AccueilGroupesDiscussionsPlusTendances
Site de recherche
Ce site utilise des cookies pour fournir nos services, optimiser les performances, pour les analyses, et (si vous n'êtes pas connecté) pour les publicités. En utilisant Librarything, vous reconnaissez avoir lu et compris nos conditions générales d'utilisation et de services. Votre utilisation du site et de ses services vaut acceptation de ces conditions et termes.

Résultats trouvés sur Google Books

Cliquer sur une vignette pour aller sur Google Books.

Chargement...

Love Me Back: A Novel (2014)

par Merritt Tierce

Autres auteurs: Voir la section autres auteur(e)s.

MembresCritiquesPopularitéÉvaluation moyenneMentions
18414146,867 (3.4)11
Fiction. Literature. HTML:From "5 Under 35" honoree and Rona Jaffe Award-winner comes an urgent, intensely visceral debut novel about a young waitress whose downward spiral is narrated in electric prose

Marie, a young single mother, lands a job at an upscale Dallas steakhouse. She is preternaturally attuned to the appetites of her patrons, but quickly learns to hide her private struggle behind an easy smile and a crisp white apron. In a world of long hours and late nights, where everything runs on a currency of favors, cash and cachet, Marie gives in to brutally self-destructive impulses. She loses herself in a tangle of bodies and the kind of coke that 'napalms your emotional synapses.' But obliterationâ??not pleasureâ??is her goal. Pulsing with fierce, almost feral energy, Love Me Back is an unapologetic portrait of a woman cutting a precarious path through early adulthood. In the words of Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, "Tierce roams like… (plus d'informations)
Aucun
Chargement...

Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre

Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.

» Voir aussi les 11 mentions

Affichage de 1-5 de 14 (suivant | tout afficher)
What a piece of trash.
  burritapal | Oct 23, 2022 |
A crossroads book about living in that disconnect between the life you choose and the life that chooses you.

Marie is a damn good waitress, a half-hearted mother, and an on-again, off-again junkie who derailed off the straight and narrow when she became pregnant on the verge of attending Yale. Instead of going to college, she starts waitressing. The book chronicles a life spent in shadows of what was, what will be, and what is.

Not a bad book, but I was let down by all the hype. I wanted something spectacular to jump out and grab me besides the story. That's why only 3 1/2 stars.

( )
  AngelaLam | Feb 8, 2022 |
Test 1
  Emerson1 | Oct 24, 2021 |
Astounding. ( )
  shaundeane | Sep 13, 2020 |
This was written two years before Sweetbitter (2016), another turgid novel about a floundering server in a high end restaurant. I dislike them equally because both first person narrators are young women who invite abuse due to low self-esteem or whatever, I just don't care. Marie has a daughter who she can't live with because she isn't responsible enough to care for her. So what would have happened to this child if her husband hadn't stepped in? There's no evidence of childhood abuse here, no discernible explanation for her encouraging every man she meets to mistreat her, no justification for her burning herself with hot metal objects. I supposed she's mentally ill, but she just comes off as a horrible person. "In that restaurant all of us were off. Maybe that's just what it is to be alive, you've got that broken sooty piece of something lodged inside you making you veer left." I usually am not bothered by unlikeable characters, but this one's too much for me, even with her Iowa Writers Workshop cred and bigshot blurbs.

Quotes: "Some kinds of pain make fine antidotes to others."

"Matt would sit forward in his chair to catch the invisible gazelles of wisdom leaping out of her mouth." ( )
  froxgirl | Dec 4, 2019 |
Affichage de 1-5 de 14 (suivant | tout afficher)
aucune critique | ajouter une critique

» Ajouter d'autres auteur(e)s

Nom de l'auteurRôleType d'auteurŒuvre ?Statut
Merritt Tierceauteur principaltoutes les éditionscalculé
Mahon, EmilyConcepteur de la couvertureauteur secondairequelques éditionsconfirmé
Parein, RizonArtiste de la couvertureauteur secondairequelques éditionsconfirmé
Vous devez vous identifier pour modifier le Partage des connaissances.
Pour plus d'aide, voir la page Aide sur le Partage des connaissances [en anglais].
Titre canonique
Titre original
Titres alternatifs
Date de première publication
Personnes ou personnages
Lieux importants
Évènements importants
Films connexes
Épigraphe
Dédicace
Premiers mots
Citations
Derniers mots
Notice de désambigüisation
Directeur de publication
Courtes éloges de critiques
Langue d'origine
DDC/MDS canonique
LCC canonique

Références à cette œuvre sur des ressources externes.

Wikipédia en anglais

Aucun

Fiction. Literature. HTML:From "5 Under 35" honoree and Rona Jaffe Award-winner comes an urgent, intensely visceral debut novel about a young waitress whose downward spiral is narrated in electric prose

Marie, a young single mother, lands a job at an upscale Dallas steakhouse. She is preternaturally attuned to the appetites of her patrons, but quickly learns to hide her private struggle behind an easy smile and a crisp white apron. In a world of long hours and late nights, where everything runs on a currency of favors, cash and cachet, Marie gives in to brutally self-destructive impulses. She loses herself in a tangle of bodies and the kind of coke that 'napalms your emotional synapses.' But obliterationâ??not pleasureâ??is her goal. Pulsing with fierce, almost feral energy, Love Me Back is an unapologetic portrait of a woman cutting a precarious path through early adulthood. In the words of Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, "Tierce roams like

Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque

Description du livre
Résumé sous forme de haïku

Discussion en cours

Aucun

Couvertures populaires

Vos raccourcis

Évaluation

Moyenne: (3.4)
0.5
1
1.5
2 5
2.5
3 16
3.5 2
4 17
4.5
5 2

Est-ce vous ?

Devenez un(e) auteur LibraryThing.

 

À propos | Contact | LibraryThing.com | Respect de la vie privée et règles d'utilisation | Aide/FAQ | Blog | Boutique | APIs | TinyCat | Bibliothèques historiques | Critiques en avant-première | Partage des connaissances | 203,185,995 livres! | Barre supérieure: Toujours visible