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Cargando... The Cloning of Joanna May (1989)por Fay Weldon
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This could be the next step on from Ira Levin's The Stepford Wives. The perfect woman. But this one has intelligence. Its a story of how she leaves her creator, her lover, and her adventures on her way to taking over the world. Its quite amusing to see the sex industry from the point of view of one who has no knowledge of morals. The end of the story is predictable, somewhat disappointing, but actually the only possible end. ( ) Cool premise, bizarre execution. Set in the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster, a 60-year-old divorcee discovers her ex-husband secretly had her cloned 30 years ago. Her four clone daughters, who were implanted in different women and grew up in very different family situations, make the discovery at about the same time. Soul-searching ensues. It should've been fascinating but--alas!--this is one of those stories where all the characters come across as caricatures. Also, the whole book is written in this artificial, disjointed, jarring style that I didn't particularly enjoy. I think Weldon crafted her characters and delivery this way to achieve a certain effect, but personally, I found it unsatisfying.
In her latest novel, Ms. Weldon manages to boot the archenemy, boredom, out of her characters' lives as handily as she does from her readers', and it's a reasonable bet that she's had a good time doing it. Her book is part satire, part social commentary, part comedy of manners, part fantasy, but its true charm is that it ultimately refuses to be anything but itself - which is surely welcome relief to readers who might have begun to fear that dreary minimalist clones would lurk behind every book jacket forever. Contenido enTiene la adaptación
A novel about split personality, about the components of the self and genetic engineering. It tells the fate of Joanna May, who at the age of 60 discovers that she has been cloned and there are in fact four other versions of herself in existence. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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