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Indlæser... Everything You Knowaf Zoë Heller
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. The snarky brilliant descriptions of people are great, although the characters are mostly either despicable or pathetic. ( ) This is truly excellent. I'd give it five stars but Notes on a Scandal got that and it's slightly better. This is very very funny though; sometimes because she's just so horribly honest and sometimes, well, just because it is. I don't think I'll be able to look at my belly again without thinking of it as an affectionate haggis. On the technical front, I thought she very cleverly told us what a bad man he is at the start. Then later, when he's just dreadful, you can't help but identify. I would have liked this much more if I had read it before Zoe Heller's other, better books, [Notes on a Scandal] and [The Believers], both of which I absolutely loved. This is clearly a first novel: there are hints of brilliance, especially in the dialogue, but it never quite gets where it's going, and the pacing in the beginning is so uneven it was a bit of a slog to get through until they arrived in Mexico. Only for die-hard Heller fans. Check out her other work. I read this book thinking it was a new one from Zoe Heller, but Everything You Know is in fact her first book, written before Notes on a Scandal. It's not as well-crafted an effort—the structure not quite strong enough to sustain it even over just 200 pages—and I'm not sure that her main character (Willy Muller, a philandering fiftysomething writer best known for the book he wrote in the aftermath of being acquitted of his wife's murder, who lives in self-imposed exile from the UK and has nonexistent relationships with his two daughters) is ever sympathetic enough to engage the audience fully in his character arc. However, Heller shows a gift for character voices and for dialogue, and her prose is descriptive and original without being florid. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
Zoe Heller is well known for her column and features in the Sunday Times. In this, her first novel, an absentee father seeks redemption from his granddaughter after reading the diaries left to him by his dead daughter. No library descriptions found. |
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