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Sto caricando le informazioni... Filthy Animalsdi Brandon Taylor
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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 liked all of Taylor's characters, but I had a hard time figuring out how all of these stories fit together, or if they even did, despite Lionel/Charles/Sophie's story being woven throughout. ( ) I seem to be the odd one out here but I really didn't like it. It was so incredibly boring, I could barely get through it. Normally short story collections have at least one story that I like but literally nothing happened in any of the stories other than a bunch of people having sex and then talking about how they had sex. It got to the point that I got bored within the first few sentences of a story because I just knew it wasn't going to be good. Also, I didn't care at all about Lionel/Sophie/Charlie and every time another story brought them up, I had to switch to reading another book because I just... couldn't do it. The prose was fine and that's really the only positive I can think of here. Short stories- not all "linked", though some include our main protagonists: maths student, Lionel- B;lack, gay, getting back into life after a suicide attempt- and the couple he meets: both dancers, in an ambiguous relationship... It's powerful writing, themes of tensions in relationships, coping with being gay... i think this is a book that suffers from its marketing a little; it's not really a collection of linked short stories, not in the way i understand "linked" anyway. thematically - absolutely, the themes of violence and humanity are woven through these stories expertly. but there's one thread that runs through the book and other pieces fitted in between and around it and, i don't know, maybe i was being stupid, but i kept expecting everything to draw back to that main story somehow. at any rate, it doesn't, and i wasted my sense of anticipation on some perfectly good writing. if you've read "real life," this one covers some of the same ground thematically, and i felt that "real life" did it fresher, more compellingly. but i also think it could just be that i prefer a narrative novel to a short story collection. anyway! i liked it. taylor really is the master of the unsettling. The writing was artful, and the plots interesting, compelling, thought- provoking. https://donut-donut.dreamwidth.org/828645.html nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Fiction.
African American Fiction.
Short Stories.
LGBTQIA+ (Fiction.)
HTML:INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY USA TODAY, NPR, VULTURE, MARIE CLAIRE, THE TIMES OF LONDON, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY A group portrait of young adults enmeshed in desire and violence, a hotly charged, deeply satisfying new work of fiction from the author of Booker Prize finalist Real Life In the series of linked stories at the heart of Filthy Animals, set among young creatives in the American Midwest, a young man treads delicate emotional waters as he navigates a series of sexually fraught encounters with two dancers in an open relationship, forcing him to weigh his vulnerabilities against his loneliness. In other stories, a young woman battles with the cancers draining her body and her family; menacing undercurrents among a group of teenagers explode in violence on a winter night; a little girl tears through a house like a tornado, driving her babysitter to the brink; and couples feel out the jagged edges of connection, comfort, and cruelty. One of the breakout literary stars of 2020, Brandon Taylor has been hailed by Roxane Gay as ??a writer who wields his craft in absolutely unforgettable ways.? With Filthy Animals he renews and expands on the promise made in Real Life, training his precise and unsentimental gaze on the tensions among friends and family, lovers and others. Psychologically taut and quietly devastating, Filthy Animals is a tender portrait of the fierce longing for intimacy, the lingering presence of pain, and the desire for love in a world that seems, more often than not, to withho Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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