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Chargement... Pouce ! (French Edition) (1999)par Walter Kirn
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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. I absolutely love this book. Justin Cobb has a problem with sucking his thumb and after visiting his dentist who hypnotizes him, Justin develops new obsessions to replace thumbsucking. He experiments with sex and drugs, joins the debate team, becomes a Mormon, fly fishes, just about anything. Also central to the story is Justin's dysfunctional family. The novel is endearing and engaging. Also the basis for the movie of the same name, starring Lou Pucci. Loved the movie, but as usual, the book reigns supreme. High-schooler Justin still sucks his thumb. Hypnosis seems to do the trick but it also leaves a void in his life which he fills with various activities such as discovering a talent for forensic speaking, joining the Mormon church, fly fishing, smoking dope, uncovering his mother’s supposed affair with a celebrity in rehab, and a job as a gas station attendant. It was aiiight...
Und die Moral von der Geschicht'? Pah, Moral! Die gibt es nicht! würde Walter Kirn vielleicht sagen. Möglicherweise hat Kirn als angesehener Literaturkritiker - er schreibt unter anderem für das "New York Magazine", für "Time" und "The New Yorker" - gründlich die Nase voll von moralisierenden Romanen und die Absicht, mit Erwartungen des Lesers an irgendeine sinnvolle Botschaft des Textes zu spielen. Wer bei dem Spiel gewinnen kann, bleibt in diesem Fall allerdings fraglich. Der Leser jedenfalls nicht.
This eighties-centric, Ritalin-fueled, pitch-perfect comic novel by a writer to watch brings energy and originality to the classic Midwestern coming-of-age story.Meet Justin Cobb, "the King Kong of oral obsessives" (as his dentist dubs him) and the most appealingly bright and screwed-up fictional adolescent since Holden Caulfield donned his hunter's cap. For years, no remedy--not orthodontia, not the escalating threats of his father, Mike, a washed-out linebacker turned sporting goods entrepreneur, not the noxious cayenne pepper-based Suk-No-Mor--can cure Justin's thumbsucking habit.Then a course of hypnosis seemingly does the trick, but true to the conservation of neurotic energy, the problem doesn't so much disappear as relocate. Sex, substance abuse, speech team, fly-fishing, honest work, even Mormonism--Justin throws himself into each pursuit with a hyperactive energy that even his daily Ritalin dose does little to blunt.Each time, however, he discovers that there is no escaping the unruly imperatives of his self and the confines of his deeply eccentric family. The only "cure" for the adolescent condition is time and distance.Always funny, sometimes hilariously so, occasionally poignant, and even disturbing, deeply wise on the vexed subject of fathers and sons, Walter Kirn's Thumbsucker is an utterly fresh and all-American take on the painful process of growing up. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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Darkly funny, sometimes disturbing. I picked this up after reading Up In The Air by Kirn. His strange characters are almost haunting, good people who are nearly beaten by their dysfunction yet keep trying. ( )