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Chargement... The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: A Novel (édition 2017)par Taylor Jenkins Reid (Auteur)
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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo has a really good idea behind the story. Following Monique, a local writer for a magazine company, the book details the life of Evelyn Hugo, a major Hollywood actress from the latter half of the 1900's. The spill-all style writing makes it an easily readable novel simply because of the appeal of gossip surrounding the lives of celebrities. Throughout the book, however, I was left disappointed in the way Taylor Jenkins Reid, a straight White woman, decided to portray her queer characters and characters of color. I also took issue with how the people of color were portrayed as characters throughout the book. This aspect of their identities felt like even more of an afterthought than their queerness, and felt specifically used for the shocking plot twist at the end. The Latine characters fell into heavy stereotypes. Evelyn's mother was implied to be a prostitute, Evelyn's father was abusive and a raging alcoholic (on tequila?? One of Cuba's bigger exports is Rum; it wouldn't have been tequila he had a problem with and even a quick internet search could have fixed this), Evelyn herself was the sexy woman with a big chest who only had an identity through her husbands, and Luisa was Evelyn's maid. This is virtually all we know about them being people of color, and it would have been nice to see their personalities actually fleshed out. The Black characters are depicted in just as problematic ways. The only Black characters we see throughout the book are James, a Black gay man who gets killed before you even learn he was Black or gay, and Monique, a biracial Black woman who virtually never brings up her race except to compare her experiences with race to Evelyn's experiences as a bisexual woman (who also happens to be James' daughter). I quite literally forgot that Monique, the main character, was even supposed to be a biracial Black woman until it was brought up, which is again, something that should have been incorporated into her character more thoroughly. While I am glad that a book with main characters who were people of color and queer has become so popular and widely liked, there are so many authors of color, queer authors, and queer authors of color who should be and deserve to be allowed the space in publishing that Reid has taken for herself. It is not Reid's place to tell the stories of queer people or people of color. The issue for me is not that she included those characters in her book; but it is that she was trying to tell their stories and how she tried to be an authority on how queer people and people of color's stories should be told (in her eyes). Initial reaction: whaaaaat I didn't cry in the parts that I thought I would, but I cried. Good, good book. Now on a serious note: So what this book is about is love and all the different kinds of love. Platonic love, romantic love, sexual love, abusive love (if you can call it that), motherly and fatherly love. Also it is about all kinds of relationships that are not related to love, but to respect or transactional relationships or relationships between boss and employee and how much power either can have over the other. So much good stuff in this book. So many themes. And that's not even the whole plot of the book. But for this reason alone, I really like it. You, yeah you, should totally read it. But no pressure. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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A l'aube de ses quatre-vingts ans, Evelyn Hugo, lgende du cinma, est enfin prte dire la vrit sur sa vie aussi glamour que scandaleuse. Mais quand cette actrice, vieillissante et solitaire, dcrte qu'elle fera ces rvlations Monique Grant, journaliste pour un obscur magazine, personne ne comprend son choix. La journaliste dcide de saisir cette occasion pour lancer sa carrire. Elle coute avec fascination l'histoire de cette actrice marie sept fois. Une histoire d'ambition, d'amiti et d'amour dfendu. A mesure qu'elle recueille les confidences d'Evelyn, la journaliste comprend que leurs destins sont troitement lis... Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I definitely see why it was the internet’s favorite book. If you ever doubted picking it up, try it! ( )