Nell Zink
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Algemene kennis
- Geboortedatum
- 1964
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- California, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Bad Belzig, Germany
- Opleiding
- Stuart Hall School
College of William and Mary B.A.
University of Tübingen PhD in Media Studies
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Contemporary fiction: couple hides injured bird in apartment in Name that Book (november 2018)
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Mislaid: A Novel door Nell Zink
Not quite as bitchy as the Wallcreeper but equally funny.
A nasty, brilliant critique of feminism, ecoterrorism, and those annoying folks known as birders.
Amusing. Probably should've been edited down to a novella. One nitpicky point: Nell Zink has the narrator, who should know better, describe driving on "the PCH" in Southern California. No SoCal local, as is the narrator, refers to Pacific Coast Highway as "the PCH" -- just PCH. I even bother to mention this because the author is hyper-attuned to language, such as when her characters mock an immigrant coffee shop owner for overusing the word "any." Any, cool.
Oh man.
Spoilers Abound, totally.
I think this book is awful. I just read several positive/glowing reviews and I'm stunned. Plus the author is old. I thought maybe she was very young but no.
It made me feel old because I thought the intellectual content was what teenagers are thinking/reading in modern days. Steiner and Milton Erickson. But now I don't know if anybody reads them except the main character in this novel.
The main character is somehow well-educated, even though she works full time as she goes to high school. Maybe she picks it all up from her handful of rich & well-educated friends.
There isn't much human feeling. The young people are stupid in their "well-educated" way. The boy from Maine -- where in Maine. Whose Maine?
I don't know what to write.… (meer)
Spoilers Abound, totally.
I think this book is awful. I just read several positive/glowing reviews and I'm stunned. Plus the author is old. I thought maybe she was very young but no.
It made me feel old because I thought the intellectual content was what teenagers are thinking/reading in modern days. Steiner and Milton Erickson. But now I don't know if anybody reads them except the main character in this novel.
The main character is somehow well-educated, even though she works full time as she goes to high school. Maybe she picks it all up from her handful of rich & well-educated friends.
There isn't much human feeling. The young people are stupid in their "well-educated" way. The boy from Maine -- where in Maine. Whose Maine?
I don't know what to write.… (meer)
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