Lola Dances
Format: ebook
ISBN:
2940000131183 (0000131180)
Publisher: MLR Press, LLC
Edition language: English
“Lola dances” is a coming of age story, very much a Bildungsroman, starting with an emotional loss, a trauma that will send our hero in wandering tribulations around the wild, wild world in search of maturity and acceptance, thus learning and earning the hard way love, dignity and a place in the wo...
The ending..! :( This book was absolutely fantastic....Yes, the ending was perfect for the story- but I was so invested in this characters, I was honestly shocked and sad it had ended and there was no more. I apologize for this less than eloquent review, but I guess it proves how much this book affe...
4.5 stars.An interesting story. I liked the different points of view used, helped me really get in the different characters’ heads. I happened upon this story and decided to give it a try. Boy am I glad. I enjoyed this story very much. I love the transformation of Terry from a scared, weak little bo...
This book had a lot of dangling threads and I started to wonder how it was going to come together but Banis managed to pull it off. While I sometimes felt that the story meandered a bit, in the end I realized that it hadn't it was just the journey the characters needed to take. All of the characters...
A compendium of human peculiarities: selfishness, cowardice, egocentricity, foolishness, lust, greediness, pride, fortitude... It's a very endearing reading but the end is slightly disappointing. Especially Jake's death is an extreme hymn to Lola allure, but it's unjustified or however badly orchest...