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Sinossi
Boyle ci porta all'interno dei ristoranti alla moda di Manhattan, ossessionati dai critici gastronomici, e ci racconta le traversie di un cuoco e dei suoi piatti. Ecco i "reduci" degli anni Sessanta, i creatori di immagine pronti a tutto, o gli agenti hollywoodiani trafitti nel racconto "La mosca umana". O ancora i rampolli Wasp attratti, loro malgrado, dal "calore" delle altre etnie, o la solitudine degli ultimi machos. Non mancano storie intrise di dolore, di una tristezza mite e consapevole: dalla dolce follia di una vecchia signora maltrattata dal marito e dalla vita, all'improvvisa maturazione di un bambino che assiste impotente alla morte dell'amore dei suoi genitori...
- ISBN: 8806150723
- Casa Editrice: Einaudi
- Pagine: 222
- Data di uscita: 06-02-2001
Recensioni
Fierce food critic "Willa Frank never liked anything. She'd slip into a restaurant like a spy, a murderess..." You'll meet Willa in another fine collection of stories by Boyle in which plausible characters in familiar situs gradually somersault into bizarre or extreme or hilarious conditions. Among
4.5 overall. Mostly 5-star stories in this 16-story collection which served as my intro to T.C. Boyle. Being top-notch 12 out of 16 times ain't nothin' to sneeze at. I'm bowled over by the breadth of this guy's imagination; it seems limitless. He's also rather handy with his color-building research
Some really good stories here. Midway through the book, started becoming frustrated with how all of the female characters are portrayed and it kind of soured it for me. Definitely has the feel that it was written by a guy back in the '80s.
***1/2
This book, at least for me, captures that wonderful nihilistic "punk" aesthetic of the 80's seen in movies like "Repot Man", "The River's Edge" and "Return of the Living Dead". I mean, it's soo cynical about everything. So that when it does aim for a story about mourning a loved one or an alcoholic
Albert D'Angelo was born to eat and so was I. The descriptions of the food really made me hungry. I thought this story was a great way to depict "restaurant life" if you have every worked in a restaurant or are a foody I think you can appreciate all the quirks Boyle talks about. Some nights a restau Leggi tutto
I enjoy reading T.C. Boyle for his poignancy, imagination, satire and humor. "If the River Was Whiskey" is a magical and provocative group of short stories that will leave you appreciating this author's talent to tell stories that are unimaginable such as the one about a stuntman who rides cross-cou Leggi tutto
Very entertaining collection of blackly comic stories, my favourite of which were 'King Bee', in which a couple adopt the child from hell, and 'The Ape Lady in Retirement', about a Jane Goodall-like character who returns to her small American hometown after years in Africa, bringing with her a badly Leggi tutto
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