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Somewhere between those happy families that Tolstoy felt were all alike and the unhappy families he claimed were unhappy in their own ways lie the quirky families we all love....With their eccentric relatives always up to crazy shenanigans, this vast fictional genealogy reflects our conflicted embarrassment and affection for the people who raised us....It’s a delightfully odd story about the adult children of a pair of avant-garde performance artists. Since leaving home, Annie and Buster Fang have done everything they can to avoid their parents’ outlandish behavior, but self-destructive wackiness seems to run in their genes. ..the poignant truth Wilson captures beneath the humor of this peculiar family: Our crazy parents’ offenses sometimes loom so large that we don’t realize just what they did for us until it’s too late. Here, in the pages of this droll novel, is a chance to come home and make up. But Mr. Wilson, though he writes wittily about various outré Fang performance pieces, resists putting too much emphasis on the family gimmick. These events have names (the kids’-singing-angers-heckler bit is loftily called “The Sound and the Fury”) and dates and artistic goals. But they also have consequences. That’s what makes this novel so much more than a joke. Mr. Wilson explores the damage inflicted on children raised in an atmosphere that is intentionally confusing. ...Although Mr. Wilson sometimes hints too neatly at where his book is headed, he manages to make the final stages genuinely shocking. This last part of “The Family Fang” packs a wallop because the rest of the book has been so quirky and seemingly light. But the stakes in the Fang war of wills get higher as the book proceeds, and they move from the specific to the universal. A Delightful Portrait Of The Screwball 'Family Fang...That's why it's such a minty fresh delight to open up Kevin Wilson's debut novel, The Family Fang, and feel the revitalizing blast of original thought, robust invention, screwball giddiness....a family story that's out-of-the-box, and funny, and, also, genuinely moving. Wilson's inventive genius never stops for a rest break. ..Wilson might as well have been writing a review for his own strange and wonderful novel, for The Family Fang indeed reads as a work of "choreographed spontaneity" that will linger in your mind long after the mall has closed and the mess in the restaurant has been cleaned up. PremiosDistincionesListas de sobresalientes
La premisa parece una broma: los Fang son una pareja de artistas que se gana la vida haciendo performances, y en ellas utilizan a sus dos hijos. Aos ms tarde, las circunstancias obligan a los vstagos a volver al hogar familiar, y se sorprenden al descubrir que los padres han desaparecido sin dejar rastro. Ha occurido algo o es su performance definitiva? Bajo la forma de una comedia tremendamente original y provocadora, La familia Fang, es una profunda reflexin sobre las familiares nucleares, y disfuncionales, y sobre qu occure cuando se borra la lnea que separa arte y familia. Ser dificl no sentirse identificado. -- Cover, p. [4] No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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La premisa parece una broma: los Fang son una pareja de artistas que se gana la vida haciendo 'performances', y en ellas utilizan a sus dos hijos. Años más tarde, las circunstancias obligan a estos a volver al hogar familiar, y se sorprenden al descubrir que los padres han desaparecido sin dejar rastro. ¿Ha ocurrido algo o se trata de su 'performance' definitiva?
Con la forma de una comedia tremendamente original y provocadora, 'La familia Fang' es una profunda reflexión sobre las familias nucleares, y disfuncionales, y sobre qué ocurre cuando se borra la línea que separa arte y familia. Será difícil no sentirse identificado.