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S'està carregant… The Girlsde Emma Cline
  
Books Read in 2017 (29) Books Read in 2016 (671) » 18 més Best Historical Fiction (454) Top Five Books of 2017 (640) Indie Next Picks (21) Female Author (551) Books Set in California (129) Biggest Disappointments (139) First Novels (203) sad girl books (19) Books About Girls (183) No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. La debutant Emma Cline construeix un retrat excepcionalment madur de la fragilitat adolescent i del tempestuós procés de fer-se adult. També aborda el tema de la culpa i les decisions que ens marquen la vida. I recrea aquells anys de pau i amor, d’idealisme hippie, en què també germinava una cara fosca, molt fosca. L’autora s’inspira lliurement en un episodi cèlebre de la crònica negra americana: la matança perpetrada per Charles Manson i el seu clan. Però no se centra en la figura del psicòpata, sinó en unes altres protagonistes: les noies que van contribuir a perpetrar un crim atroç i que no van perdre el somriure durant el judici. D’elles tracta aquesta novel·la enlluernadora i inquietant.  bcacultart | Oct 4, 2016 | 
 The Girls works a well-tapped vein in literary fiction: the queasy exploration of how young women with crippled egos can become accessories to their own degradation. Joyce Carol Oates and Mary Gaitskill are masters of this theme. Cline’s contribution is a heady evocation of the boredom and isolation of adolescence in pre-internet suburbia, in houses deserted by their restless, doubt-stricken adult proprietors where “the air was candied with silence.” The novel is heavy with figurative language; Cline has a telling fondness for the word “humid.” Not all of this comes off effectively (Evie’s mom makes Chinese ribs that “had a glandular sheen, like a lacquer”), but most of it does (Evie, dazzled by her father’s girlfriend, thinks she has a life “like a TV show about summer.”) Pertany a aquestes col·leccions editorialsOtavan kirjasto (258)
Northern California, during the violent end of the 1960s. At the start of summer, a lonely and thoughtful teenager, Evie Boyd, sees a group of girls in the park, and is immediately caught by their freedom, their careless dress, their dangerous aura of abandon. Soon, Evie is in thrall to Suzanne, a mesmerizing older girl, and is drawn into the circle of a soon-to-be infamous cult and the man who is its charismatic leader. Hidden in the hills, their sprawling ranch is eerie and run down, but to Evie, it is exotic, thrilling, charged -- a place where she feels desperate to be accepted. As she spends more time away from her mother and the rhythms of her daily life, and as her obsession with Suzanne intensifies, Evie does not realize she is coming closer and closer to unthinkable violence. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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