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S'està carregant… Oh!de Mary Robison
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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. There are very few writers who can write Dialogue as well as Mary Robison. She was big in the 80's and remains one of the more truly interesting American writers having revived interest with DOA and One on the Way. I reading her in order and this is her second work and not her strongest. It feels as if someone convinced her that given her extraordinary abilities with dialogue she could write a play and that play became a novel. It is 90% dialogue and details the peculiar behavior of a family of eccentrics. Some familiar tropes are here like the ex who still linger. And true to form there isn't really an epiphany. The events are critical and dramatic but as with her short stories that doesn't mean it will be wrapped up. The title which occurs at the end signifies almost nothing, almost a commentary on what is thrown away. Still she is just so good. ( ) Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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"At first,Oh! seems a satire, a sitcom stripped of its sentiment and foolishness. But it is far more. Mary Robison is trying to show us how the the incredibly complicated dance of family life works." --The New Yorker Those who know Mary Robison's work will not be surprised that her first novel leaps from one prodigal moment to the next, for as Kenneth Burke has said of this startling writer, "Robison outguesses the shrewdest reader--even several times on a single page." InOh!, these marvels have their source in a summer's romp with a madcap Midwestern family flourishing under the eccentric protection of a father like no other. He is the wifeless Mr. Cleveland, now an enthusiast at gardening and insobriety since passing from active service as ruler of his soda-pop and miniature golf domain. Cleveland's is the contented life of the man who knows who he is. The same might be said for his motherless children, Mo and Howdy, though they are scarcely children still. The loutish, loafing Mo is, in fact, a young single mother to little Violet. Like the rest of the Clevelands, Violet is nobody's fool. For in all their seeming misadventures, the Clevelands are guided by the reliable intelligence of the heart. Beneath the pastel frames of their lives, the Clevelands have modeled a design for living with the unlucky nature of things, a way of being happy in the world. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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