Funny girl
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Nell’Inghilterra degli anni Sessanta spopola l’attrice televisiva Sophie Straw, ex reginetta di bellezza di un paesino del Nord, che ha tagliato i ponti con la famiglia per trasferirsi nella Swinging London, inseguendo il sogno di far ridere la gente. Insieme a lei, l’affiatatissima squadra che lavora alla serie della BBC Barbara (e Jim), di cui è la protagonista. E Sophie si troverà a recitare un copione di scena troppo simile a quello della sua vita, e dovrà decidere che tipo di donna essere, e che tipo di uomo scegliere, in un mondo in cui anche le donne sperimentano nuovi ruoli e una nuova libertà…
- ISBN: 8823517354
- Casa Editrice: Guanda
- Pagine: 384
- Data di uscita: 13-04-2017
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Never before has the time-worn critic's trope "Show, don't tell" been more utterly ignored than by Nick Hornby and his ambitious, yet thoroughly lackluster (and curiously unfunny) novel about British televised comedy in the 1960's-'70s, Funny Girl . I admire Hornby's vision here; his drive to present Leggi tutto
Speaking at a college campus a few years ago, I joked about feeling like Lucy in the chocolate factory, and an undergraduate asked me when Lucy Hale worked in a chocolate factory. It was one of those moments when you suddenly picture yourself stooped and holding an ear trumpet. As a child, I watched Leggi tutto
I'm such a big fan of Nick Hornby and this book is such a disappointment. I'd almost prefer not to provide a review. I have looked forward to this book for months now and received it from Penguin's First to Read. Perhaps the problem is with the narrator providing such distance from the characters th Leggi tutto
3.5— (read in 2018– typo fixed in 2023… 😎) What I love about Nick Hornby is that he really gets how messy people are— in and out of love. Step back 50+ years and you’ll find a cast of characters that will charm, confuse, humor and annoy you. Each and every one looking for love in 1960s London. I ador Leggi tutto
How he does it, I don’t know, but Nick Hornby creates interesting characters and turns them into human beings we actually care about. In Funny Girl, he does it while successfully evoking a whole era – early sixties London on the cusp of change, from a dour post-war Britain to a world where anything Leggi tutto
You know how there's that cliche question of "If you could have dinner with anyone at all, dead or alive, who would you choose?" and then your answer is supposed to establish a whole bunch of things about who you are or your compatibility with someone or something? Well, my fantasy dinner guest has
This book was one that I wished I had stopped reading a quarter of the way through but I kept hoping it would get better. It didn't. The author's characters were so underdeveloped that I truly didn't care what happened to them. This was basically a story about...nothing. I found it very boring.
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