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Cargando... Fireworks (2006)por Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. poor, very meandering tale of alcoholic, lonely man's life, couldn't finish it ( ) Poor Hollis: he's still grieving after his 2yr old son was killed in a car accident, his wife has left him for the summer, and to top that he's suffering from writer's block. Summer is not going well ... A sympathetic portrait of a man on the brink of the destroying himself with self-pity and the bottle and how he pulls himself together. Hollis for all his faults is a likeable feller and despite having a habit of putting his foot in it, you want him to succeed. An enjoyable debut. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Hollis Clayton is in trouble. His wife has decamped for the summer, leaving him to pursue his increasingly overwhelming compulsions: drinking; spying on neighbors; worrying about the fate of an abducted local girl; avoiding his editor, who is on the verge of rejecting his new collection of stories; and confronting as obliquely as possible the recent death of his young son. Meanwhile, he is spending more time with Jack Daniels and a stubbornly persistent stray dog than with anyone else, including his girlfriend Marissa, who has either abandoned him or been abandoned by him, he’s not sure which. A tender and comic portrait of suburban despair, Fireworks details the events of one strange summer in which a man’s troubled soul hangs in the balance. In her perceptive exploration of Hollis’s disintegrating life, Elizabeth Winthrop gives us an unforgettably powerful portrait of an anguished man, one who is both endearingly flawed and vividly real. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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