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Cargando... The Post-Birthday World LP (2007 original; edición 2007)por Lionel Shriver
Información de la obraEl mundo después del cumpleaños por Lionel Shriver (2007)
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There's a sense of events playing out in neat, parallel tracks, as if predetermined - which you might want them to do, under certain circumstances. But a bit of chaos is much more fun, both in life and in fiction. The writing is all over the place: cliched, pretentious and, when Shriver relies on using dialogue to explain - for the benefit of American readers? - the recent history of tournament snooker, tragically laboured [...] In alternating chapters, Shriver allows her heroine both futures, and the result is a playful, psychologically acute, and luxuriously textured meditation on the nature of love. It's a tantalizing endeavor that often includes a great deal of repetitive detail. In lesser hands, this technique would fail. But Shriver's adept, simultaneous narratives rarely stumble. Shriver’s previous novel, “We Need to Talk About Kevin,” won Britain’s Orange Prize in 2005. That book — featuring a teenage boy who brings a crossbow to school and kills his classmates — was a riveting, carefully considered meditation on maternal ambivalence. But she seems to have rushed out this new book, churning through tired themes of infidelity and regret without offering fresh insight or even an entertaining story. “The Post-Birthday World” will only leave readers feeling snookered. Pertenece a las series editorialesContenido enDistincionesListas de sobresalientes
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