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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Sky Below (2009)di Stacey D'Erasmo
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. D'Erasmo has captured the bleakly humid oppressiveness of Florida, and the double-life aspects of growing up gay. The narrator is not particularly likeable, but it is a testament to the author's skill that we remain fascinated by his unique voice. I have to admit to being somewhat confused by the ending... ( ) Spanning almost an entire life, this is the tale of a boy who is traumatized by his fathers abandonment and his subsequent abandoment from his childhood home. He struggles throughout his life and yearns for comfort in the form of a dreamhouse (with a widows walk, does he hope his father will return?? ) He becomes sick with blood cancer and leaves his boyfriend and sister and goes to Mexico to look for his father, whom of course he never finds. He spends time in an ex convent and makes connections to people for perhaps the first time in his life. The city of New York is also a character in this book, and I loved the description of the people and places. The character was both frustrating and loveable, I found many of his actions to be very true. Sky Below by Stacey D'Erasmo Rich in details, sentences spun as expertly as an artist's brush renders a masterpiece, this novel is a tale for the connoisseur of words. We live Gabriel life along side him; the painful departure of his father and subsequent loss of the mother he remembers as being so creative and attendant, who now must fend for him and his older sister. We endure his long wait for life to begin, for his coming of age that never materializes the way he expects it will. We hold witness to the thin line between reality and fantasy, sometimes unable to distinguish the differences. Gabriel, long into adulthood, holds onto an idea of the past, a world he's created in his mind, a world he can never seem to grasp, even as his moves mindless through real life situations and relationships. To me, more than anything, this novel explores the question "If you think something is true, does that make it real?" nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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From a rising literary star "in the tradition of Carol Shields and A. S. Byatt” comes this luminous story of a contemporary man’s metamorphosis. Andrea Barrett and Michael Cunningham have lauded Stacey D’Erasmo for the beauty of her language and her ability to create worlds that leave a lasting impression. In her new novel, D’Erasmo reaches back to Ovid for inspiration in this tale of how the mythic animates our everyday lives. At thirty-seven, Gabriel Collins works halfheartedly as an obituary writer at a fading newspaper in lower Manhattan, which, since 9/11, feels like a city of the dead. This once dreamy and appealing boy has turned from a rebellious adolescent to an adult who trades in petty crimes.His wealthy, older boyfriend is indulgent of him--to a point. But after a brush with his own mortality, Gabriel must flee to Mexico in order to put himself back together. By novel’s end, we know all of Gabriel’s ratty little secrets, but by dint of D’Erasmo’s spectacular writing, we exult in the story of an imperfect man who--tested by a world that is often too much for him--rises to meet the challenge. 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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