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Cargando... MacGregor Tells the Worldpor Elizabeth McKenzie
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I wanted to like this book. I really did. I found it at the library, while searching for a different author. I think the idea of it is really great (young man searching for answers to his mother's death/suicide), however, the story just goes on and on. Few of the characters are memorable. And the one I liked the most, Filipo (a teenager being 'tutored' by the title character) is not fully developed. I admit that I skimmed near the end just to finish the novel. I could feel the author trying to create this quirky character. It did not feel at all organic. This book had a whole lot of potential, but could not really finish. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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The highly acclaimed author of Stop That Girl delivers a masterfully plotted debut novel–at once a mystery of identity, sly literary satire, and coming-of age story–capturing a young man’s impossible and heroic first love. Twenty-two-year-old MacGregor West, orphaned as a boy, is on a quest: to understand the circumstances of his mother’s untimely death. On a foggy San Francisco evening, guided by an old stack of envelopes, Mac finds himself at the mansion of cultural icon Charles Ware, where he encounters the writer’s beautiful and enigmatic daughter, Carolyn, trapped in a fold-up bed. Upon freeing her, Mac plunges headlong into the world of the eccentric Ware family and a love affair with a woman whose murky history may be closely linked to his own. MacGregor Tells the World is a poignant and often hilarious ride through present-day San Francisco, a city brimming with memorable characters who help Mac discover just what story is his to tell. Praise for Elizabeth McKenzie’s Stop That Girl “Elizabeth McKenzie is an accomplished humorist and a developed stylist, and she wastes no time dazzling the reader with her clean direct language, her simple but searing use of metaphor and her unflinching eye.” –The New York Times Book Review “Single-handedly reinvigorate[s] the coming-of-age genre. . . . Here is a writer to watch, and a book to breeze through with glee.” –San Francisco Chronicle No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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