amazing Boys, Michael Chabon
A novel in the universe shifted and slightly foutraque that ends not tired.
A long and difficult day for Grady Tripp, Professor of Letters at an American university. Sentimental point of view, we've seen better: his wife leaves him, his mistress, also married to the president, tells him she is pregnant and the young and beautiful Hannah turns her around more than ever. Professionally, this is not simple: for years he struggled on his latest novel, Boys amazing, a colossal job that he fails to bring an end point and which, by its large size, may well never find the way of bookstores. Furthermore, he was still not shown his work at Teddy Crabtree, his oldest friend and publisher, whose career was flagging. It's also not counting on the presence strangely morbid one of his students, James Leer, an apprentice writer some talent but the Brink existential. Add to that the assassination of the President's dog, stealing a coat that belonged to Marilyn Monroe, a Passover meal that turns into a nightmare family, all under the influence of alcohol, seal, or both!
The novel starts with great breath and vitality, Chabon (which we just talk here ) engaged with communicative joy to play vaudeville and modern literature, focusing on his hero, loser sublime, when he manages to avoid the blows of fate, headed straight to new problems. Writing is Always tense, packed with irony. Dialogues and descriptions sting, entertain and create a world gradually a little crazy. But over the pages, while the characters seem to struggle against a hangover every moment, the pace of the narrative hard cake too, sometimes gets lost in the vicissitudes redundant, accessories and intrigue to lose interest. Although the digressions on writing and film in particular, are pleasant, they fail to keep the reader awake. Too bad, because all this was a good start. At the same time, the concern of the author is ultimately the same as that of his character: find a purpose, advancing the plot. The setting does not save however abyss reader boredom. It is unfortunate, for it was gone ...
A book read by a partnership organized by BOB (thank you once again for their amazing job) and published by Robert Laffont.
PS: This novel was adapted in 2000 into a film by Curtis Hanson. I saw this movie but I have no memory.
A novel in the universe shifted and slightly foutraque that ends not tired.
A long and difficult day for Grady Tripp, Professor of Letters at an American university. Sentimental point of view, we've seen better: his wife leaves him, his mistress, also married to the president, tells him she is pregnant and the young and beautiful Hannah turns her around more than ever. Professionally, this is not simple: for years he struggled on his latest novel, Boys amazing, a colossal job that he fails to bring an end point and which, by its large size, may well never find the way of bookstores. Furthermore, he was still not shown his work at Teddy Crabtree, his oldest friend and publisher, whose career was flagging. It's also not counting on the presence strangely morbid one of his students, James Leer, an apprentice writer some talent but the Brink existential. Add to that the assassination of the President's dog, stealing a coat that belonged to Marilyn Monroe, a Passover meal that turns into a nightmare family, all under the influence of alcohol, seal, or both! The novel starts with great breath and vitality, Chabon (which we just talk here ) engaged with communicative joy to play vaudeville and modern literature, focusing on his hero, loser sublime, when he manages to avoid the blows of fate, headed straight to new problems. Writing is Always tense, packed with irony. Dialogues and descriptions sting, entertain and create a world gradually a little crazy. But over the pages, while the characters seem to struggle against a hangover every moment, the pace of the narrative hard cake too, sometimes gets lost in the vicissitudes redundant, accessories and intrigue to lose interest. Although the digressions on writing and film in particular, are pleasant, they fail to keep the reader awake. Too bad, because all this was a good start. At the same time, the concern of the author is ultimately the same as that of his character: find a purpose, advancing the plot. The setting does not save however abyss reader boredom. It is unfortunate, for it was gone ...
A book read by a partnership organized by BOB (thank you once again for their amazing job) and published by Robert Laffont.
PS: This novel was adapted in 2000 into a film by Curtis Hanson. I saw this movie but I have no memory.
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