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A carregar... Be Sweet: A Conditional Love Storypor Roy Blount Jr.
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. The rambling parts about baseball, Southern politics, and the concept of being a "Junior" were not that personally interesting to me, but overall I enjoyed this humorous memoir. It's a poignant, honest and raw analysis of Blount’s childhood in the 1950’s and his complicated family relationships. His meandering and disjointed writing style takes some getting used to. He definitely had me hooked by the end; I cried when he talked about his mother’s death. ( ) Well, I hope that saved Mr. Blount the price of 20 years therapy! He should watch it. That sort of "sefflo" will only attract more women who will want to undo the damage his mother did. I loved the cover. Doncha just love those candy hearts? I was reading Camel's are easy, comedy's hard, a compilation of stories, at the same time. If anything, Be sweet was even more maundering. Blount is the undisputed King of the Digression. It's almost as if we are inside his head as he tries to think out his relationship with his family and everyone else in the world. I'm always sorry for people whose home life wasn't as loving and supportive as mine, but then, they write books and get paid for it and I just complain about it for free on line. I love you, Roy (no particular stress on the "I"). I think you're funny and love to listen to you talk. You're 65ish now and it's time you got over some things. Go live and be happy. We give you permission. sem crÃticas | adicionar uma crÃtica
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HTML:In the book his laughing and loving readers have been waiting for, our generation's master of full-hearted humor lays open the soul of his life story. Roy Blount Jr.â??Georgia boy turned New York wit, lover of baseball and interesting women, bumbling adventurer, literary lion, salty-limerick virtuoso and impassioned fatherâ??journeys into the past and his psyche (also all the way to China, sixty feet underwater and to various Manhattan hot spots) in search of the answers to three riddles that have haunted him intimately: One: the riddle of "the family curse." Two: the riddle of what drives him (or anyone) to be funny. Three: the riddle of what so cruelly tangled his unseverable bond with the beguiling, beaten orphan girl who became the impossible mother who raised him to Be Sweet. Roy Blount's memoir is sardonic and sentimental, hilarious and grieving, brazen and bashful, tough and tenderâ??sometimes by turns and sometimes all at once. Almost harshly Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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