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Steve Tesich (1942–1996)

Autor(a) de Karoo

18+ Works 549 Membros 17 Críticas 2 Favorited

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Image credit: Steve Tesich - Photograph taken in front of the Goodman Theatre, Chicago, in the winter of 1991, after the interview with Dejan Stojanovic.

Obras por Steve Tesich

Karoo (1998) 279 exemplares
Summer Crossing (1982) 85 exemplares
Breaking Away [1979 film] (1979) — Screenwriter — 59 exemplares
The Speed of Darkness (1991) 31 exemplares
Division Street: A Comedy (1981) 16 exemplares
Division St. and Other Plays (1981) 14 exemplares
Passing game: A drama in two acts (1978) 10 exemplares
Nourish The Beast (1974) 9 exemplares
Square one (1990) 9 exemplares
Eleni [1985 film] (2016) — Screenwriter — 6 exemplares
Price (2016) 6 exemplares
Breaking Away (1958) 5 exemplares
Touching Bottom (1980) 3 exemplares
The Carpenters (1971) 3 exemplares
Arts & leisure (1997) 1 exemplar
Four Friends [1981 film] (1981) — Screenwriter — 1 exemplar

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There's two reasons this book is not underrated. The first person narrator and protagonaist is a profoundly unlikeable, irrational, self-sabotaging emotional cripple. Now, I know that doesn't mean it couldn't be a good book, but the trouble is that the writing is just not good enough to get us on board with him. Compare Saul Karoo with Nabakov's Humbert Humbert and clearly Nabakov's character is much more morally repugnant. However, he still manages to charm and woo the reader far more than Saul Karoo ever does. That's because although there are passages of wit, the writing in this novel doesn't have the sizzle and relentless brilliance of Lolita. The descriptions meander, the action is less than crisp and the same point is laboured too often.

The second reason is that at some point the author loses faith in the power of his irony and drops it, so that the second half of the book becomes too earnest and suffers for it. It's a mistake that Julian Barnes or Martin Amis would never make.

This could be a very good three hundred page book, but it's too long and the author doesn't have the technical ability to realise his ideas.
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robfwalter | 10 outras críticas | Jul 31, 2023 |
"he would have to live out his days with the knowledge that he had no future"

"his story line goes from the epic genre to the tragic and from the tragic to the tragicomic, until it finally settles down to farce. Whatever journey he had been on is over."

Astonishing, jarring, completely unfiltered writing. The unspoken thoughts spoken. The unbearable realizations realized. The impossible confessions confessed. An extraordinary odyssey that hurtles into the void. What is our pain when we understand that our dreams will never be realized? How acute is our suffering when we acknowledge that our time has run out? What do we do when we have days to live with no future to live them in?
A brilliant novel that will stay with you for an eternity.
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mortalfool | 10 outras críticas | Jul 10, 2021 |
Un « écrivain » spécialisé dans la reprise de scénarios et d’adaptations pour le cinéma, père adoptif séparé de son épouse, gras et sévèrement névrosé, spectateur de sa vie, coincé dans une sorte de mise en abyme de lui-même, voguant dans une stase vaseuse…

L’histoire d’un menteur procrastinateur autocentré

Un livre brillant, une oeuvre autour d’un anti-héros coincé dans sa propre histoire comme une limace dans un verre de bière
 
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noid.ch | 10 outras críticas | Oct 24, 2020 |
Ein letzter Kleinstadt-Sommer kurz vor dem Erwachsenwerden: Daniel Price ist siebzehn und hat gerade die Highschool abgeschlossen. Er lenkt sich mit Ringkämpfen ab von der Verbitterung seines krebskranken Vaters und der bröckelnden Ehe der Eltern. Als Daniel die schöne, unergründliche Rachel kennenlernt, wird die Welt auf einmal schrecklich und wunderbar weit.
 
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Fredo68 | 2 outras críticas | May 14, 2020 |

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18
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Membros
549
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Avaliação
3.8
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17
ISBN
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