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Cargando... Palms Are Not Trees After All (2008)por Tara Deal
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Esta reseña ha sido escrita para Sorteo de miembros LibraryThing. If you're the sort of person who likes most of the short stories in The New Yorker, then you'll probably like this book. It concerns a young couple, Scott and Kate, who vacation on a tropical island. Throughout the book, Scott subtly (perhaps unconsciously) tortures Kate. I read the book straight through, hoping Kate would somehow escape. But this is an existentialist book - the depressing sort of existentialism that recognizes no joy in either the small or the large things of life - so everything ends up pretty much as it began, with no lessons learned nor wonders appreciated.A minor annoyance is that the book does not set spoken dialogue in quotations marks, which I found distracting. I suspect there are readers out there who will love this book, but I am not one of them. It wasn't a waste of time, but it's not worth reading more than once. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Arriving at an island resort, Scott and Kate make the acquaintance of an older couple, the Griffins, already tanning on the beach. When Scott agrees to do the Griffins a favor, he sets in motion a series of encounters and dilemmas--both between the two couples and within them. Scott believes it will be an adventure; Kate doesn't like the sound of it. There's something mysterious about the situation. Everyone's language hides secrets. Relying on the rhythms of poetry, Palms Are Not Trees After All is a story about exploration and accommodation, about deciding which stories travel, which to tell. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The book is written in a unique, poetic style that I enjoyed although I found the lack of quotation marks confusing at times. However, the narration is very detached and I found it hard to care much about any of the characters or what happened to them. ( )