La vie très privée de Mr Sim
by:
Jonathan Coe (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9782070129744 (2070129748)
Publish date: January 20th 2011
Publisher: Gallimard
Pages no: 464
Edition language: French
Category:
Novels,
Travel,
Humor,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Book Club,
Literary Fiction,
Drama,
Family,
Contemporary,
Modern
Bought in Avignon for 4 euros. I would have been happier if it was slightly less. It reminded me of The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window with it's windy plot. It made me laugh and it was really engaging but I didn't really like it.
The single-parent father is gay and doesn't know it. The single-parent son, 48, is gay and doesn't know it. A smug con artist of a writer makes a one page appearance and makes all this rubbish disappear. That's the miracle I was waiting for. If I've helped one person who thinks this book is good and...
Jonathan Coe did it again. A pretty decent effort of a novel spoiled by an abrupt, clumsy (and metafictional!) ending. Pity, because 'The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim' has its good moments and includes some brilliant dialogues and ideas. There's just too much here: too many characters, too many s...
Inhalt: Maxwell Sim wurde mit 48 Jahren von seiner Frau samt Tochter verlassen. Jedoch erhielt er sechs Monate nachdem dies passiert war ein Flugticket nach Australien zu seinem Vater, welches sie ihm noch gebucht hatte. Nach seinem Besuch in Australien ist die Beziehung zwischen Max und seinem Vate...
Die ungeheuerliche Einsamkeit des Maxwell Sim? Eher die ungeheuerliche Langeweile. Zu allererst: Ich habe das Buch nicht zu Ende gelesen. Manchmal muss man zu einem Buch einfach "Nein" sagen und seine Lebenszeit für bessere, lustigere, schönere Bücher nutzen. So ging es mir bei diesem Roman.Aber nic...
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