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A carregar... Here I Am: A Novel (edição 2017)por Jonathan Safran Foer (Autor)
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Well written, but a little too psychological for my taste. I read nonfiction primarily to be entertained and this was mostly just depressing. I couldn't decide if I was meant to like the protagonist or not. Characters were well developed, just not my cup of tea ( ) This is a big book about a family falling apart. The parents are struggling with failed communication, crumbling family rituals, philosopher children asking difficult questions, a geriatric dog who is past time to put down, and a religion they can no longer embrace. You constantly want to shake some sense into these people... once you stop laughing. When it comes to sheer aesthetics, you can rely on Foer to string together some beautiful, playful sentences. And he has some careful, thoughtful things to say about marriage and family and home, and how they come together and fall apart. I am always humbled by how a writer can create something out of nothing, an entire world from words, scenarios that teach me something about life. JSF did so for me in this big messy book. A story about the appetite for courage in general and in particular the courage to connect. This didn't have the natural exuberance of Everything is Illuminated...keep reading Foer trying to experience that again but it just doesn't happen. It lacks empathy and mostly leaves its characters embarrassed rather than understood, and it was uncharitably long. But anyway, there were a couple of corner-benders to preserve: - 171 "Only the weakness is persuasive" ...about being able to forgive misdeeds but not overcome loss of respect -328 "perhaps the explanation for his addiction to it: it was an opportunity to be a little less ethical, and a little less of a coward" -379 "...it wasn't too late in life for happiness...When..would it be too late for honesty?" -457 "I made a mistake. I thought the worst thing to say was the hardest thing to say. But it's actually pretty easy to say horrible things...it's even easier because we know exactly how bad the words are. There is nothing scary about them. Part of what makes something really hard to say is the not knowing...The hardest thing to say isn't a word or a sentence but an event...It requires the hardest person, or people, to say it to." The concept of an 'eruv' in cities to allow carrying on the sabbath was kind of neat also. On the cover this says the funniest literary novel I have ever read so I was expecting a laugh. Instead this novel often seemed sad, troubled and doom-laden. There are moments of mirth in the family which are nicely observed and portrayed and there is a lot here that is sensitive and well done. The big thing is big when it happens and comes from nowhere but it is the family story that is really important in this book. It has depth and is thoughtful. It is full of dialogue and this is mixed, sometimes brilliant, sometimes clumsy. An interesting read. sem crÃticas | adicionar uma crÃtica
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HTML: A monumental new audiobook from the bestselling author of Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer's Here I Am How do we fulfill our conflicting duties as father, husband, and son; wife and mother; child and adult? Jew and American? How can we claim our own identities when our lives are linked so closely to others'? These are the questions at the heart of Jonathan Safran Foer's first novel in eleven yearsâ??a work of extraordinary scope and heartbreaking intimacy. Unfolding over four tumultuous weeks in present-day Washington, D.C., Here I Am is the story of a fracturing family in a moment of crisis. As Jacob and Julia Bloch and their three sons are forced to confront the distances between the lives they think they want and the lives they are living, a catastrophic earthquake sets in motion a quickly escalating conflict in the Middle East. At stake is the meaning of homeâ??and the fundamental question of how much aliveness one can bear. Showcasing the same high-energy inventiveness, hilarious irreverence, and emotional urgency that readers and critics loved in his earlier work, Here I Am is Foer's most searching, hard-hitting, and grandly entertaining novel yet. It not only confirms Foer's stature as a dazzling literary talent but reveals a novelist who has fully come into his own as one of the most important writers in America Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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