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A carregar... The Idea Of Home (American Literature Series)por Curtis White
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 We expect autobiographical fiction to come from some sort of childhood trauma—you’re upset about your crummy life, and writing a book is cheaper than therapy—but the narrator of The Idea of Home seems upset that his childhood wasn’t traumatic enough. Sterile San Lorenzo denied him the sex and death and filth a growing boy needs, and so he’s had to go back and make it all up.
In Curtis White's first novel, The Idea Of Home, he attempts to imagine "a place in which humans can live." This utopia is definitely not San Lorenzo - a post-war, prefabricated suburb in California - where White grew up and which is the basis for this novel. From the vantage point of anoff-kilter adulthood, White spins recent American history together with personal observations and investigations into the dark heart of American suburbia. Shocking, yet very funny and always learned, The Idea Of Home is a mix of the personal and the philosophical in an energetic collage that would resemble the biographies of Nietzsche and Mark Twain if they had grown up in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1950s and '60s. 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: (3.67)
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