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Ladataan... Everyone's Reading BastardTekijä: Nick Hornby
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. Not worth the $2. ( ) This is a work of short fiction about a divorcee whose vengeful wife details his many shortcomings in her weekly newspaper column (titled "Bastard"). As usual, Hornby's characters are richly rendered (warts and all) and though this finishes on what feels like a half-note, it does draw a target on a culture -- and even a news media -- which has become obsessed with oversharing. As a fan of short fiction, I'm thrilled to see shorter works from well-known authors published as inexpensive ebooks, though this one comes with a caveat; $1.99 isn't a lot by book standards, but I read the 20-page story in 15 minutes, so you might want to weigh the cost/benefit ratio. Hornby fans will like Bastard, but those new to him might want to read High Fidelity or About a Boy for a better insight into his talents. Nick Hornby writes very well about relationships, or, rather, he writes the relationships well, particularly when they're falling apart, and what happens to those relationships around the ones which are falling apart. This little short is no different -- the interactions between Charlie and his kids, Charlie and his co-workers, Charlie and his mom, and Charlie and Helena the B**ch are all very well drawn. The story ends a little abruptly, but was good entertainment along the way. ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
Bestselling author Nick Hornby ("High Fidelity," "Fever Pitch," "About a Boy," "Juliet, Naked") is a virtuoso at love gone wrong. In his new short story, "Everyone's Reading Bastard," Hornby paints a wincingly comic picture of just how messy modern relationships can become, as his characters hit delightful new lows of cruelty, misery, and pettiness. Newspaper columnist Elaine Harris has always written about her life with husband Charlie. Her editor and her legions of readers count on full disclosure from her, but what no one—least of all Charlie—anticipates, only a week after the couple decide to end their marriage, is the speed and inventiveness with which she begins to try him in the court of public opinion. On Monday morning, it's a smirk by a forgettable former lover that first clues him in that something's wrong. Then, before he's settled in at his desk, another co-worker salutes Charlie with the title of Elaine's new column: "Bastard!" A quick check online leads him to the column, the subtitle leaving little doubt as to what he's in for: "Life with an Ex. He's Gone but Not Forgotten." Charlie's only hope is that Elaine will get bored and abandon the weekly column—a colorful litany of his failures as a partner, father, breadwinner, and lover—or that it won't catch on. But soon enough it's a multimedia feeding frenzy, and everyone's reading Bastard! And for Charlie, that's a bitch. Only a storyteller like Hornby—who’s given us so many unforgettable novels of comedy and heartbreak—could conceive of an average guy trying to survive an ex’s wrath gone viral. Witty and wise, outlandish and human, his latest rollicking account of love’s fallout should be instructive: Sometimes no one wins. Sorry, Charlie. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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