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A carregar... Alma Mater (2001)por Rita Mae Brown
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Fun! Quite the conundrum. Some good laughs and quirky characters. I was very happy for the epilogue that filled in how it all turned out years later. ( ) I enjoy this author, as she puts a face on what has been underground, lesbian literature. She does not sanitize it for heterosexual consumption, but writes a story (or fairy tale) as it progresses. The characters are a bit idealized, as is the epilogue. It is the Disneyfication of lesbian love. Rarely are any love stories so happily ever after. In a way, it would make a better movie than book. I expect more torment in my books. It would be interesting if there was a sister-book told in Chris's perspective. She seems a more complex character, but the author does not delve into her life story as much. I believe that would be much more interesting, and perhaps less fairy-tale. A quick read - read it in one afternoon/evening. A story in the same vein as Rubyfruit Jungle and Southern Discomfort, merging the homosexual themes of the former with thesouthern atmosphere of the latter. Vic Sevedge is starting last year of her bachelor, with a longterm boyfiend and a large social circle when she meets Chris and falls in love. This is complicated by her father having lost his money, everybodys expectations that she marry her rich boyfriend , and Chris being a woman. Vics family is endearingly excentric, and the southern atmophere created in the book goes a long way to justify the archaic behaviour and perceptions of the characters. This is a nice little story of growing up, describing a romance that is untraditional without becoming too mired down in the details of the romance, instead letting it develop against a backdrop of the Sevedge family saga, in between the crises that their odd family and neighboors causes. The thing I found the most trying about the book was the way Brown writes scenes; describing a charactes action, then tacking on a description of the characters feelings. So during a conversation the reader gets the conversation and the interactions, and the internal emotions/ observations of several of the participating characters. The epilogue seemed rushed, and I wonder what the purpose of letting Vic become one of the "Old Boys" is? The southern excentricity may seem a bit forced and intentionally 'cute', which reduces the storys impact.
Sketchy characterization and desultory writing don’t exactly fill in the blanks between sex scenes, and the college-lesbian romance seems awfully dated—when not embarrassingly rapturous. Brown's tendency to tell rather than show ("Raised in a judgmental family, Chris had survived by nourishing her sense of rebellion. She didn't know what she was looking for until she met Vic") and filler dialogue ("Sit down. It's my turn to give you a Coke" and "Mother, do you want a refill?" "No, thank you. But you may clean the ashtray") wear on the reader, and the one-dimensional characters and soap opera story line provide little relief. Brown's good-natured humor and exuberant treatment of her themes may satisfy her fans, but she's unlikely to pick up new readers this time around.
Sex makes monkeys out of all of us. If you don??t give in to it, you wind up a cold, unfeeling bastard. If you do, you spend the rest of your life picking up the pieces. . . . At the start of senior year at William & Mary, the six-foot-tall, raven-haired beauty Victoria ??Vic? Savedge finds her future mapped out in detail. She will marry Charly Harrison, the son of one of Virginia??s most prominent families. Though branded by a fiery streak of independence, Vic hasn??t really considered any other options. Until she meets a woman named Chris. A transfer from Vermont, Chris is new to Southern mores and attitudes. Though instantly captivated by Vic, she is also drawn to the entire quirky but charming Savedge family. But the young women??s friendship is not your basic college-girl variety. For neither can resist their mutual attraction??an attraction that erupts into a passion that will forever change the course Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Google Books — A carregar... GénerosSistema Decimal de Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos EUA (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia:
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