Edith Konecky (1922–2019)
Autor de Allegra Maud Goldman
Obras de Edith Konecky
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1922-08-01
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2019-03-28
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
Premios
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 4
- También por
- 6
- Miembros
- 155
- Popularidad
- #135,097
- Valoración
- 4.0
- Reseñas
- 4
- ISBNs
- 13
- Idiomas
- 1
In one [game], we formed a vicious circle and, whooping, hurled a volleyball at an unlucky classmate named It who was in the center of the circle, desperately trying to avoid being hit. This was a useful lesson in cruelty, meant, I imagine, to prepare us for the day when we would want to join our fellow townsfolk in stoning the village idiot to death. [p. 19]
If Grandma Goldman ever smiled, she must have done it in the bathroom with the door locked. She had been the undisputed head of her own family, ruling with an iron hand and a mouth full of rocks. [p. 118]
I couldn't help wondering what else lay buried, damned up forever by the circumstances of his life, in my father's genes, cells, chromosomes--wherever it is that talent, and maybe even genius, reside, whimpering for a while before they suffocatge and die. [p. 127]
... what Grandma had seen usually bore little relationship to what I had seen [at a movie]. It was often some peripheral detail buried in a subplot that loomed largest for Grandma. [p. 157]… (más)