Kiley Reid
Autor(a) de Such a Fun Age
About the Author
Obras por Kiley Reid
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Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1987
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- País (no mapa)
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Locais de residência
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Ocupações
- novelist
- Agente
- Claudia Ballard
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Kiley Reid (born 1987) is an American novelist. Her debut novel, Such a Fun Age, was published in December 2019.
Reid was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1987 and raised in Tucson, Arizona, from the age of seven to 20. She graduated from Salpointe Catholic High School and studied theater at the University of Arizona for two years before transferring to Marymount Manhattan College. She later graduated from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
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2020 Booker Prize Longlist: Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid em Booker Prize (Agosto 2020)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 4
- Membros
- 3,388
- Popularidade
- #7,527
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 183
- ISBN
- 42
- Línguas
- 7
- Marcado como favorito
- 1
There is very little plot to the book, just the everyday drama these drama queens create for themselves and their dorm mates. The book is set in a dormitory on the University of Arkansas campus. Most of the students are from out of state, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Iowa, etc. From that point, little happens until the end of the book. The characters were mostly unlikeable. I do not need for the characters to be likeable, but it would be nice to be able to relate and emphasize with them and their struggles. I could not have cared less what happens to these characters.
The book opens strangely with the introduction of Professor Agatha Paul, whom it seems will be a major character in the book. Then, she disappears for over 60 pages. I was left wondering what happened to this character who was so important that the book opened with her.
The major issues with the book is its length. It is too long, coming in at over 380 pages. At least 100 pages, or more, could have been cut. The book would have been a faster and tighter read. Also, there are too many characters in the book. I counted over 70 distinct characters. Every insignificant character was named in the book. This was too many characters to keep track of without writing them down, which I did, and it took four pages of paper to keep track of them.
In addition, there are a number of craft issues with the book. As the author is supposedly an Assistant Professor teaching creative writing at the University of Michigan, I would have expected a better result. I guess anyone can be a professor at the U. of Michigan. There are many point of view shifts, even within the same paragraph. Lots of head hopping. At one point, we are in Millie's head and in the very next sentence (same paragraph), we are told what another character is thinking. How does Millie know what they are thinking? There were also a lot of missing dialogue tags, so knowing who was speaking was next to impossible. This was confusing, especially when several people were together and speaking at the same time. The speaker was impossible to determine. Plus, other than one character, all of the characters spoke alike. People of different ages from different parts of the country do not speak alike. Thus the dialog was stilted and uncreative. There were a few misspelled words also. I guess the editor fell asleep while proofreading the text. There were also many incorrect and unclear pronoun antecedent agreement issues.
The worst part of the book was the ending. Several characters acted out of character so the author could quickly wrap up the book. The ending was neither believable nor credible. Had the ending been better, I might have given the book two stars for the few interesting parts. But unfortunately, it does not even deserve the one start minimum I had to give it. Don’t waste your time with this book, nor your money.… (mais)