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Chargement... You Remind Me of Me: A Novel (édition 2005)par Dan Chaon
Information sur l'oeuvreYou Remind Me of Me par Dan Chaon
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. L'histoire est sombre et intéressante. Mais la construction du livre est déroutante, tellement l'auteur s'est plu à faire des retours en arrière permanent, mélangeant les périodes, à tel point que je me suis lassée assez vite. Voulant démontrer comment ses personnages vivaient, avaient tel ou tel caractère, il en fait trop, et toujours dans le désordre. Je suis allée jusqu'au bout de l'histoire, parce que j'avais fini tout de même par m'attacher à quelques uns de ses personnages, mais ce livre aurait certainement gagné en qualité et en clarté avec une autre manière de mener la narration. ( )
Dan Chaon's writing has grown darker and deeper with time, and his new book, the beautifully disquieting ''You Remind Me of Me,'' is no exception. It more than fulfills the promise of his story collection ''Among the Missing,'' which was a finalist for a National Book Award in 2001..... But for Chaon, whose subject is often the extraordinary fates of otherwise ordinary, anonymous people, these are artifacts -- a piece of flint, a shard of pottery -- from which he constructs a civilization. Prix et récompensesDistinctions
With his critically acclaimedAmong the MissingandFitting Ends, award-winning author Dan Chaon proved himself a master of the short story form. He is a writer, observes theChicago Tribune, who can “convincingly squeeze whole lives into a mere twenty pages or so.” Now Chaon marshals his notable talents in his much-anticipated debut novel. You Remind Me of Mebegins with a series of separate incidents: In 1977, a little boy is savagely attacked by his mother’s pet Doberman; in 1997 another little boy disappears from his grandmother’s backyard on a sunny summer morning; in 1966, a pregnant teenager admits herself to a maternity home, with the intention of giving her child up for adoption; in 1991, a young man drifts toward a career as a drug dealer, even as he hopes for something better. With penetrating insight and a deep devotion to his characters, Dan Chaonexplores the secret connections that irrevocably link them. In the process he examines questions of identity, fate, and circumstance: Why do we become the people that we become? How do we end up stuck in lives that we never wanted? And can we change the course of what seems inevitable? In language that is both unflinching and exquisite, Chaon moves deftly between the past and the present in the small-town prairie Midwest and shows us the extraordinary lives of “ordinary” people. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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