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Bezig met laden... Boating for Beginners (1985)door Jeanette Winterson
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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. An early Winterson, Boating for Beginners is certainly not written in the usual poetic language she employs in most of her works. It is, however, a good laugh. Indeed, I agree with Andrew Sinclair, who is quoted on the back of the book, that admirers of works like Monty Python's Life of Brian will enjoy this re-telling of the Book of Genesis. There's your entrepreneur Noah, and his close friend, the romance writer who churns out novel after novel, and the cook who is a devout believer, and her daughter who is just coming to, and the sons of Noah who just want to be loved by their father, and their wives who have their own bizarre work to do, and Doris, the cleaning-lady-film-extra who is fascinated by the meaning of life, which she believes is death... And on and on it goes into a crazy, clever, and funny story of the coming floods. ( ) What went wrong? Winterson created my first midlife crisis when she - aged the same as me - created heaven on earth (and a lot of money) with "Oranges are not the only Fruit" and "Sexing the Cherry". Then along came "boating for beginners." The word plays now were tired, the labrythnthine visions dull, the tone snide. It was the end of a happy reading backwater. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
A pleasure boat company is transformed when the proprietor, Noah, is chosen by the One True God to put sunny faith back in the world and women back in the kitchen. The author has written Oranges are Not the Only Fruit, (winner of the 1985 Whitbread award) and Sexing the Cherry Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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