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A carregar... Strip the Willowpor John Aberdein
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Before you could sort a city out, you had to clean up the source'. That is the challenge Lucy faces...For years she made that common mistake: her heart was blocked, she thought she was alone. Now, as predatory LeopCorp gets set to pounce on a bankrupt Uberdeen, her quest for fellow-resisters has to speed up pronto. Feisty Alison? Subtle anarchist Iris? Ruthless young Gwen? The big fisherman with a chip on his deck, the Cretan professor - or the smart anti-capitalist clowns? Perhaps the overcrowded Polish workers - or the wounded haunting stranger that has rolled back into town? Or is Lucy simply past it? Might as well retreat to Morocco and let GrottoLotto take over the streets for a new global bonanza...' Black political satire meets salty, funny love story. "Strip the Willow" reveals itself as a dance of vision, desire, plotting and despair. The apocalypse when it comes is pretty damn sharp, the tenderness real. A vivid, breathtaking tale, "Strip the Willow" is the long-awaited second novel by the author of Saltire award-winning "Amande's Bed". Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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In Strip the willow, globalization, has pushed so far that a huge company, called LeopCorp, has taken over the city of "Uberdeen" and imposes its commercial interests renaming the city, streets and facilities Uberstreet, and UberEye. The novel follows the lives of a number of characters, victims of globalization and global displacement.
The story is not very clear, and seems loosely based on a fixation of the author with the concept of globalization driven to extremes, which hinders the development of the story. The story is contrived and lacks originality. The best and most authentic parts are formed by those describing the experiences of some of the characters fishing at sea, which are probably inspired by the author's autobiographical background in his early career as herring and scallop fisherman.
Throughout the book, the text is peppered with obscene expletives. (