Cliquer sur une vignette pour aller sur Google Books.
Chargement... Dead Languagespar David Shields
Aucun Chargement...
Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. A third of the way into this book I was ready to give up on it. Nothing was happening, time sequence was out of order, characters entered and retreated randomly... It was more like an author's stream of consciousness. I find those very self-indulgent, selfish, and tedious. I did stay with it, though, and eventually sorted out most of the details. It still annoyed me that Shields alternately refers to his mother by name or by simply "Mother", or perhaps it was some other woman he called by name. How are we to know? Was I supposed to be keeping notes in order to keep his characters straight? But in the end, it didn't make any difference. I simply couldn't get that into it, or identify with anyone. It didn't help that other than some place names, there was nothing to give this story feet. There were no time references (I don't even know what ERA it is, but anyway he switches places in the past at will) or little else to allow the reader to locate the story with any sense of reference. I finished the book somewhat wondering, "What was the point?" ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Prix et récompenses
In Dead Languages by David Shields, Jeremy Zorn's mother tries unsuccessfully to coax him into saying "Philadelphia," and his life becomes framed by his unwieldy attempts at articulation. Through family rituals with his word-obsessed parents and sister, failed first love, an ill-fated run for class president, as the only Jewish boy on an otherwise all-black basketball team, all of the passages of Jeremy's life are marked in some way by his stutter and his wildly off-the-mark attempts at a cure. It is only when he enters college and learns his strong-willed mother is dying that he realizes all languages, when used as hiding places for the heart, are dead ones. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
Discussion en coursAucunCouvertures populaires
Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
Est-ce vous ?Devenez un(e) auteur LibraryThing. |