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Chargement... The Outside Worldpar Barry Dempster
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Set in 1966 in a Toronto suburb, The Outside World follows Robinson Tedley, a teenager, whose mother Florence, an agoraphobic, spends most of her time peering at the neighbours from her living room window, whose mentally challenged sister Lissy wants nothing more than to be outside in sunshine and whose father Ed is perpetually oblivious to the tensions within his home. How can Robbie take care of his mother and his roaming sister when he's got so much to contend with in the outside world? Girls, love, sex, school. Bullies and friendships and growing pains, the force of his own fears and anger. Pressing against Robbie's own difficulties are the troubles of a conservative 1950s mainstream, poised to resist the emergence of a sexual revolution, women's liberation, the civil rights movement and war protests. A dark and engaging coming-of-age story that may remind readers of Miriam Toews's A Complicated Kindness and Russell Banks's Rule of the Bone Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Although I'm usually a big fan of the experimental Pedlar Press (and with reviews of several more books from them coming here soon), I must confess that Barry Dempster's The Outside World is a rare misstep for them, a book I never even ended up finishing because at a certain point I just found it such a chore to continue. Part of a growing trend of genteel coming-of-age stories so inconsequential as to almost not even exist, certainly Dempster hits all the right notes when it comes to this genre, and his actual writing style is just fine as well; but like most of these kinds of stories, there's simply nothing here that's particularly engaging, unique or compelling, with a flatlined plot that is all style and no substance. Although I appreciate a good turn of phrase as much as anyone else, and I'm also much more forgiving of rambling storylines when they're being presented as such, The Outside World is presented as a traditional three-act novel, and as such it's unfortunately lacking.
Out of 10: 7.0 (