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Cargando... Heartland (2018)por Ana Simo
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I was inclined to love Heartland if only because it’s 75-year-old Simo’s debut novel, but then it made me love it all the more when it performed the amazing feat of surprising me on every page — for its truthfulness, and for its humor. It's a book that mixes shock and humor, but it's not shock humor. The writing is lovely. I felt as if I was being told a story by a wonderful human being and I suspect I was. ( ) I can't help but compare this to another recent political shock satire, [b:The Sellout|22237161|The Sellout|Paul Beatty|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1403430899s/22237161.jpg|41610676], (a very high bar) and it just doesn't hold up. In Beatty's book, the shocks are tightly woven into the narrative (really, they ARE the narrative) and serve a very clear purpose, but here they seem to be there just for shock's sake itself. Although the book intends to be a political critique of (I think) western patriarchal values (which can use all the critiquing it can get) the plot is so loose and the purpose so vague that the message is lost. Since the characters in satires aren't meant to be 'real' and are more like commedia del arte figures, the plot, structure and message have to do all the heavy lifting themselves, and they were just too weak for me here. On a sentence and scene level I liked the book, but it just didn't hang together. It feels like the first draft of what could be a good book. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
In a word-drunk romp through an alternate, pre-apocalyptic United States, Ana Simo's fiction debut, Heartland, is the uproarious story of a thwarted writer's elaborate revenge on the woman who stole her lover, blending elements of telenovela, pulp noir, and dystopian satire. There's only one solution for a nasty case of writer's block, and that's murder. Specifically, that of one Mercy McCabe, a cunning SoHo art dealer who was once our Latina narrator's rival for the scrumptious Bebe. When she discovers that McCabe has squandered Bebe's affections after stealing her away, revenge is not enough: McCabe must confess her guilt, sentence herself, and beg for her own execution, Soviet-style. In the all-too-terrifyingly-familiar America of Heartland, the inconceivable has become ordinary: corruption and greed at the top have led to mass starvation in the heartland; hordes of refugees have escaped from resettlement camps and attack the cities; a puritanical Caliphate has toppled Constantinople, with America in its sights. Meanwhile, escaping her New York life in disguise, our heroine lures McCabe to her home turf: a hilltop house in the Great Plains where her parents worked as domestic servants. Her nemesis, though, is slippery, and McCabe disappears, threatening to ruin a homicidal masterplan so detailed as to be akin to love. Heartland is a hilarious, genre-defying debut that confronts taboos of race, assimilation, and sex through a high-voltage tale of love, language, and revenge. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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