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Carregando... City in Love: The New York Metamorphosesde Alex Shakar
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Although billed as a retelling of Ovid's Metamorphoses, the stories are all contemporary New York characters. The whole book, and the style of the stories, is experimental. It’s an ambitious project; sometimes it works and the author achieves something wonderful, fresh, and creative. But other times, it just falls flat. When the author hits on a voice and a character, he does an incredible job with the story. In particular, “The Sky Inside,” in which two characters walk through a natural history museum and use the Planetarium projector to see the stars, was a wonderful musing on the problems of a modern city. On the other hand, “City in Love,” the title story, which was coded through a complicated cuing system, seemed overly clever an too much work for the rather uninteresting musing on modern love. Overall, I’d recommend the book, especially to those interested in experimental narrative structures. ( ) sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
It is the year 1 B.C. and New York City is a place to behold: staggeringly vast, dangerous, seductive, and strange. It is a place where a museum guard inscribes a secret message into the streets of Manhattan; a troubled Queens schoolgirl becomes the most powerful superhero in the city; and an Alphabet City sculptor constructs his ideal woman from eighty-eight rubber bands, a tattered umbrella, and the bones of a fish. The street odysseys of these and other characters amount to passionate struggles for belonging and survival in the city which nurtures, alienates, and mystifies them all. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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