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Carregando... Crocodile Soup: A Novel (original: 1998; edição: 2002)de Julia Darling (Autor)
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. My initial response to Crocodile Soup was "nice but not layered," Jeanette Winterson-lite, with all the trappings of "we're a dysfunctional family" novel. I liked the novel, but as I read I couldn't quite figure out why this book had been long-listed for the Orange Prize. Nevertheless, I kept on reading. In fact, I couldn't put the book down but read it in one sitting to the deep distress of my garden and my dogs. By the end, I figured out why the book made the Orange Prize long list. Don't worry - no spoilers here. Darling writes with wit and deftly blends pathos and humor without being heavy-handed in the process. If you liked Kate Atkinson's Behind the Scenes at the Museum, you'll like this book as well. Four and a half thumbs up (if I had four and a half thumbs). sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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Narrated by the central heroine, Gert, a curator in a northern museum, this story is interwoven with flashbacks to her eccentric and often surreal childhood. She had a hopelessly vain mother, a father constantly away at his African crocodile farm and a twin brother who becomes a Buddhist monk. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Google Books — Carregando... GênerosClassificação decimal de Dewey (CDD)823.914Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999Classificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos E.U.A. (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia:
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The author is a good writer with an interesting, staccato-like style.
But it's a bit like eating popcorn when you're hungry. You take one bite, then another and another and each taste is good, but somehow it doesn't add up to be truly filling.
I simply didn't come to care about the characters, and the pattern of one quick sentence after another, however interesting in and of itself, didn't add up to a compelling story. ( )