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Cargando... Holding Still for as Long as Possible (2009)por Zoe Whittall
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I wasn't liking this much until about two thirds of the way through, but somehow by the end I was liking it a lot. It looks like it's going to be yet another book about people being mean to one another for no reason except that's the human condition, doncha know, but then sometimes instead of resenting each other for no reason at all they decide to love each other for no reason at all, and whoops, suddenly you have high literary fiction where people are a bit optimistic about the human condition. ( ) I really wanted to like this book but it mostly fell flat for me. As my partner reflected back to me after I described the book: it sounds like you are so starved for queer content you will finish a bad book just because you see yourself in it. I will probably try to find more queer themed fiction that I find to be better written/more interesting. One positive for me was that the book didn't really have a clear trajectory or resolution. I don't always enjoy that but in this case I did. I completely enjoyed this. It was well-written and strong, and the book left me wanting to know more about the characters and their lives beyond the book. Suffice to say, this thoroughly engrossed me every day as I read it on the subway, and Zoe Whittall remains one of my new favourite Canadian writers (folks should also check out Bottle Rocket Hearts!). sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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In this robust, elegantly plotted, and ultimately life-affirming novel, Zoe Whittall presents a dazzling portrait of the Millennial Generation-the twenty-five-year olds who grew up on anti-anxiety meds, text-messaging each other truncated emotional reactions, unsure of what's public and what's private. Holding Still explores an unusual love triangle involving Billy, a former teen idol, now an anxiety-ridden agoraphobic; Josh, a shy transgendered paramedic who travels the city patching up damaged bodies; and Amy, a fashionable filmmaker coping with her first broken heart. With this extraordinary novel, Whittall gives us startlingly real portraits of three unforgettable characters and proves herself to be one of our most talented writers. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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