De onvolmaakten
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9789046808184 (9046808181)
Publish date: September 1st 2010
Publisher: Nieuw Amsterdam
Pages no: 304
Edition language: Dutch
Category:
Novels,
Writing,
Cultural,
Italy,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Journalism,
Contemporary,
Short Stories,
Fiction
A collection of short stories, The Imperfectionists tells the stories of the men and women working for a struggling international English language newspaper in Rome. While the stories themselves are those of the contemporary employees ranging from the Editor in Chief to the obituary writer and accou...
Striving for mediocrity and settling for less is how the characters in The Imperfectionists operate. A novel by Tom Rachman, it’s the story of an English language newspaper in Rome and the people who struggle to make it work. We all know the fate of the newspaper industry today, but when Cyrus Ott s...
My four-star review is, at its simplest level, an exhortation to read this very good book. http://tinyurl.com/n66zcsv My reason for finally, four years later, writing the review is simply that it's on Kindle-sale in the US for $1.99. It's hard to find used books for that little money. It's hard ...
What did I like about this book? The punctuation and grammar were well done. The chapters were pretty short, so that was nice. Also, the chapters revolved around a different person each time, so that was nice because there is no way I could have endured any of these characters for an entire book...L...
I thoroughly enjoyed this book! A very entertaining, easy read from Tom Rachman. This his debut novel about the newspaper business set in Rome gives us glimpses into the lIves of the reporters and staff of the paper. Each chapter tells the story of a different character while spanning the decades...
8 years ago
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