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Comprend les noms: Emily Fox Gordon

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The Best American Essays 2014 (2014) — Contributeur — 165 exemplaires

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Date de naissance
1948
Sexe
female
Nationalité
USA
Lieux de résidence
Houston, Texas, USA
Relations
Sher, George (husband)
Prix et distinctions
Guggenheim Fellowship (General Nonfiction, 2014)

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Signalé
lulaa | 1 autre critique | Sep 14, 2019 |
I had to literally throw it across the room, it made me so mad.
 
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earthforms | 1 autre critique | Feb 2, 2014 |
I could not finish this book and I had to literally throw it across the room, it made me so mad. I hate when "self-indulgent" is used to describe art of any sort because I want people to create their art for themselves first, not who the audience might be. That said, this was the most pointless, self-indulgent piece of poo I have ever attempted to read. Maybe the end had some huge revelation, but I physically couldn't make myself finish.
 
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wwtct | 1 autre critique | Jun 21, 2011 |
There were some inspired moments of academic satire here, but the book overall felt too effortful. It's difficult to do this genre exceptionally well, but it doesn't seem that difficult to do it in a readable and benignly amusing style. Since authors of books like these know their audience is primarily made up of people who will "get" academic satire (i.e., academics), they merely have to pepper otherwise uninteresting narratives with witty barbs about university life, its oddities and its eccentrics. Gordon does this well enough, but it feels workmanlike.

Characters were underdeveloped; plot was fairly nonexistent and ended with a (very odd) whimper. The book suffers from the same problem that plagues the main character, a failed author: "Her publisher packaged the books as a trilogy ... which was duly hailed as 'acid,' 'biting,' and 'caustic.' ... [Later] she found she'd lost access to whatever capacity it was that had called forth all those low-pH adjectives." It Will Come to Me is far from biting; instead, it offers a gummy nibble.
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sansmerci | 3 autres critiques | Jun 12, 2011 |

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Membres
269
Popularité
#85,899
Évaluation
3.2
Critiques
8
ISBN
11

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