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Chargement... Rabbits for Food (original 2019; édition 2019)par Binnie Kirshenbaum (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreRabbits for Food par Binnie Kirshenbaum (2019)
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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. Bizarre ( ) Some of this novel is amusing, but mostly it's just bleak. Bunny is a bit like how I imagine I might be if I lived in a huge city in a tiny apartment with annoying friends and no children to distract me from myself. At one point Bunny refers to Stockbridge, MA, when I think she means Sturbridge, MA, which I found a little distracting because otherwise she seems like a stickler-for-details narrator, despite her lies to herself. “People who are not easy to like have feelings just like nice people do.” Bunny is not easy to like. An erstwhile novelist in the grip of a profound clinical depression, she has little patience for social niceties and superficial people. Unfortunately, she is surrounded by them. When a disturbing incident at a New Year’s Eve dinner party lands her in a psychiatric unit, she copes as best she can, by writing her sardonic observations on her legal pad and making alliances (not actually friendships) with a ragtag bunch of fellow patients. She wants nothing more than to go home to her devoted husband Albie and cat Jeffery, but to do so she’ll have to give in to the doctors’ insistence that she cooperate with them. What will she do? I imagine that how much you will like this book depends on the extent to which you can understand the main character. Bunny is sharp-tongued, unhygienic, and self-absorbed, a misfit in her family and in most social groups. She cries a lot too. I liked this book so much I finished it in two days and wished there were more of it. Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. I'm embarrassed to say that I accidentally misplaced this audio recording... I found this book very interesting... even though there was times it dragged it did keep my interest... Thanks to NetGalley. I read one of Ms. Kirshenbaum's books that I loved so when I saw this one, I had to read it. Plus, the title intrigued me -- what can it be about? I read the plot before I decided to download this and decided why not. I'm not saying this is the worst book I've read but I don't know if it was worth finishing. Luckily, it held my interest (for what it's worth), and it was fast reading. I hate open ended books too. Not sure what happened with Bunny and all of the people there but would like to find out without reading the whole book. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"Master of razor-edged literary humor Binnie Kirshenbaum returns with her first novel in a decade, a devastating, laugh-out-loud funny story of a writer's slide into depression and institutionalization. It's New Year's Eve, the holiday of forced fellowship, mandatory fun, and paper hats. While dining out with her husband and their friends, Kirshenbaum's protagonist--an acerbic, mordantly witty, and clinically depressed writer--fully unravels. Her breakdown lands her in the psych ward of a prestigious New York hospital where she refuses all modes of recommended treatment. Instead, she passes the time chronicling the lives of her fellow "lunatics" and writing a novel about how she got to this place. Her story is a hilarious and harrowing deep dive into the disordered mind of a woman who sees the world all too clearly. Propelled by stand-up comic timing and rife with pinpoint insights, Kirshenbaum examines what it means to be unloved and loved, to succeed and fail, to be at once impervious and raw. Rabbits for Food shows how art can lead us out of--or into--the depths of disconsolate loneliness and piercing grief. A bravura literary performance from one of our most witty and indispensable writers"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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