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Bezig met laden... Everything Lovely, Effortless, Safe: A Noveldoor Jenny Hollowell
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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.   ) annadanz | Jul 5, 2015 |  This is Jenny Hollowell's debut novel. It concerns Birdie, a young woman who grew up in a fundamentalist Christian household in Virginia, marrying at a young age the man chosen for her by her parents. She runs away to save herself, only to find that that escape wasn't an ending but a beginning. Despite leaving, she's still tethered to her past, even as she doubts her future. Los Angeles is wearing her down, not only with the endless auditions, but also with the need to pretend, to laugh at jokes that aren't funny, to smile at parties she'd rather not attend. It's changed her. Now the phone is Lewis, wondering if she wants company. She is unsure of her answer, of what would be easiest. Lewis is better than most diversions because he doesn't seem bad for her, at least not in the way that drinking is bad for her or married directors are bad for her. The writing in this book is gorgeous, both melancholy and comic. There were several passages, especially of dialogue, which I read more than once, Hollowell puts her sentences together so carefully that they appear as effortless as the life Birdie longs for. Mother once told her never to pick up the phone on the first three rings. It makes you seem desperate, she said, like you're just sitting around waiting for someone to call you. Like you have nothing better to do. And so when the phone would ring Mother would stare at the jangling receiver, counting the rings until she was certain that whoever was at the other end of the line would not think she needed them. ( ) RidgewayGirl | Jul 26, 2011 |  Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten.I found Hollowell's writing style to be enjoyable. She appears to be a writer with much to offer. I'll just need to wait for a different novel to find one I can readily recommend. (  ) ddirmeyer | Jul 17, 2011 | Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten. ) TFS93 | Oct 30, 2010 | Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten. ) icedream | Aug 29, 2010 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
A young woman caught at the turning point between success and failure hopes fame and fortune will finally let her leave her old life--and her old self--behind Birdie Baker has always dreamed of becoming someone else. At twenty-two, she sets off to do just that. Walking out on her pastor husband and deeply evangelical parents, she leaves behind her small-town, small-time life and gets on a bus to Los Angeles. Nine years later, Birdie's life in Hollywood is far from golden, and nothing in the intervening years--the brutal auditions, the tawdry commercials--has brought her any closer to the transformation she craves. Caught between success and failure, haunted by guilt about a tragedy in her long-forsaken family, Birdie is at the brink of collapse when she meets Lewis, a beautiful but naïve young actor with his own troubled history, whose self-destructive impulses run dangerously parallel to herown. When her big chance finally comes, Birdie must reconcile the wide-eyed girl she once was with the jaded starlet she has become and try to find herself and her future somewhere in between.Everything Lovely, Effortless, Safe is the story of a young woman's struggle to make her own way in the Technicolor land of make-believe. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
Deelnemer aan LibraryThing Vroege RecensentenJenny Hollowell's boek Everything Lovely, Effortless, Safe was beschikbaar via LibraryThing Early Reviewers.  Actuele discussiesGeenPopulaire omslagen
 Google Books — Bezig met laden...GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: (2.7)
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