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Jervey Tervalon

Autor de The Cocaine Chronicles

9+ Obras 226 Miembros 5 Reseñas

Sobre El Autor

Jervey Tervalon is an award winning poet, screenwriter and dramatist. His debut novel Understand This, won the 1994 New Voices Award from the Quality Paperback Book Club. He has contributed to The Los Angeles Times, Details and other publications. He lives in California with his wife and child and mostrar más teaches creative writing at California State University at Los Angeles. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

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Obras de Jervey Tervalon

The Cocaine Chronicles (2005) — Editor; Contribuidor — 68 copias
Dead above Ground (2000) 44 copias
Understand This (1994) 30 copias
Monster's Chef: A Novel (2014) 28 copias
Lita: A Novel (2003) 19 copias
Living for the City (1998) 11 copias
Serving Monster (2011) 1 copia

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The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2023 (2023) — Contribuidor — 19 copias

Etiquetado

Conocimiento común

Nombre canónico
Tervalon, Jervey
Fecha de nacimiento
1958-10-23
Género
male
Nacionalidad
USA
Lugares de residencia
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Miembros

Reseñas

I can't say I much enjoyed reading this book. What mostly kept me reading was that I told myself that I would understand it all in the end, that somehow it would all be explained. The ending offered little explanation of Monster or his motivations or anything really. As the pages went by, I felt like I knew and understood the main character less and less. But for all of that, I have to say I really enjoyed the style in which it was written. Not a bad book at all, perhaps just not my cup of tea.
 
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bgnbrooks | Oct 8, 2015 |
Lita - the strong, in your face, make no excuses female character is to be liked. There were more humorous scenes in this novel as compared to "Dead Above Ground". For example: When Lita slaps Aunt Dot so hard it sends her to the ground (she deserved it). Throwing the oyster loaf all around the hospital room and the nurse having to break it up (page 136-137) FUNNY, or at the funeral when it's revealed that Gloria (Stepmother) has a will claiming ownership of the house, but rather than confront Gloria themselves they tell Aunt Dot whom takes care of it as they pull away from the church in the hearse (page 188-189) HILLARIOUS! I really enjoyed this book and "Dead Above Ground". I look forward to more from this author.… (más)
 
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Onnaday | Dec 30, 2007 |
Could't get into it or releate.
 
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sunshine608 | Oct 9, 2007 |
I was struggling to finish this book. Only because I read "Dead Above Ground" and it's sequel "Lita" first, I wanted to go back and read his debut novel. Tervlon has definately grown as a writer. It might have been strengthened by sticking with fewer narrators. A strong start for Tervalon, who has since moved into period fiction about New Orleans. The story is tragic and hopeful and insightful and sad all at once. The book, like life, has its melodramatic moments, but also moments of humor and lots of sympathetic insight into a host of interesting people trying, with varying degrees of success, to make the best of their lives. The most interesting character in the book was Crackhead Rika, and is shown to have quickly shed her privileged background to become be a hardened femme fatale figure. Unfortunately, her backstory feels rather incomplete, and as she's a pivotal figure in the narrative, it's a pity Tervalon didn't devote a little more time to her story.… (más)
½
 
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Onnaday | Jun 2, 2006 |

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Obras
9
También por
3
Miembros
226
Popularidad
#99,470
Valoración
3.9
Reseñas
5
ISBNs
25

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