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Carregando... The Transcriptionist (2014)de Amy Rowland
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I finished this book yesterday, coming in just under the year's end. And it was a great way to end a rough year. This is my favorite read of the year. The writing is tight, the protagonist was flawed, but likeable and believable, and I recognized a lot of the NYC references which certainly added to my enjoyment. ( ) I tend to not have the patience for B&N table display books that fall into the literary category of "people thinking about things." But here you have Amy Rowland thinking in lovely words about journalistic integrity, quarter-life crises, being eaten by lions, and about parsing meaning from words themselves when they swarm in meaningless numbers. The Transcriptionist will reward a more patient reader than I happen to be, but I think this one is probably worth circling back around to. Esta resenha foi escrita no âmbito dos Primeiros Resenhistas do LibraryThing. A literary novel about a transcriptionist for a major New York City newspaper. Comfortable in her repetitive life, Lena gets an awakening one day when she transcribes a story about a woman mauled by lions at the zoo. The novel is mesmerizing and beautifully written. Lena's awakening is powerful and relatable. Esta resenha foi escrita no âmbito dos Primeiros Resenhistas do LibraryThing. It was a unique read but a bit boring at places. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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HTML:“Haunting and provocative . . . Rowland’s writing is compelling and masterful.” —Delia Ephron, author of The Lion Is In Once, there were many transcriptionists at the Record, a behemoth New York City newspaper, but new technology has put most of them out of work. So now Lena, the last transcriptionist, sits alone in a room—a human conduit, silently turning reporters’ recorded stories into print—until the day she encounters a story so shocking that it shatters the reverie that has become her life. This exquisite novel, written by an author who spent more than a decade as a transcriptionist at the New York Times, asks probing questions about journalism and ethics, about the decline of the newspaper and the failure of language. It is also the story of a woman’s effort to establish her place in an increasingly alien and alienating world. “The Transcriptionist is suffused with prescient insight into journalism, ethics, and alienation . . . A thought provoking, original work.” —New York Journal of Books “Rowland seems that rare thing, the naturally gifted novelist . . . [She] deftly maps a very specific kind of urban loneliness, the inner ache of the intelligent, damaged soul who prefers the company of ideas and words to that of people . . . That urge—to make words holy—is at the heart of this novel’s strange, sad beauty.” —The Washington Post “The Transcriptionist holds many pleasures . . . [and] can be read through many lenses . . . Rowland plays with the notions of truth and reliability . . . Sharp and affecting.” —The New York Times Book Review “A strange, mesmerizing novel . . . about the decline of newspapers and the subsequent loss of humanity—and yes, these are related.” —Booklist, starred review “Ambitious and fascinating . . . Disturbing and powerful.” —Library Journal “Entering the city Rowland creates, with its tightly strung dialogue and soulful, lonely citizens, is a memorable experience.” —The Boston Globe “Unforgettable. Written with such delight, compassion, and humanity it’s newsworthy.”—Alex Gilvarry, author of From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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