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Chargement... Golden gate (1986)par Vikram Seth
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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. This is an early eighties story of a group of people living in the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridget in San Francisco. John is a successful but lonely executive looking for some kind of love. His ex-girlfriend-turned-loyal-good-friend, Janet Hayakawa, takes pity on him and places an ad in the personals (a la Rupert Holmes: if you like Pina Coladas). As John goes on bland blind date after bland blind date he finds ways to avoid second encounters with each woman until he meets Liz. It's practically love at both sight for both of them...until he moves in with her and meets her cat. Competition with a pet is not easy. Philip Weiss is also looking for love after his wife, Claire Cabot, left him and their young son, Paul. When Philip tries a different sort of love he is confronted with conflicting feelings. Morality, religion, and society's attitudes guide his choices. These are just a few of the characters in Golden Gate. As the reader, you get to delve into their work, their relationships, their responsibilities. It's all about human connections. The fact it is one giant poem is just icing on the cake. I was captivated until the (surprising) end. It took Vikram thirteen months to finish The Golden Gate. In 300 pages of iambic pentameter, this is the story of John, who is desperately lonely and calls up a former girlfriend, Jan, to help him figure out how he can find love. Jan jumps right in and places an ad, then sorts through to find good matches for John, which ends with him meeting and falling for attorney Liz. They're very happy together, but their relationship angers Liz's old cat, Charlemagne, who takes great pleasure in destroying John's things and peeing on his pillow. This is also the story of John's best friend, Phil. His wife left him and their young son a while ago, something they are still dealing with, but Phil finds an unexpected love in Ed, Liz's brother. Keeping their relationship hidden to their family and friends, there is also the issue of Ed's Catholic guilt, which seems to come up when Phil believes they should be at their happiest. Remarkably fleshed out, these are characters that have hidden sides and the ability to evolve. They deal with parenthood, illness, government and corporate pollution, and religion. Yes, it's hard to read a poem this long, yet it's filled with humor. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Ce roman se d roule au pied du Golden Gate. Lieu: la Californie. Les ann es quatre-vingt. Quelques Am ricains, sous l'oeil de Vikram Seth, Cherchent le grand amour et bravent le destin. Cette pop e moderne, o satire et romance Entra nent le lecteur au coeur d'une exp rience Unique, est racont e en vers: sept cents sonnets A peu de choses pr s, o tour tour para t Et dispara t l'espoir, o le futur auteur D'Un gar on convenable, autre roman pique, Fait de San Francisco une cit mythique. Le rire y est fr quent, aussi bien que les pleurs. Savourez sa musique et oubliez l'exploit. (Il est traduit ici pour la premi re fois.)Ce Golden Gate pourrait se conter voix haute, rythm par des dialogues, de l'humour et des pleurs, entra nant le lecteur par sa musique sans faute, le conduisant aussi r citer sans peur. Vikram Seth et Claro rendent ce roman magique. Gilles Heur , T l rama. 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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I can look on this verse novel as something of a tour de force and it is fun watching the author's verbal dexterity in keeping to the meter, but the actual story is really rather slight. ( )