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Bezig met laden... Subtractiondoor Mary Robison
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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. Robison has become one of my favorite writers. Introduced to her through an interview by Tom Drury who called her one of the best writers of dialogue I began with DOA and One on the Way, but I think Subtraction even better. It is a startling contemporary novel. A love triangle done in short impressionistic prose about a poet trying to save her marriage to a drunken charmer. But the triangle happens because Raf's best friend tries to console her. Minimalist but still piercing and funny and always witty we are given a kind of inferno tour of Houston Texas and the self destructive world wind of her husband. No paragraph is more than four lines so all the rubbish is cut out. It is clear that Robison could write screenplays. But the separation of the heartbreak from the entertainment is a high wire act and by the time they all end up on the Cape for the final storm and ending, you feel you have been as charmed and deflated as she is. Robison is not getting much attention now but she will be re-discovered because she is just too damn good. An essential American voice giving us a world barely keeping to its orbit with the same kind of deadpan charm as her colleague Drury. Yeah, there's a plot but this is about character and brief sparking moments of life. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
"Robison raises sitcom wit to the level of real emotional situations, real comedy and real art." --The Chicago Tribune "Subraction stands out as a high-wire act of the novel form--taut in expression yet rich with humanity, expertly crafted and unfairly neglected." --The Millions Paige Deveaux, poet and Harvard professor, is tracking her husband Raf, whohas vanished once again. Paige trails him to Houston, where he is holed up in a seedy bar, drunk and cheerfully ashamed of himself. He's very glad to see her: she's the only girl for him (and he should know--he's tried most of the others). Finding Raf is one thing, but holding on to him is another. To sober him up,to keep him sober, to keep him, Paige enlists Raf's old friend Raymond (himself an ex-alcoholic) and Raf's new friend Pru, a holistically inclined contortionist-stripper. For a while life, and Raf, seem to settle down. But this foursome is nothing but trouble for one another. Pru is a hit-and-run artist, a sexual desperado who has already broken Raymond's heart, and now Raymond is growing sweet on Paige. AsRaf says, "Assorted wretchednesses ensue." 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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