bookmate game
en
Jeffrey Eugenides

Fresh Complaint

Повідомити про появу
Щоб читати цю книжку, завантажте файл EPUB або FB2 на Букмейт. Як завантажити книжку?
{"strong"=>["AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR", “AN EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR”], “br”=>[nil]}
{"em"=>[{"strong"=>["‘What was it about complaining that felt so good? You and your fellow sufferer emerging from a thorough session as if from a spa bath, refreshed and tingling?’"]}]}
The first-ever collection of short stories from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey Eugenides presents characters in the midst of personal and national emergencies.
We meet Kendall, a failed poet who, envious of other people’s wealth during the real estate bubble, becomes an embezzler; and Mitchell, a lovelorn liberal arts graduate on a search for enlightenment; and Prakrti, a high school student whose wish to escape the strictures of her family leads to a drastic decision that upends the life of a middle-aged academic.
Jeffrey Eugenides’s bestselling novels Middlesex, The Virgin Suicides and The Marriage Plot have shown him to be an astute observer of the crises of adolescence, self-discovery and family love. These stories, from one of our greatest authors, explore equally rich and intriguing territory.
Narratively compelling and beautifully written, Fresh Complaint shows all of Eugenides’s trademark humour, compassion and complex understanding of what it is to be human.
Ця книжка зараз недоступна
285 паперових сторінок
Дата публікації оригіналу
2017
Рік виходу видання
2017
Уже прочитали? Що скажете?
👍👎

Враження

  • Natalia Sedovaділиться враженням4 роки тому
    🙈Нічого не зрозумів
    💤Нудна

Цитати

  • Gleb Krauklishцитує5 років тому
    No one knew what the original music sounded like. You had to make an educated guess and do the best you could. For whatever you played there was no indisputable tuning or handwritten schematic, and the visa you needed in order to see the Master’s keyboard was always denied. Sometimes you thought you heard the music, especially when you were young, and then you spent the rest of your life trying to reproduce the sound.
    Everybody’s life was early music.
  • Gleb Krauklishцитує5 років тому
    Why was what Rodney did a job and what Rebecca did not a job? First of all, Rodney made money. Second, he had to warp his personality to suit his employer. Third, he disliked it. That was a sure sign that it was a job.
  • Gleb Krauklishцитує5 років тому
    West Berlin wasn’t what Rodney had expected. It was nothing like early music. West Berlin was completely irrational and unmathematical, not stiff but loose. It was full of war widows, draft dodgers, squatters, anarchists. Rodney didn’t like the cigarette smoke. The beer made him feel bloated. So he escaped, going as often as he could to the Philharmonie or the Deutsche Oper.
fb2epub
Перетягніть файли сюди, не більш ніж 5 за один раз