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Bezig met laden... Judevinedoor David Budbill
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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. Plain spoken poems, many written in the vernacular of the subject, about the people of a remote small town. At first I thought they were random, but then I noticed they seemed to connect, sometimes loosely sometimes closely, one to the next. Taken together, they tell people's stories, some funny, some sad, some heartbreaking. There's a forty-page section that seems to turn into some kind of parody of a nativity play that's quite funny, and made up of the same characters as the rest of the book. I found the last section of the book to be especially moving, as it had a stronger sense of a story being told, and coming to an end. Very different from his other books, and overall an extraordinary piece of sustained writing. The copy I have is the first edition, and there is a revised edition that I'm now curious about--ie, did he change things or just add some more? I may have to track down a copy and see. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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The stage is Judevine, an imaginary town in northern Vermont. This is a small stage, sometimes cold and darkened, but filled with characters so finely etched that they stand out as clearly as steeples against the sky. David Budbill plunges into the soul of New England to find characters and stories with lessons for anyone wanting to find the intrinsic nature of the region that has been called "all of America's backyard." These dark, lyrical, funny narrative poems portray the hopes and joys, pains and despair of people who have been bypassed or bruised by the twentieth century. Budbill has written a song of the down-and-out or overlooked, a song of the unsung. This anthem of the rural renaissance is microcosmic in setting, but universal in scope. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)811.54Literature English (North America) American poetry 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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