Pamela Erens
Auteur de The Virgins
A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: Author Pamela Erens at the 2016 Texas Book Festival. By Larry D. Moore, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=52968345
Œuvres de Pamela Erens
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 20th century
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Pays (pour la carte)
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
Maplewood, New Jersey, USA - Études
- Yale University
- Professions
- novelist
editor, Glamour magazine - Relations
- Jonnathan Ratner (husband), Abraham Erens Ratner (son), Hanna Erens Ratner (Daughter)
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 7
- Membres
- 355
- Popularité
- #67,468
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 22
- ISBN
- 26
- Langues
- 1
So far, so ordinary.
What makes this novel worth reading is the way in which Pamela Erens combines (hyper)realism with a poetic language which bathes the most mundane of details in a warm glow, gradually fuelling the narrative's intensity. "The Virgins" reminded me of Eugenides's "The Virgin Suicides" but, without the latter's quasi-surreal touches, it is much more believable. This novel is a lyrical meditation on loss - not just of virginity, but of childhood, innocence, friends, family ties and, ultimately, life itself.… (plus d'informations)