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Sto caricando le informazioni... A Gate at the Stairs (2009)di Lorrie Moore
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As the drifts of perfectly turned moments mount up about the reader's shoulders, along with a corresponding paucity of dramatic incident, forward motion becomes increasingly difficult. Moore is a great writer, but you wish that every once in a while, she would settle for just being good. Moore has performed a brilliant feat. She has retained the shining, fluid, and, yes, funny surface of her earlier work. But she has also given us a narrator who attempts to peer through the shimmering veil of language to the truth behind. What Moore crafts is so like life that to condemn Tassie for the ways in which she fails and falls short as a person would demand that we examine such behavior in ourselves. Thank goodness this book is funny, otherwise, it would be nearly unbearable. Aggressively clever, meticulously crafted -- and exhausting. Great writers usually present us with mysteries, but the mystery Lorrie Moore presents consists of appearing genial, joshing and earnest at once — unmysterious, in other words, yet still great. She’s a discomfiting, sometimes even rageful writer, lurking in the disguise of an endearing one. Appartiene alle Collane EditorialiPremi e riconoscimentiMenzioniElenchi di rilievo
"...As the United States begins gearing up for war in the Middle East, twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, the Midwestern daughter of a gentleman hill farmer--his 'Keltjin potatoes' are justifiably famous--has come to a university town as a college student, her brain on fire with Chaucer, Sylvia Plath, Simone de Beauvoir. Between semesters, she takes a job as a part-time nanny. The family she works for seems both mysterious and glamorous to her, and although Tassie had once found children boring, she comes to care for, and to protect, their newly adopted little girl as her own. As the year unfolds and she is drawn deeper into each of these lives, her own life back home becomes ever more alien to her: her parents are frailer; her brother, aimless and lost in high school, contemplates joining the military. Tassie finds herself becoming more and more the stranger she felt herself to be, and as life and love unravel dramatically, even shockingly, she is forever changed..."--dust cover flap. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Eh! Se non la leggo è perché ha poco o niente da dirmi, oppure dice troppe cose, tutte assieme, in maniera a volte prolissa a volte ridondante e, quasi sempre, con l'immancabile elemento di gratuita morbosità.
Qua c'è tutto: il troppo, la ridondanza e un paio di morbosità. Ma almeno dice qualcosa.
È una sorta di romanzo di formazione sul primo anno di università della campagnola che sbarca nella cittadina universitaria più vicina a casa e che le pare una metropoli. C'è libertà, solitudine, inadeguatezza e interrogativi. Ovviamente autoreferenziali anche se siamo nel dicembre 2001, poco dopo le Torri gemelle: ma i giovani sono così (pare)
Ah, chi scrive le sinossi da quarta di copertina dovrebbe essere tenuto a provare in tribunale di aver prima letto l'opera che sta riassumendo.
Millantatori.