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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. It's pretty funny, I guess, and it was perfectly timed for the drive to Portland and back and certainly a much better choice than whatever new or old music CDs I might've dug up. The voice performances were great, not least by Peter Hedges himself, which you can't always assume from the author of the work. But as content, it's just a throwaway comedy full of characters who provoke in me only the hope (nearly always disappointed) that they won't really be as stupid as they seem to want to be. I identified with Tim and Kate at times, sure—but look, hon, that's a mess you got yourself into, so don't come running to me for sympathy as you try to get yourself out. I'm happy to be done with the whole lot of you. This is definitely going to be the last novel I read in which a central character has a languishing doctoral dissertation that he or she just has to get finished. Really! As Tim struggles to complete his Ph.D. his wife, Kate, takes on the challenge of changing the world through the mechanism of a philanthropic foundation that she has been asked to help set up. Kate had been at home with their two young sons, whilst Tim taught history at a local school further delaying his thesis completion. It’s time for some role reversal, but there are more reversals to come as loves, old and new, sprinkle this comedy with ups and downs and (somewhat) predictable mayhem. Ostensibly this novel is set in wealthy but quaint Brooklyn Heights, but in reality all the reader gets is the façade of townhouses, fruit-named streets, and views of lower Manhattan. Not to worry. The story works whether or not it has real roots. And since so much of the surrounding detail – Tim’s thesis completion and oral defence; Kate’s philanthropic foundation’s absence of criteria for awarding grants; Anna’s (their friend) fabulous wealth and curious marital relations – is entirely fanciful and hardly believable, it is best to take it for what it is, a disneyesque cinematic impression of “real” life. The story is told in chapters alternating perspective between Tim and Kate, periodically interspersed with chapters from the perspective of other characters. The most interesting of these, perhaps, are the few chapters from the point of view of one of Tim’s former students, Bea Myerly, who has a formidable crush on him. I liked Bea. Maybe the whole story could have been told from her perspective. In any case, the action is light, the characters are sketched in at best, and the frothy whole no doubt goes best with a skinny latte grande. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
Tim Welch is a popular history teacher at the Montague Academy, an exclusive private school in Brooklyn Heights. His wife Kate stays home with their two young sons in a modest apartment, trying desperately to become the parent she never had. They are seemingly the last middle-class family in the Heights, whose world is turned upside down by Anna Brody, the new neighbor who moves into the most expensive brownstone in Brooklyn, sending the local society into a tailspin. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Google Books — A carregar... GénerosSistema Decimal de Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos EUA (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia:
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