Bear Bavinsky hat sich als expressionistischer Maler einen Namen gemacht. In der Szene wird er gefeiert, von Kunstliebhabern bewundert und umschwärmt. Als angeblicher Lieblingssohn stehen Pinch, der eigentlich Charles heißt und von seinem Vater auch Charlie genannt wird, und seine Mutter Natalie in ...
Wie es sich als Sohn eines anerkannten Künstlers lebt, untersucht Tom Rachman in „Die Gesichter“. Das ist manchmal ganz schön deprimierend: Egal wie sehr der Maler Bear Bavinsky seinen Sohn Charles, genannt Pinch, ignoriert, bloßstellt oder beschimpft: Am Ende dreht sich Pinchs Leben doch immer wied...
The Italian Teacher by Tom Rachman follows the trajectory of Charles “Pinch” Bavinsky's life as he perpetually tries to gain the approval and recognition of his father, world famous artist Bear Bavinsky. The magic of this book is that the characters feel so real. The book is pure fiction, but it fee...
I am going to say some nice things about this book, but the thing that kept going through my mind -- for at least the first two-thirds -- was: haven't I read this before? There are a couple of Richard Russo books hidden here, one Matthew Norman -- and I want to say DeLillo, Tropper and Weiner, too, ...
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...
This book started out slow for me and then picked up a little. I kept reading hoping that something would pull me in, but it just never happened. There were a few interesting character profiles, which account for the 2 star rating. Toward the end of the book, something happened that just left me ...
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