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Cargando... Un gran chico (1998)por Nick Hornby
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. A very clever novel, both tender and scabrous, with nearly perfectly drawn characters. Is it awful to say I liked the movie better? I did. It was a good book. I like how Will and Marcus were woven together. As much as they didn't believe they had anything in common I thought they were so similiar. They dealt with a different set of problems but the core of who they were was the same. Both of them a little odd dealing with people that they didn't understand fully and who didn't understand them. Nick Hornby has an amazing way of dealing with depression and suicidal tendencies in an honest but still somehow allowing you to see an amost comical side to all of it. Sharing the thoughts of each "boy" in the story, Hornby summons believable characters who, with a less-deft touch, might otherwise go clunk for all the psychic weight each carries. Sharp, humorous, and unpredictable, the story of Will and Marcus and their mutually redemptive friendship hints that grace still moves among us.
Meisterschaft des Trivialen A follow-up to High Fidelity, British writer Hornby's superb 1996 novel about pop-music obsession, About A Boy (the film rights to which have reportedly been sold for $3 million) is an acerbic, emotionally richer yet no less funny tale. Will (36, single, lonely, in search of a girlfriend and a life) meets Marcus (12, lonely, in search of happiness for himself and his suicidal mother). At first, befriending Marcus is merely an attempt to assuage a guilty conscience brought about by a life of leisure. PremiosListas de sobresalientes
Will Freeman, soltero y de treinta y seis anos, tiene dinero suficiente para vivir sin trabajar y disfruta de mucho tiempo libre. No siente ninguna necesidad de procrear, pero ha descubierto que los hijos democratizan a las mujeres hermosas y esto ha despertado su interes por las madres solteras o separadas. De modo que se apunta a un grupo de autoayuda al que solo asisten padres pocos o madres muchas separados: el SPAT. Para ello, naturalmente, debe fingir que tiene un hijo. Pero, poco importa, a Will se le da bien contar mentiras.Marcus no tiene padre ni amigos, sus estudios no van bien y tampoco recibe demasiada ayuda de su madre. Cuando conoce a Will, cree haber en el al sustituto del padre ausente. Sin embargo, como puede Will, un completo inmaduro, cumplir las funciones de progenitor?La relacion entre ambos personajes nunca sera la de un padre con su a que maduren y se desenvuelvan mejor en sus ambitos individuales, sociales y familiares.Una vez mas, Hornby utiliza las dotes de observacion de que hizo gala en Fiebre en las gradas y el humor agridulce que el lector habia advertido en Alta fidelidad para escribir Erase una vez un padre. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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