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Cargando... Slouching Towards Kalamazoo (1983)por Peter De Vries
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This unconventional coming of age story is occasionally amusing rather than really funny, but it holds your interest as its protagonist, who starts in 8th grade by getting his teacher pregnant, proceeds through the next few years of his life. The other characters tend to be a bit one-dimensional, but in interesting ways. The pleasure of the book comes from the protagonist's use of odd words and from the various quotes, allusions, and philosophy obviously but skillfully entwined in the narrative. Overall, a pleasurable world to spend a few hours in. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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It is 1963 in an unnamed town in North Dakota, and Anthony Thrasher is languishing for a second year in eighth grade. Prematurely sophisticated, young Anthony spends too much time reading Joyce, Eliot, and Dylan Thomas but not enough time studying the War of 1812 or obtuse triangles. A tutor is hired, and this "modern Hester Prynne" offers Anthony lessons that ultimately free him from eighth grade and situate her on the cusp of the American sexual revolution. Anthony's restless adolescent voice is perfectly suited to De Vries's blend of erudite wit and silliness-not to mention his fascination with both language and female anatomy-and it propels Slouching Towards Kalamazoo through theological debates and quandaries both dermatological and ethical, while soaring on the De Vriesian hallmark of scrambling conventional wisdom for comic effect. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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