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Includes the name: Emily Fox Gordon

Obras por Emily Fox Gordon

Associated Works

The Best American Essays 2014 (2014) — Contribuidor — 165 exemplares

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1948
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
USA
Locais de residência
Houston, Texas, USA
Relações
Sher, George (husband)
Prémios e menções honrosas
Guggenheim Fellowship (General Nonfiction, 2014)

Membros

Críticas

 
Assinalado
lulaa | 1 outra crítica | Sep 14, 2019 |
I had to literally throw it across the room, it made me so mad.
 
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earthforms | 1 outra crítica | Feb 2, 2014 |
I could not finish this book and I had to literally throw it across the room, it made me so mad. I hate when "self-indulgent" is used to describe art of any sort because I want people to create their art for themselves first, not who the audience might be. That said, this was the most pointless, self-indulgent piece of poo I have ever attempted to read. Maybe the end had some huge revelation, but I physically couldn't make myself finish.
 
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wwtct | 1 outra crítica | Jun 21, 2011 |
There were some inspired moments of academic satire here, but the book overall felt too effortful. It's difficult to do this genre exceptionally well, but it doesn't seem that difficult to do it in a readable and benignly amusing style. Since authors of books like these know their audience is primarily made up of people who will "get" academic satire (i.e., academics), they merely have to pepper otherwise uninteresting narratives with witty barbs about university life, its oddities and its eccentrics. Gordon does this well enough, but it feels workmanlike.

Characters were underdeveloped; plot was fairly nonexistent and ended with a (very odd) whimper. The book suffers from the same problem that plagues the main character, a failed author: "Her publisher packaged the books as a trilogy ... which was duly hailed as 'acid,' 'biting,' and 'caustic.' ... [Later] she found she'd lost access to whatever capacity it was that had called forth all those low-pH adjectives." It Will Come to Me is far from biting; instead, it offers a gummy nibble.
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½
2 vote
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sansmerci | 3 outras críticas | Jun 12, 2011 |

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Obras
7
Also by
1
Membros
269
Popularidade
#85,899
Avaliação
3.2
Críticas
8
ISBN
11

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