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Bezig met laden... Girls Fall Down (2008)door Maggie Helwig
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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. This is a strange little gem of a book set in Toronto. A girl in a subway collapses for no apparent reason, saying she smelled something like roses, and shutting down the subway line while the Hazmat team investigates. Then it starts happening all over the city as a post-911 paranoia settles in. Meanwhile, Alex reunites with a girl, Susie-Paul, who broke his heart years ago, and remembers her troubled relationship with his friend Chris. Susie enlists his help to find her homeless schizophrenic brother. Alex is a medical photographer but has diabetes and may be slowly going blind from retinopathy. At night, he photographs all the fascinating secret places in Toronto. Gradually all the disparate parts of the book become connected as Alex finally admits his love for Susie to himself, and we find that the "falling down" girl had a sort of connection to Susie's brother Derek, who was living in a tent in a ravine. The settings and dialogue ring true and Alex is a compelling character. Fascinating, unusual, haunting! Highly recommended. ( )
"The structure of the novel is complex, mimicking the associative mental state of the characters. The novel is invested in the mechanics of language, especially the ways we use it to define and create experience. Helwig does this not only through the events of the novel, but also through the careful nuance of each word on the page." Prijzen
A girl faints in the Toronto subway. Her friends are taken to the hospital with unexplained rashes; they complain about a funny smell in the subway. Swarms of police arrive, and then the hazmat team. Panic ripples through the city, and words like poisoning and terrorism become airborne. Soon, people are collapsing all over the city in subways and streetcars and malls, always prompted, they say, by some unidentifiable odour. Alex was witness to this first episode. He's a photographer: of injuries and deaths, for his job at the hospital, and of life, in his evening explorations of 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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