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Indlæser... Dancing on Coralaf Glenda Adams
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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. I thought it was a stupid story. I don't know how I finished it. Maybe I kept hoping that the characters would become a bit more understandable but they just got more annoying. I chose this book because it won the Miles Franklin but all I can say is ' there could not have been much choice that year. Glenda Adams's novel was winner of the NSW Premier's Award in 1987, and the Miles Franklin in 1988. The reviews depicted this as a subtle and very funny novel, parodying the psychobabble and political tenor of the 1960s. There is no doubt it made for an interesting and, at times amusing read. However, for me, it certainly did not live up to the promise implicit in the major awards and the high praise of the critics. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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Lark Watter, the student daughter of Henry and Mrs Watter embarks on a voyage of self-discovery with a mixture of courage and innocent hopefulness - her ensuing adventures are full of profound comedy and people by awful characters, and all is related with Adams' trademark zany wit, sophistication and narrative exuberance. No library descriptions found. |
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Lark stumbles into this bunch of pseudo-intellectuals when she meets her first American. Sprung at the cash register for hiding an extra pat of butter under her roll to save the extra penny, she is defended by Tom Brown:
Tom is studying urban anthropology. He's a social theorist and, in his spare time, a critic of society. And when Lark timidly suggests that the 'anthropological' activities of Tom's mentor Manfred Bird in the Pacific makes him a plunderer, stealing art from societies that couldn't protect themselves', she is promptly patronised by Bird's daughter Donna (who turns out to be Lark's nemesis):
Tom suggests that they take Lark on as a 'project.'
Well, they do, and it mostly consists of getting involved in dubious pranks, infantile protests, a lot of long-winded pompous rhetoric from Tom while Lark fends off drunken advances from young men who lecture her about not perpetuating outdated morality.
Lark doesn't really know what she wants to do but the one thing that she craves, is to leave Australia. Her parents are eccentrics but life, as far as she can tell, is lived elsewhere, and so she applies uselessly for jobs which offer free travel. Her interview at Qantas is cringeworthy: she is told that "in addition to a deep desire to serve others, our hostesses have to be good-looking girls. The best of the crop."
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