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Cargando... Beautiful Ruins: A Novel (2012 original; edición 2013)por Jess Walter
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Abril de 1962. Dee Moray, una bella actriz estadounidense de veintidós años, llega en barco, misteriosamente sola, al muelle de Porto Vergogna, al sur de Génova. Allí decide hospedarse en el pequeño hotel que regenta Pasquale, e no menos joven heredero de una modesta familia de restauradores italianos, donde conocerá a Alvis Bender, un novelista de mediana edad de cierto prestigio en los círculos literarios norteamericanos.
Ruins constitutes a departure for Walter, another unplowed field, and he harrows it straight and true, turning up the fertile humus of the culture’s soiled psyche. Beautiful Ruins collides its broad range of characters in unexpected, unique ways, and the wonderful light touch of the satire makes them eminently believable. Unlike the Juvenalian satirists, whose righteous indignation sometimes results in flat, two-dimensional, cardboard characterizations, Walter’s people inspire sympathy, belief, even a little self-examination. Am I like this? Do I have any qualities that resemble the ones I’m reading about here? If I do, where do I get help? Jess Walter has written a novel that sprawls on the lawn, looks up fondly at the achingly blue American sky and gazes into the deep humor of our collective human condition. That’s what good satire does—it reminds us who we really are. Humans. Walter is simply great on how we live now, and — in this particular book — on how we lived then and now, here and there. “Beautiful Ruins” is his Hollywood novel, his Italian novel and his Pacific Northwestern novel all braided into one: an epic romance, tragicomic, invented and reported (Walter knows his “Cleopatra” trivia), magical yet hard-boiled (think García Márquez meets Peter Biskind), with chapters that encompass not just Italy in the ’60s and present-day Hollywood, but also Seattle and Britain and Idaho, plot strands unfolding across the land mines of the last half-century — an American landscape of vice, addiction, loss and heartache, thwarted careers and broken dreams. It is also a novel about love: amorous love, filial love, parental love and the deep, sustaining love of true friendship.... His balanced mixture of pathos and comedy stirs the heart and amuses as it also rescues us from the all too human pain that is the motor of this complex and ever-evolving novel. Any reservations the reader might have about another book about Hollywood, about selling one’s soul (or someone else’s, and pocketing the change) will probably be swept aside by this high-wire feat of bravura storytelling. Walter is a talented and original writer. This novel is a standout not just because of the inventiveness of its plot, but also because of its language. Jess Walter is essentially a comic writer: Sometimes he's asking readers to laugh at the human condition; sometimes he's inviting us to just plain laugh. Pertenece a las series editorialesHarper Perennial Olive Editions (2015 Olive) PremiosDistincionesListas de sobresalientes
Esta novela narra 50 años en la vida de Debra Moore: desde su juventud en sus inicios como actriz cuando era conocida como Dee Moray y llega al resort decrépito de Pasquale en Porto Vergogna en abril de 1962, hasta sus últimos días en 2012, ya como una a No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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