Altadena in Kalifornien: Professor Zach Wells ist Geologe/Paläobiologe - und verzweifelt. Seine zwölfjährige Tochter Sarah leidet an dem Batten-Syndrom, einer neurodegenerativen Erkrankung. Die Diagnose ist für die Familie niederschmetternd. Zach reagiert auf unerwartete Weise… „Erschütterung“ ist...
From the opening pages, Percival Everett's So Much Blue is very much the cliché you hope it will not be. The artist, past the peak in his life and career, putting his all into one last great work. He wonders if it is his masterpiece, hoping no one ever lays eyes on it. The artist, reflecting back on...
Many of these earlier stories lack the subtlety that I love so much in his more recent work. Some of them that don't have it are strong stories anyway, but they are more "ordinary" shorts, for lack of a better word. Some of the stories that do have that subtlety are more like sketches than stories, ...
Even though I'm only giving it 4 stars, I think this is my favorite of his books of poems. The first poem, Zulus, is the best, in my opinion. It treats more overtly themes he lightly touches in his fiction. I liked it very much, and I saw/heard echos of his most recent work (Percival Everett by Virg...
I love this book and I feel it's somehow not making it's way to the readers who would appreciate it - which is a shame. When I ordered it based on the synopsis, I was expecting something like a cross between Tale of Two Cities and Les Miserables. I was excited to see how an African author would imag...
I just loved this book. So strange, so funny. If only I had realized while reading it that most of the major story lines were culled from Poitier movies... I'm eager to read more of Everett's many novels. FIVE HUGE STARS.
Vi capita mai di leggere nemmeno sei righe di un romanzo e capire subito che finirete per amarlo, per sentirne la mancanza quando non lo state leggendo, di soffrire immensamente una volta terminato?Mi è successo con "Ferito"..Sono duecento pagine, ma me lo sono "conservato" per due settimane buone.....
I was provided a copy of Percival Everett by Virgil Russell through the GoodReads First Reads program from Graywolf Press. I'm on the fence about this novel. It's written in a very meta way, about a father and son who may or may not exist making up stories about people who are probably made up but t...
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