations, some incredibly humorous others raw, cutting the crap and stripping away the bullshit; leaving you thinking holy shit he's right, he has a damn good point. It felt like three books in one and he nearly timed the pace of the book to a t, the final third was definitely read with most appetite. To me, this is close to a perfect novel. It's a shame it's not mentioned often among classics of that era. It's incredibly easy to digest while also being absolutely stunning. Those who like A Little Life and works by Cormac McCarthy but like to hop off the beaten path to books not everyone's read will enjoy this immensely. To quote the Rumpus review: "Hard Rain Falling is populist fiction at its best. It is not just a good novel. It might be the most unheralded important American novel of the 1960s." (It's been said it's a crime novel; I'll challenge that and say it's not really, and it's much more.) Dura la lluvia que cae es una novela de crimen, castigo y la búsqueda de una redención siempre postergada en la estela de Dostoievski. Épica en su alcance, la historia cubre más de tres décadas, desde los años veinte, más rurales, hasta el San Francisco de los años sesenta. Narra las aventuras de Jack Levitt, un adolescente huérfano, que se las arregla para sobrevivir en hoteles roñosos y salas de billar, y Billy Lancing, un joven de color, fugitivo y chapero en el mundo del billar. Tras el paso de Jack por el reformatorio y el ingreso de Billy a vida de la clase media –se casa, es padre de un hijo, tiene un negocio y una amante– el pasado persigue a ambos personajes, apresados en un destino que los une. Después del reencuentro de los dos en una cárcel de California, sus contrariedades verán un final violento y revelador. I did not finish this. Excellent premise, good writing, but was just kind of dragging for me, so i moved on (can't say as i have given this one a full hearing). Story of young pool hustler... he's from a broken background in Seattle and we meet him as he arrives in Portland in ... 1960s? i think. He is African American, carries a bit of a chip on his shoulder, maybe from racist baiting throughout his youth. This part was compelling, as he finds the right places to go- where only your skill at Pool mattered. And his quiet attitude facing down the worldly challenges around him was inspiring, but i just didn't get a feel for where this was going, and i think i wanted to move on an Elmore Leonard that jumped up at me. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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HTML:A hardboiled novel about life in the American underground, from the pool halls of Portland to the cells of San Quentin. Simply one of the finest books ever written about being down on your luck. Don Carpenter's Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down for good??a Dostoyevskian tale of crime, punishment, and the pursuit of an ever-elusive redemption. The novel follows the adventures of Jack Levitt, an orphaned teenager living off his wits in the fleabag hotels and seedy pool halls of Portland, Oregon. Jack befriends Billy Lancing, a young black runaway and pool hustler extraordinaire. A heist gone wrong gets Jack sent to reform school, from which he emerges embittered by abuse and solitary confinement. In the meantime Billy has joined the middle class??married, fathered a son, acquired a business and a mistress. But neither Jack nor Billy can escape their troubled pasts, and they will meet again in San Quentin before their strange double drama comes to a violent and revela Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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