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Bezig met laden... Understand Thisdoor Jervey Tervalon
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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. I was struggling to finish this book. Only because I read "Dead Above Ground" and it's sequel "Lita" first, I wanted to go back and read his debut novel. Tervlon has definately grown as a writer. It might have been strengthened by sticking with fewer narrators. A strong start for Tervalon, who has since moved into period fiction about New Orleans. The story is tragic and hopeful and insightful and sad all at once. The book, like life, has its melodramatic moments, but also moments of humor and lots of sympathetic insight into a host of interesting people trying, with varying degrees of success, to make the best of their lives. The most interesting character in the book was Crackhead Rika, and is shown to have quickly shed her privileged background to become be a hardened femme fatale figure. Unfortunately, her backstory feels rather incomplete, and as she's a pivotal figure in the narrative, it's a pity Tervalon didn't devote a little more time to her story. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Jervey Tervalon's novel about young people in South Central Los Angeles grows out of his experience teaching in a high school there and his pain at the death of one of his favorite students. 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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