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A carregar... Bloodbrothers (1976)por Richard Price
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. A superb, heartfelt novel about coming of age and the development in oneself of simple human decency. Richard Price really is, as my pal Jerry perceptively put it, incapable of writing a dull sentence. Very highly recommended. Read this many years ago (in my twenties) and wanted to see what it was like at my now-advanced age of 53, especially as I had just purchased a new re-issue for my son. It was a gripping, gritty novel as I remembered with the same inevitable swirl of events toward darkness that I find in Russell Banks, Richard Yates, and a few others...yet retaining a belief (a la Faulkner, Steinbeck) in the inherent dignity of human beings in painful situations. At least I think so... Having read some of his later books, I found it interesting to read this earlier book. The story was simpler than his later work but the great dialogue was evident but not at the level of "Lush life". His portrayal of the Bronx tells of a life that I know exists but I have not experienced. This is the part that I like best about books. I recommend Richard Price to everyone. Stony de Coco, de achttienjarige zoon van een Italiaans-Amerikaanse elektricien in de bouw, wordt geacht met zijn vader mee te gaan als hij van school is. Het lege leven van de bouwvakker in New York trekt hem echter niet. Zijn zenuwzieke moeder terroriseert zijn achtjarige broertje die weigert te eten, en als hij het al doet braakt hij alles weer uit. Via de dokter die het jochie behandelt, komt hij op het idee om als groepsleider te gaan werken op de kinderafdeling van een ziekenhuis. Na twee weken ziekenhuis moet hij toch mee met zijn vader, om elektricienswerk te doen. Onvermijdelijk wordt hij dan meegezogen in het bouwvakkerbestaan. De schrijver (1949), zelf opgegroeid in New York, schetst een onthutsend beeld van de moraal en de werkethiek van de Newyorkse arbeidersklasse. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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Stony De Coco is 18 and the son of a pugnacious construction worker who expects his son to follow in his footsteps. But Stony is determined to break loose from this belligerent life despite opposition from everyone else in his family. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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