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Indlæser... Wild Child: and Other Stories (2010)af T.C. Boyle
   Top Five Books of 2013 (1,158) Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog.   ) usuallee | Oct 7, 2021 |  ) ChrisNewton | Mar 18, 2016 |  ) poingu | Jan 29, 2015 |  ) DeniseToby | Feb 26, 2014 | I was put in mind a little of the story of - The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser - in that the reader is introduced to a feral child with no language, no education, no self-awareness, no shame, no family, and so on. The story - based on the early 19th century true story of Victor of Aveyron - tells of how one man of inexhaustible patience attempts to 'civilise' a 'savage' child. Abandoned by a parent who bungled their attempt to slit the child's throat, Victor had grown up alone in woodlands, living in nature, eating uncooked vegetables, fruits, and occasional tastes of raw meat. Eventually, as rumours of occasional sightings grew in number, the boy is captured and taken in to post-revolutionary French life. What follows is a catalogue of incidents, some progressive, some regressive, which retell how he is passed from one institution to the next until he eventually arrives into the care of a young and ambitious academic at the National Institute for the Deaf in Paris. Efforts to impart some form of belated education on Victor are largely unsuccessful, although there are momentary breakthroughs. It is an interesting and ultimately tragic tale. The writer narrated my audiobook and that was a big plus. I'd certainly like to read other stories by T. C. Boyle. (  ) Polaris- | Oct 29, 2013 |
 At his best Mr. Boyle gives us strobe-lit documentaries of these crucial moments in his characters’ lives, as they clamber up the steps to the circus high wire, put one foot on the tightrope, take a deep breath and push off. Of course, there will be some who find Boyle's palette garish, his characters cartoonish, his narrative fireworks mere antics of a strutting virtuoso. But Boyle is the closest thing we have to a modern-day Washington Irving, that American storyteller par excellence who found a perfect balance between art and pop, and who lived and worked not far from Boyle's own boyhood home along the Hudson River.  In most of these stories, Boyle seems interested in doing little more than hammering together a setup, sporting with it for a page or two, then pinching things off before his characters can spit the bits from their mouths and take things in directions of their own uncalculated choosing. In an assortment of tales concerned with nature’s wondrous insurgencies, it’s hard not to feel let down that Boyle largely refuses to let his stories jump the corral and take off running for the big dark woods beyond. Indeholder
With trademark imagination, T.C. Boyle presents a collection of fourteen short stories. In the volume's title story, Victor, a feral boy in Napoleonic France, is captured and is introduced to civilization for the first time. However it is the child't captors that end up learning the most about humanity and civility. No library descriptions found. |
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