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Bezig met laden... The Apartment on Calle Uruguay
Informatie over het werkThe Apartment on Calle Uruguay: A Novel door Zachary Lazar
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. TW/CW: Violence, death, sexual assault, racism RATING: 3/5 REVIEW: The first thing to realize when you sit down to read this book is that nothing really ever happens. Yes, there’s a weak story with Chris and Ana going back and forth on their relationship, and back and forth on whether they’re going to go to live in Mexico…but the vast majority of this book wasn’t that. It was more a slice of life, looking closely at Chris’s neighbors, at his past, at what he’d lost in his life and trying to make it all make sense (which it doesn’t). While Lazar’s writing is certainly lovely, I would have liked less of the pages and pages of brooding artist ennui and more about the actual story, which is kind of left up in the air with two ways it could possibly be going. I don’t really like that. This wasn’t a bad book, but it was a rather boring one and could have been much better. The topic (immigrants living in an unjust world) of Zachary Lazar's latest novel, "The Apartment on Calle Uruguay" was intriguing to me. I was really looking forward to reading this novel. Reviews posted by several media outlets gave it glowing praise. However, I just couldn't get into this novel. The plot bounced all over the place. Ideas, thoughts and the storyline often changed from sentence to sentence, making this a difficult novel to follow. Although the two main characters, Christopher Bell and Ana Ramirez, are romantically involved, their relationship does not feel like two people who are in love. If you are a fan of Zachary Lazar, then you may want to give this novel a try. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
"Tells the story of Christopher Bell, a blocked painter on the East End of Long Island, and Ana Ramirez, a journalist who fled the crisis in Venezuela and is looking for work in New York...He has retreated to a modest house near a patch of woods...In the woods, he encounters Ana, who is trying to reinvent herself as the kind of person she'd been before the world she knew disappeared. A complicated romance develops that gradually reveals their buried histories"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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REVIEW: The first thing to realize when you sit down to read this book is that nothing really ever happens. Yes, there’s a weak story with Chris and Ana going back and forth on their relationship, and back and forth on whether they’re going to go to live in Mexico…but the vast majority of this book wasn’t that.
It was more a slice of life, looking closely at Chris’s neighbors, at his past, at what he’d lost in his life and trying to make it all make sense (which it doesn’t).
While Lazar’s writing is certainly lovely, I would have liked less of the pages and pages of brooding artist ennui and more about the actual story, which is kind of left up in the air with two ways it could possibly be going. I don’t really like that.
This wasn’t a bad book, but it was a rather boring one and could have been much better. ( )