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Bezig met laden... The Year of Loving Dangerously (2009)door Ted Rall
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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. A graphic novel account of Rall's year on the streets. Thrown out of Columbia University, without a job, without any real prospects, Ted Rall becomes, accidentally, a gigolo who travels from couch to couch (and bed to bed) to survive while looking for a job. A modern day 'Down and Out in Paris and London'. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
New York City in the 80s, and Ted Rall is in college. Everything is fine before his pranks, lack of focus, and restlessness get him expelled. Unable to find a job and rejected by his parents, he considers suicide. By happenstance he finds comfort in the arms of many women as he bed-hops around the five boroughs. It's better than homelessness, but the psychic toll of selling himself and his affection was higher than he imagined. Both acidly funny and brutally honest, Rall pours out his guts in this remembrance of this most difficult chapter in his life. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Anyhow, Rall presents himself as an entitled ass whose problems are always someone else's fault. He ends up suspended from Columbia University and chooses homelessness for a summer because, "My mom would happily wire me some cash, but her price, humiliation and infantilization, would be too high."
The marketing pushes how he slept with women in order to avoid sleeping on the streets, but he really doesn't spend much time on that and does little to develop the women as characters even though he mostly rotated regularly through only a handful of them.
The writing is very episodic with no real structure or arc. The art is stiff and mediocre. ( )