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Carregando... Petropolisde Anya Ulinich
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. So I tried to read this book, I really did. I really wanted to like it, but I could not get past page 100. It was too bizarre, too depressing and just too hard to follow. I hope someone else can love this little book, because I just couldn't. ( ) I liked this a lot. Ulinich manages to weave so many individual characters, settings, and situations into this very cool and atmospheric mosaic—I was pleased at the end how complete the whole she built out of all these parts felt. I'm also partial to her style, warm and droll. This was a sweet book, and a lot of fun.
..Up to this point in the book, Petropolis has the funny, pathetic sweetness of David Sedaris's accounts of childhood. But with the ignorance of a people living in a pile of asbestos, pregnancy was inevitable, and the book darkens... PrêmiosDistinctionsNotable Lists
Sasha Goldberg is the ultimate outsider: she's a chubby, biracial Jewish girl from the Siberian town of Asbestos 2. Her father takes off for the United States, and leaves Sasha to navigate adolescence in a bleak apartment bloc with her overbearing mother. Sasha falls in love with an art school drop-out who lives inside a concrete pipe in the town dump. Following her heart gets her into trouble at home, so she flees Russia as a mail-order bride and lands in suburban Arizona. Sasha manages to escape her Red Lobster-loving fiance? and embarks on a misadventure-filled journey across America in search of her father. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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