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Carregando... The Pink Hotel (2011)de Anna Stothard
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Una joven de diecisiete años se escapa de su casa en Londres para ir a Los Ángeles y asistir al funeral de su madre, Lily, que la abandonó cuando tenía apenas tres años. Tras robar una maleta llena de cartas, ropa y fotografías del dormitorio de su madre, situado en la última planta del Hotel Rosa de Venice Beach, la joven se pasa el verano recorriendo Los Ángeles, un Los Ángeles muy alejado de los tópicos de sol, playa y glamour, para devolver fotografías y cartas de amor a los hombres que conocieron a Lily. A medida que descubre cosas sobre el pasado de ésta e intenta reconstruir su vida, va cuestionándose su propia identidad. It's an interesting premise, but I kept thinking it would work better as an indie movie than as a novel. The picaresque nature of it would lend itself to film, and really not enough happens for a whole book. I was not wowed by the writing in this one, either. But I did like the main character, and her father. It's an interesting premise, but I kept thinking it would work better as an indie movie than as a novel. The picaresque nature of it would lend itself to film, and really not enough happens for a whole book. I was not wowed by the writing in this one, either. But I did like the main character, and her father. Lily is dead. Lily’s daughter (I can find no other name for her) knows little about her mother. She sneaks into the pink hotel her mother ran for her mother’s wake. Impulsively, she steals her mother’s red suitcase. And thus begins the adventure, the noir mystery that is this book. Mystery is a solid one-word summary of this story. Lily’s daughter doesn’t know much about her mother. Lily’s daughter’s dad doesn’t know much about Lily’s daughter. Lily’s daughter doesn’t know much about herself. She wanders around the pink hotel and the other places important to her mother and gets to know a little about the mother she never knew and the people her mother loved and even a little about herself. I liked this book very much. The Pink Hotel by the young author Anna Stothard is just one rung up from a YA novel. A young woman arrives from London to attend the funeral of her mother whom she has hardly known, and begins a search for her father and people who can tell her more about her mother. This search, and the structure of the story, is conveniently facilitated by her theft of a suitcase which contains some of her mothers' personal belongings and letters. Each item or letter is the peg for another adventure. The setting of the story, and the backdrop of her search is the wild, lawless scene of Los Angeles of the US, as the story unfolds beginning with a sex-and-drugs lecherous party in her mother's the private apartment at the Pink Hotel. The novel has all the characteristics of a badly written, style and thoughtless bravura by an adolescent author discovered by an editor who needs to score with a talent-in-the-bud. It is a stir-fry of sex, drugs, expletives and brainless story.
The Pink Hotel is about another teenager, who flies from London to Los Angeles to discover more about her biological mother, Lily, who has died young....Stothard is at her most acute when observing the people inhabiting Tinseltown; having transported her English heroine there, it's a pity not to see more of the movie business. Better at comedy than anomie, she has an ear for a distinctive phrase (as when describing "the edgy, watery sound of teenage girls laughing") and dialogue, although her ending feels in need of a Ross Macdonald-type twist. This touching, convoluted love-story is shot through with a distinctive talent, but it is the second novel of a writer still teetering on the edge of the adult world. Next time, readers will hope she is fully engaged with it. Pertence à série publicadadetebe (24272) Prêmios
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HTML: A seventeen-year-old London girl flies to Los Angeles for the funeral of her mother Lily, from whom she was separated in her childhood. After stealing a suitcase of letters, clothes and photographs from her mum's bedroom at the top of a hotel on Venice Beach, the girl spends her summer travelling around Los Angeles in a bid to track down the men who knew her mother. As she discovers more about Lily's past and tries to re-enact her life, she comes to question the foundations of her own personality. The Pink Hotel, Anna Stothard's stunning second novel after the critical and commercial success of Isabel and Rocco, is a tale about finding love in the most unlikely of places, and how sometimes you can only know who you are by discovering who you are not. .Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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