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A carregar... The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs (2006)por Irvine Welsh
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Irvine Welsh blows me mind once again! Danny Skinner es una joven versión contemporánea del Dr. Jekyll y Mr. Hyde. Reparte su tiempo libre entre el fútbol, las mujeres, las borracheras monumentales y las grescas apocalípticas por un lado, y la lectura de Rimbaud, Verlaine y Schopenhauer por el otro. Y en su tiempo de asalariado, trabaja en Sanidad y Medio Ambiente y se dedica a inspeccionar restaurantes. Aunque también aquí la dualidad se repite, porque Danny Skinner oficialmente está interesado en la salubridad e higiene de los lugares donde cocinan los grandes chefs, y también los menos grandes, y en recibir algún que otro soborno, pero extraoficialmente pretende averiguar sus más turbios secretos de alcoba: el joven es hijo de madre soltera, una pionera del punk que jamás ha querido abrir la boca, y sospecha que su progenitor puede ser uno de estos divos contemporáneos, uno de los emperadores de esas cocinas que él visita con ojo avizor. Hasta que un día, en medio de este inestable equilibrio laboral y vital, aparece Brian Kibby, un perfecto buen chico un tanto friki, que jamás se emborracha, es aficionado a los trenes eléctricos de juguete, hace higiénicas excursiones a la montaña y asiste a las convenciones de Star Trek. Y Brian se pone a trabajar junto a Danny, que comienza a experimentar un odio inmediato y fulgurante por el recién llegado, tan instantáneo y ardiente como la admiración que Brian siente por él. The usual suspects are here..Drugs,alcohol and sex (although alcohol is an outright winner this time).The story is about an alcoholic kitchen inspector searching for the identity of his father who develops a pathological hatred for a co-worker,which ultimately has tragic results for both.The Edinburgh dialect has been toned down considerably for this novel which may be a major plus for some.I enjoyed this and would recommend. The story of Danny Skinner, alcoholic and drughead, working for Edinburgh's Department of Environmental Health, in his search for the father he never knew, and of Brian Kibble, feeble, shy, loser, who becomes Skinner's colleague and the focus of all his hatred. Lots of violence, swearing, and a fair bit of sex, but all rather pointless in my opinion. Very well written but not really my cup of tea. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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This story of two men locked in a war of wills that threatens their very existence is vintage Irvine Welsh. Troubled restaurant inspector Danny Skinner is on a quest to find the mysterious father his mother will not identify. Unraveling this hidden information is the key to understanding the crippling compulsions that threaten to wreck his young life. His ensuing journey takes him from the festival city of Edinburgh to the foodie city of San Francisco. But the hard-drinking, womanizing Skinner has a strange nemesis in the form of mild-mannered fellow inspector Brian Kibby. It is Skinner's unfathomable, obsessive hatred of Kibby that takes over everything, threatening to destroy not only Skinner and his mission but also those he loves most dearly. When Kibby contracts a horrific, undiagnosable illness, Skinner understands that his destiny is inextricably bound to that of his hated rival, and he is faced with a terrible dilemma. Irvine Welsh's work is a transgressive parable about the great obsessions of our time: food, sex, and celebrity. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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