Evan Green (1930–1996)
Auteur de Adam's Empire
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Œuvres de Evan Green
A boot full of right arms : adventure in the London-Sahara-Munich World Cup Rally and other motoring marathons (1975) 7 exemplaires
The Big Country (includes A Town Like Alice & Alice to Nowhere) - Volume 2 Rough Living (2008) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
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- Date de naissance
- 1930-05-21
- Date de décès
- 1996-03-16
- Sexe
- male
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- Œuvres
- 13
- Aussi par
- 3
- Membres
- 212
- Popularité
- #104,834
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 7
- ISBN
- 95
- Langues
- 3
- Favoris
- 1
The prose is mostly clear and describes the action well. Only very occasionally is it witty or lyrical, however. The greatest stylistic weakness is really the dialogue, which is often pretty heavy on exposition and often seems unrealistic or clunky. The characterisation is also rather weak, with most of the characters not developing much, and some of the characters' attributes seemingly evaporating as the story progresses. As a consequence, each of them - maybe apart from Adam himself - could be summed up by one word by the end of the story - mad, gullible, impulsive, etc.
I chose to take the problematic politics of the novel as reflective of the time in which it was set. It's certainly the case that women didn't have many choices open to them at that time other than manipulation, compromise or destitution, however many readers might have put the book dow non the basis that it is misogynistic, which would certainly be a fair response, I think. The treatment of Indigenous Australians is stronger, and the depiction of racism, while sometimes harrowing, didn't generally feel gratuitous or exploitative.
I can't seem myself picking up the sequel to this book, but I did enjoy the brief departure from my normal reading habits.… (plus d'informations)