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S'està carregant… Lullabies for Little Criminals (2006)de Heather O'Neill
  
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http://www.monniblog.com/2010/11/lullabies-for-little-criminals-by-heather-oneil... (  ) monnibo | Dec 30, 2021 |  I loved this book so much I couldn't put it down. I alternated between laughing and crying at all the sorrow and beauty through Baby's eyes. ( ) viviennestrauss | Jul 6, 2020 | Rereading Lullabies for Little Criminals, I remember being struck by O'Neill's playful, vibrant images juxtaposed with the setting of a childhood growing up in an impoverished area of Montreal. I was prepared for more of a sting, this time, with Baby's story and I was surprised at how the string didn't come, it was a long-drawn out poison sadness at understanding and simultaneously having no understanding of Baby's situation. For critique, I wanted more development of Jules, the father, who seemed predictably erratic. b.masonjudy | Jun 12, 2020 | Liked: good, but depressing. writing seemed a little, i dont know the right word, gimmicky? but the afterward was very good too and made me like it and the author more. (  ) reg_lt | Feb 7, 2020 | This was a good book, but somewhat depressing. Baby seemed to have it rough right from day one. Her mother dies and she is being raised by her drug addicted, immature father in Montreal. (He was only 15 when she was born). She made a lot of bad decisions just looking for affection. It is sad to think that this really could all happen to someone. I will look for more books by [a:Heather O'Neill|12676|Heather O'Neill|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1253558656p2/12676.jpg]. (  ) Carlathelibrarian | Feb 5, 2019 |
 Lullabies for Little Criminals is a brilliant portrayal of troubled adolescence, but not a good choice for bedtime reading. Montreal writer Heather O'Neill's first novel takes her narrator, Baby, through ages 12 and 13, difficult years to remember for many of us, let alone to describe in such pristine detail.....O'Neill manages to portray the dual tragedy of drug abuse and child prostitution without moralizing or being exploitative. Her narrative voice is occasionally endowed with more mature perception, but remains consistently in character: It's intriguing to ponder why Heather O'Neill, the author of this prize-winning debut novel, did not write a misery memoir. In an essay, she suggests that much of the material for her narrator, Baby (who is being raised by Jules, her heroin-addicted father, in Montreal's red-light district), came from her own experiences......O'Neill's novel builds to a riveting climax, where her narrator's life and sanity seem to hang in the balance. ....This is a deeply moving and troubling novel exploring the dark side of urban Canada, where, all too easily, children are still left to struggle against impossible odds. Baby’s story, episodic in form, unfurls in the arbitrary, unscripted manner of “real life,” with none of the archetypal, cut-and-dried bad guys you might expect from an account so steeped in street-kid tragedy. Jules can be a neglectful creep, and Alphonse, Baby’s abusive boyfriend, has his genuinely sympathetic (and pathetic) moments as a character. ...This is a nuanced, endearing coming-of-age novel you won’t want to miss.
Baby is twelve years old. Her mother died not long after she was born and she lives in a string of seedy flats in Montreal's red light district with her father Jules, who takes better care of his heroin addiction than he does of his daughter. Jules is an intermittent presence and a constant source of chaos in Baby's life - the turmoil he brings with him and the wreckage he leaves in his wake. Baby finds herself constantly re-adjusting to new situations, new foster homes, new places, new people, all the while longing for stability and a 'normal' life.But Baby has a gift - the ability to find the good in people, a genius for spinning stories and for cherishing the small crumbs of happiness that fall into her lap. She is bright, smart, funny and observant about life on the dirty streets of a city and wise enough to realise salvation rests in her own hands. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Lullabies and Little Criminals (no spoilers)
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