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Cargando... Where things come back : a novel (2011 original; edición 2011)por John Corey Whaley
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. If this hadn't won the Printz, I don't know if I would've finished it, but I'm certainly glad I did because things got more interesting as the book went along. (And I've heard it's even better on a second reading.) My favorite parts were not the main story about the Witter brothers in small-town Arkansas, but the B story about a young missionary's crisis of faith and its subsequent affect on his otherwise average college roommate. There was something [b:Catcher in the Rye|5107|The Catcher in the Rye|J.D. Salinger|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1329189899s/5107.jpg|3036731]-esque about Cullen's teenage malaise, which I think will have huge appeal for teenagers (duh). As a 29-year-old woman, I'm not the target audience for this kind of stuff, so take it with a grain of salt when I say that Cullen's zombie fantasies and talking about himself in the third person mostly bored me. But, overall, I liked it. I'm excited to see what Whaley writes next and I congratulate him on a very promising debut. This is not a good book for the extreme linear thinker. I found it a bit frustrating, but maybe that is because too much internet browsing and magazine reading is making my attention span way too short! This is definitely a mellow story, and will appeal to people who like a quirky plot. In my mind, I pictured the whole thing like a Wes Anderson movie. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Seventeen-year-old Cullen's summer in Lily, Arkansas, is marked by his cousin's death by overdose, an alleged spotting of a woodpecker thought to be extinct, failed romances, and his younger brother's sudden disappearance. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Meanwhile, the crisis of faith spawned by a young missionary’s disillusion in Africa prompts a frantic search for meaning that has far-reaching consequences. As distant as the two stories initially seem, they are woven together through masterful plotting and merge in a surprising and harrowing climax.
This extraordinary tale from a rare literary voice finds wonder in the ordinary and illuminates the hope of second chances. ( )