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"Dicono che a diciotto anni non sai niente. Ma ci sono cose che sai a diciotto anni e che non saprai mai più." Glasgow, estate 1986. Tra il carismatico Tully e il sensibile James, detto Noodles, c'è un legame fortissimo, un'amicizia fondata sulla musica, sui film, su un comune, luminoso spirito ribelle. Insieme agli amici Tibbs, Limbo e Hogg partono per un finesettimana destinato a non tradire le attese: andranno a Manchester, dove ci sono negozi di dischi, locali, un festival da leggenda, musica dappertutto (e alcol, e altro). Sono anni lividi, il grande sciopero dei minatori è un ricordo recente, vivere in provincia vuol dire rischiare di non andarsene mai. James, che ama i libri, e Tully, operaio saldatore, si promettono una cosa: che la loro vita sarà diversa. Trent'anni dopo squilla il telefono a casa di James. Tully deve parlargli. È malato, di una malattia inguaribile, chiede il suo aiuto per andarsene con dignità. Solo James può accompagnarlo lungo la strada più difficile. Un romanzo di memoria e verità, un tributo alla leggerezza dell'essere giovani e alla capacità di cambiare insieme, scoprendo le gioie e il prezzo dell'affetto quando è vero.
- ISBN: 8830105597
- Casa Editrice: Bompiani
- Pagine: 288
- Data di uscita: 16-03-2022
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This book read like poetry, from the first page to the last. No words will allow me to describe its beauty and poignancy. And so, I shall leave it to you to read it yourself, and tell me that you loved it, too.
I liked the beginning of this novel when we first meet James and Tully in their youth, as their friendship develops and we get to know their family circumstances. I loved their friendship and how Tully and his Mom looked out for James. I was so connected, but then I lost interest when they make a we Leggi tutto
Contrasts: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe and Mayflies by Andrew O’Hagan . Mayfly is a flying ephemeral insect living just for a day… Youth… Youth with all its flamboyance and angst… …being young is a kind of warfare in which the great enemy is experience. The last century… The middle Leggi tutto
Outlier here. I had a bit of a tough time with this Scottish novel. There were some very good things about this book, but the not so good things brought my rating down significantly. First the good. This is a storyline I hadn’t read before, so points for uniqueness. I connected (after a while) with t Leggi tutto
“He says it was all music and comedy” “It was. Plus a few films”“Now it’s all silence and death” Andrew O’Hagan has written five previous novels: his first was Booker shortlisted, his second (based around Lena Zavaroni) one Britain’s oldest literary prize (the James Tait Black Memorial), his thir Leggi tutto
"They say you know nothing at eighteen. But there are things you know at eighteen that you will never know again." This sad, nostalgic tale has an interesting structure. The first half is set in 1986, where a gang of rowdy Scottish teenagers head to Manchester for an unforgettable gig. The second
My problem with this novel was that I failed to relate to the main characters in the first half with the result that their sad story in the second half equally failed to engage me. Jimmy and Tully are young working-class “lads” when we first meet them and the first half of the book follows them and Leggi tutto
What a wonderful book. I finished this with tears in my eyes and a twist in my stomach. A book of two distinct halves, the first of which follows a group of young friends in 1986 Glasgow as they plan for a trip to Manchester G-Mex for a music festival - The Smiths, New Order et al. These lads, all in Leggi tutto
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