Golden Gate
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9788860886293 (8860886295)
Publish date: June 28th 2012
Publisher: Guanda
Pages no: 320
Edition language: Italian
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
American,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Contemporary,
India,
Asian Literature,
Indian Literature,
Poetry
The main problem with Vikram Seth's exquisitely crafted verse novel about the personal lives of yuppies in the Bay Area of the 1980s is, well, the personal lives of yuppies. They're just not that interesting. Not even the most beautifully turned phrases, the most glowing imagery, can keep over 300 p...
When I stop crying I'll review this.PS: I'm not going to stop crying. On reflection this fact is the review.PPS: I'm so grateful to have been given this book.
Completely unique book, as far as I know the only major verse novel written in English during the last 100 years. The life and loves of a bunch of 80s yuppies in Silicon Valley, told in Petrarchan sonnets. It should be a catastrophe, but in fact it's a brilliant success - funny, romantic, tragic, wi...
15 years ago
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