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S'està carregant… Please Don't Come Back from the Moon (2005)de Dean Bakopoulos
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Moving first-person tale of young men maturing without a father in the Detroit working class Slavic suburbs after the factory closings,1990-2003. This novel is fresh, vivid: education is not redemptive, although the boys read labor histories, Dostoyevsky, Homer, philosophy, the Best American Short Stories. I can picture what he's talking about—the insides of houses, the bars, the shopping malls, supermarkets, the spas, the peripheral political events, the habits people have as they're talking. The chapter on the gathering of the sons in the parking lot is heartbreakingly eloquent. Although there's a touch of magic realism — "For the first time that night I looked at the moon as I walked and this is when I felt my feet leave the earth: I started walking a few inches off of the ground, as if I were following some invisible staircase" — it's in the context of conscious dream, and hence, believable. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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As the friends grow up in a town with few employment prospects beyond the new shopping mall, Bakopoulos writes with absorbing prose as the youngsters try to make their way in life against the limiting odds of the realities of their environment.
4 stars - a beautifully written novel with writing that punches above its weight. I'll be looking out for more from this writer. ( )