Gae Polisner
Auteur van The Memory of Things
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Fotografie: author photo credit: Rick Kopstein
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- Officiële naam
- Polisner, Gae
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Miller, Gae
Polisner Miller, Gae - Geboortedatum
- 1964-07-22
- Geslacht
- female
- Woonplaatsen
- Long Island, New York, USA
- Opleiding
- Boston University
Brooklyn Law School - Beroepen
- Lawyer, writer
waitress
special events coordinator
babysitter
paralegal
lawyer/mediator (toon alle 7)
writer - Agent
- Jim McCarthy, Dystel & Goderich
- Korte biografie
- I write young adult and contemporary fiction. My published works to date are THE PULL OF GRAVITY and THE SUMMER OF LETTING GO.
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Statistieken
- Werken
- 6
- Leden
- 469
- Populariteit
- #52,471
- Waardering
- 3.9
- Besprekingen
- 47
- ISBNs
- 43
Other reviewers and the official marketing blurb do a good job of summarizing the plot, so I won't do that here. Polisner has taken an event that is seared into nearly everyone's individual memory and done two things: set a coming-of-age story against it, and captured the emotional spirit of how most everyone, in the days following the attacks, just wanted to do something -- anything -- to help.
The story is emotional without being treacly. It is YA, and there is a bit of a love story involved, which may dissuade some readers from choosing this book; however, I found the writing to be quite good.
My one quibble is the narrative voice of the teenaged girl in the story. For the majority of the book this voice is written as a fractured poem/stream of consciousness text. This did not work for me at all. The girl is suffering from amnesia and I believe the this text is supposed to show her mental state, but it was confusing and detracted from the book.
Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for a galley of the book in exchange for an honest review.
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