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A carregar... The Orchard (2020)por David Hopen
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Too much pontificating. Long drawn out chapters detailing the day to day lives of these rich, spoiled and entitled kids. First few chapters drew me in then it was just more of the same. Happy it was a freebie! ( ) The Orchard by David Hopen had the potential of being a stunning debut novel. The coming age of a Jewish religious high school student feels unique. Hopen is an excellent technical writer. But the novel flips between preachy biblical sections and characters that fail to engage with the reader emotionally despite the horrific revelations and plot turns. And if you stick with the book, you will be rewarded with an implausible, farfetched and contrived ending. _The Chosen_ meets _A Separate Peace_ meets _The Secret History._ Minus all the homoeroticism of those works. The depictions of drunkenness and smoking weed are so unappealing that it makes one wonder what could lure a devout ultra-Orthodox boy into those pastimes. Also this book does not pass the Bechdel test. However, it entertained me and taught me new things. Which is all I could hope to get from a novel! sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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HTML: A NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FINALIST A Recommended Book From: A commanding debut and a poignant coming-of-age story about a devout Jewish high school student whose plunge into the secularized world threatens everything he knows of himself Ari Eden's life has always been governed by strict rules. In ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn, his days are dedicated to intense study and religious rituals, and adolescence feels profoundly lonely. So when his family announces that they are moving to a glitzy Miami suburb, Ari seizes his unexpected chance for reinvention. Enrolling in an opulent Jewish academy, Ari is stunned by his peers' dizzying wealth, ambition, and shameless pursuit of life's pleasures. When the academy's golden boy, Noah, takes Ari under his wing, Ari finds himself entangled in the school's most exclusive and wayward group. These friends are magnetic and defiant??especially Evan, the brooding genius of the bunch, still living in the shadow of his mother's death. Influenced by their charismatic rabbi, the group begins testing their religion in unconventional ways. Soon Ari and his friends are pushing moral boundaries and careening toward a perilous future??one in which the traditions of their faith are repurposed to mysterious, tragic ends. Mesmerizing and playful, heartrending and darkly romantic, The Orchard probes the conflicting forces that determine who we become: the heady relationships of youth, the allure of greatness, the doctrines we inherit, and our concealed des Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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