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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Darkly amusing at first, then it gradually just becomes purely dark. The description of the brownstone Lowell buys is fantastic. Unsatisfying ending. ( ) A young couple move to New York and settle into an aimless 9-5 life, it's monotony broken only by gin and Speed Racer reruns. When Lowell Lake decides to turn his life around by purchasing a grotesque fixer upper in Bed-Stuy, bleak existential hilarity ensues. Written in the early 70's, the prose remains fresh. Very funny, hopeless and highly recommended. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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L.J. Davis’s 1971 novel, A Meaningful Life, is a blistering black comedy about the American quest for redemption through real estate and a gritty picture of New York City in collapse. Just out of college, Lowell Lake, the Western-born hero of Davis’s novel, heads to New York, where he plans to make it big as a writer. Instead he finds a job as a technical editor, at which he toils away while passion leaks out of his marriage to a nice Jewish girl. Then Lowell discovers a beautiful crumbling mansion in a crime-ridden section of Brooklyn, and against all advice, not to mention his wife’s will, sinks his every penny into buying it. He quits his job, moves in, and spends day and night on demolition and construction. At last he has a mission: he will dig up the lost history of his house; he will restore it to its past grandeur. He will make good on everything that’s gone wrong with his life, and he will even murder to do it. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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