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David Brooks (3) (1953–)

Autor de The Fern Tattoo

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40+ Obras 185 Miembros 12 Reseñas

Sobre El Autor

David Brooks was born in Toronto, Canada on August 11, 1961. He received a degree in history from the University of Chicago in 1983. After graduation, he worked as a police reporter for the City News Bureau. His other jobs include numerous posts at The Wall Street Journal, a senior editor at The mostrar más Weekly Standard, and a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Atlantic Monthly. He currently is an op-ed columnist for The New York Times since 2003 and a weekly commentator on PBS NewsHour. He is the author of the several books including Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There, On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense, and The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement. He is also the editor of the anthology Backward and Upward: The New Conservative Writing. David Brooks made the New York Times Best Seller List with his title Social Animal: the Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement and The Road to Character. (Publisher Provided) mostrar menos

Obras de David Brooks

The Fern Tattoo (2007) 39 copias
The Conversation (2013) 22 copias
The Book of Sei (1985) 20 copias
Open House (2015) 8 copias
The House of Balthus (1995) 7 copias
Black sea (1997) 5 copias
Napoleon's roads (2016) 5 copias
The Balcony (2008) 5 copias
The Cold Front (1983) 5 copias
The umbrella club (2009) 4 copias

Obras relacionadas

Sudden Fiction International: Sixty Short-Short Stories (1989) — Contribuidor — 213 copias
The Penguin Century of Australian Stories (2000) — Contribuidor — 74 copias
The Best Australian Essays 2010 (2010) — Contribuidor — 23 copias
The Best Australian Stories 2016 (2016) — Contribuidor — 17 copias
The Best Australian Stories 2012 (2012) — Contribuidor — 15 copias
The Best Australian Poems 2017 (2017) — Contribuidor — 15 copias
The best Australian stories 2001 (2001) — Contribuidor — 14 copias
The Best Australian Stories 2014 (2014) — Contribuidor — 13 copias
Urban Fantasies (1985) — Contribuidor — 9 copias

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Conocimiento común

Miembros

Debates

David Brooks and the end of philosophy en Philosophy and Theory (abril 2009)

Reseñas

The Spouse has booked himself a balloon flight over the Hunter Valley for our forthcoming holiday. Not me, no thank you, not since I saw one of those things on fire one morning when I was on my way to work. There was a startling glimpse of naked flame through the trees, and then there it was: landed in one of the paddocks near the market gardens, its passengers at a respectful distance from the blazing silks. The operator at 000 thought I was ‘having her on’ when I rang to report it…

Still, ballooning is a captivating idea, and I was hooked as soon as I saw the cover of The Umbrella Club by David Brooks. Brooks is the author of The Fern Tattoo which I read when it was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin in 2008. It seems he has written another beguiling story in The Umbrella Club.

My first reaction to the puns in the opening paragraph was that UQP’s editors had overlooked a risible spelling mistake on the very first page, where (Private) Axel Glover (in the altogether) is holding ‘a copy of His Majesty’s Enlistment Regulations …discretely over his private parts.’ On reflection, perhaps because I could not believe that an unforgivable error of this magnitude could be made in a passage which must have been read and re-read countless times, I decided that this arresting image signals the ambiguity which characterises Brooks’ style. It was chosen, I thought, to make the reader ponder the meaning of that adjective ‘discrete’, to consider the placement of the Regulations, and to recognise that the sight of Glover in all his glory is one that the narrator cherishes. I still think this is a beaut argument for discrete rather than discreet, even though the homophone trips up the author/editor again on p183 where Edward waits ‘discretely‘ in the shadows and no PoMo mental gymnastics can rescue it.

Discrete or discreet, Axel is an exotic creation and from the outset we can see that Edward is captivated:

To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2010/01/08/the-umbrella-club-by-david-brooks/
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Obras
40
También por
9
Miembros
185
Popularidad
#117,260
Valoración
½ 3.5
Reseñas
12
ISBNs
201
Idiomas
18

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