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Cargando... Bad Haircut: Stories of the Seventies (1994)por Tom Perrotta
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Life is too short to read bad books, is my mantra and one short story into Mr. Perrotta’s collection I had to jump ship. The story in this case was “The Weiner Man” in which a boy goes with his den pack to meet a hotdog company mascot. What could be amusing in someone else’s hands here just ends up reading like dull Boomer memoir with no apparent point. I’m pretty sure there was sex in this story but the author chose not to describe it. Not sure if that was modesty or if he was hoping for fan letters asking about this. Wish I cared more to ask. No. Just…no. Perrotta proves again that his writing is likeable if not very impactful in this book of loosely connected stories about growing up in the 1970s. While I didn’t enjoy Bad Haircut as much as Perrotta’s later novels, I still devoured it more or less in one sitting and then tossed it aside. It was like a good lunch: I enjoyed the experience but wouldn’t recall it much by the next day. Almost more like a collection of short stories than a novel, Bad Haircuts follows the coming-of-age adventures of Buddy from a nine-year-old Cub Scout to a college sophomore. Serious problems like racial tensions or a friend’s teen pregnancy are mixed with episodes that are less serious—a talented player quits the football team over principle; a fifty-year-old neighbor who lives with his mother loses her and hangs around the house a lot. To the extent that there is a unifying thread here, it is Buddy’s growing—but always tenuous—awareness and understanding of the people and events around him. The understanding grows with Buddy as he ages throughout the book; when he is nine, he describes his mother’s friendship with the Wiener Man who passes through town, and when he is thirteen, it’s a friend who steals from his stepfather’s store. All of the stories are compelling, and though it’s not a happy book—Buddy does not describe personal joys or triumphs—it’s not depressing to read. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Tom Perrotta made his literary debut with his short story collection Bad Haircut, earning critical praise and comparisons to Salinger, Carver, and Roth by taking readers to New Jersey in the 1970s as a boy named Buddy struggles with the timeless mysteries of sex, death, parents-and of course, bad haircuts. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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