Timothy Taylor (2)
Auteur de Stanley Park
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- Date de naissance
- 1963
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Canada
- Lieu de naissance
- Venezuela
- Lieux de résidence
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Études
- Queen's University at Kingston
University of Alberta
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- Œuvres
- 6
- Aussi par
- 3
- Membres
- 555
- Popularité
- #44,976
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 16
- ISBN
- 110
- Langues
- 4
- Favoris
- 3
Unfortunately, and I guess inevitably given its subject, it's hopelessly rooted in its own time and place, such that if you’re not au fait with Vancouver circa 1995 a hell of a lot of this story is going to be lost on you. The book is jammed with street names and other left-coast references that will do nothing for non-Vancouverites.
The other issue is the abundance of annoying characters. Our hero, Jeremy, is more or less agreeable, but his Stanley Park-dwelling dad is smug and self-mysterious, and pulling Jez in the other direction is coffee mogul wanker Dante Beale, who is of course supposed to be a PITA but jeez we spend a lot of time in his rancid company. There's also a precocious child, and I can’t stand precocious children.
Stanley Park isn't a bad novel though. It does have something to say and it's stuffed with filthy food porn, even (especially) when things get ultra-locavore in a wonderfully written climactic scene.… (plus d'informations)