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Tom Carson (1) (1956–)

Autor(a) de Gilligan's Wake

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5+ Works 218 Membros 9 Críticas

About the Author

Tom Carson was born in Germany in 1956, he grew up living abroad. He graduated in 1977 from Princeton University, where he won the Samuel Shellabarger award for creative writing. Carson is the author of Gilligan's Wake, a New York Times Notable Book of The Year for 2003, and Daisy Buchanan's mostrar mais Daughter, 2011. Currently he is GQ's "The Critic," where he won two National Magazine Awards for criticism as Esquire magazine's "Screen" columnist and has been nominated two more times since. A former resident of Washington, D.C., New York City, and Los Angeles, he now lives in New Orleans with his wife, Arion Berger. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

Obras por Tom Carson

Associated Works

The Neon Wilderness (1947) — Introdução, algumas edições257 exemplares
The Best American Magazine Writing 2008 (2008) — Contribuidor — 47 exemplares
The Best American Magazine Writing 2010 (2010) — Contribuidor — 44 exemplares
The Best American Magazine Writing 2000 (2000) — Contribuidor — 26 exemplares
Black Clock 21 (2016) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1956
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
USA
Ocupações
novelist
journalist

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This ambitious and very funny novel is not remotely a linear narrative. Rather, as its title suggests, it moves with the spirit of James Joyce and presents a series of seemingly jumbled narratives riffing lightly on characters from the TV series GILLIGAN'S ISLAND. In a style that has been compared with that of Thomas Pynchon, Tom Carson's book is not a particularly easy read, but neither is it especially difficult. It does require, and it plays like a jazz band on, an awareness of popular culture and of politics in the post-war era. Carson's sense of humor and of wordplay is spectacular and while the novel really only uses GILLIGAN'S ISLAND as a springboard and touchstone, you will never look at that TV series in quite the same way after reading this. Darkly funny, intricate, and at times puzzling, GILLIGAN'S WAKE is a terrific novel--but, like the show that inspired it, it's not for everyone.… (mais)
 
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jumblejim | 4 outras críticas | Aug 26, 2023 |
It sucks. The first few chapters caught a hold of me dealing with some 20-something dead-enders hanging out in squalor still very much caught up in nostalgia for their high school party days and lamenting about a friend who had committed suicide even though none of them liked her. The novel primarily consists of long droll conversations about high school and events around the time of the suicide and not much else. There's the intro character who's run back to his small town because he killed a junkie in an alley due in part to a song he performed, at least according to him. It seemed in the early chapters that the novel was about to work up to something but it never did. When it started shifting POVs it lost me, so I started speed reading. This book is bland, the conversations were repetitive, and none of the characters were really that great at all in any respect. I cannot recommend this, it's just really boring.… (mais)
 
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Ranjr | 2 outras críticas | Jul 13, 2023 |
135/54-Η αλήθεια πως δυσκολεύτηκα να ακολουθήσω τη ροή. Ποτέ δε ξεμπέρδεψα τα πρόσωπα και να καταφέρω να ξεχωρίσω ποιος είναι ποιος . Η εντύπωση που μου έμεινε είναι πως η παρέα είναι ένα συνονθύλευμα προβληματικών ανθρώπων , αλκοολικών καταθλιπτικών και ναρκομανών. Απ' αυτούς κάποιοι δεν μπορούν να συνεχίσουν κι αυτοκτονούν, άλλοι βολεύονται κι άλλοι προσπαθούν να συνεχίσουν .… (mais)
 
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Bella_Baxter | 2 outras críticas | Jul 12, 2022 |
Best novel I’ve read by a US white guy in ages! More fun than Pynchon and Delillo (MUCH more fun than David Foster Wallace) and just as inventive, just as revelatory about the late 20th century American experience.
 
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CSRodgers | 4 outras críticas | Aug 10, 2014 |

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Obras
5
Also by
6
Membros
218
Popularidade
#102,474
Avaliação
3.8
Críticas
9
ISBN
45
Línguas
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