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A lyrical coming-of-age memoir, Down from the Mountaintop chronicles a quest for belonging. Raised in northwestern Montana by Pentecostal homesteaders whose twenty-year experiment in subsistence living was closely tied to their faith, Joshua Dolez al experienced a childhood marked equally by his parents' quest for spiritual transcendence and the surrounding Rocky Mountain landscape. Unable to fully embrace the fundamentalism of his parents, he began to search for religious experience elsewhere: in baseball, books, and weightlifting, then later in migrations to Tennessee, Nebraska, a Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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There is an air of martyrdom and pretentiousness in Dolezal's story, which all too often turns into over-the-top exasperating melodrama that left me talking to myself in frustration. Because here's the thing: Dolezal is a very good writer, one who has obviously read voluminously. He understands and uses well the rich rhythms of the language. There are many sentences in here that are a pleasure to read aloud. Here are just a couple examples -
"Pelicans spiral over the spillway, skating to a stop on the water ..."
"I can still feel the hum of the wheels, the dance of my feet, sprockets spinning and spinning, their teeth tugging the links of the chain."
So yeah, in regard to language itself, Dolezal displays the sensibilities of a poet. Poetry, in fact, may well turn out to be his métier. This story? Like I said, mixed feelings. Largely frustrating and exasperating, but with some good stuff here and there. A very promising writer trying too hard to make opera from an ordinary life. Maybe he wrote his own story a little too soon. Some years and seasoning will, I think, make a world of difference, and the next book - whether poetry or prose - is bound to be better. I'll watch for it. ( )