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Sinossi
Al centro del romanzo una coppia: Russell "Crash" Calloway, un editor brillante e ambizioso, ma insoddisfatto della propria vita e del proprio lavoro, e la moglie, Corinne, una donna affascinante che lavora a Wall Street ma deve vedersela con le proprie contraddizioni. La loro vita scorre senza un attimo di tregua fra cene animate e party di lavoro, ma il loro matrimonio non va nel verso giusto. Russell e Corinne si allontanano l'uno dall'altra, lui sempre più attratto dal desiderio di nuove speranze sessuali, lei sempre più alla ricerca di un senso profondo da dare alla propria vita: un figlio, un lavoro diverso. Ma la storia non finisce senza un filo di speranza.
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- Pagine: 396
- Data di uscita: 09-02-2000
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Brightness Falls is a great American novel, which owes a great deal to F. Scott Fitzgerald and his Gatsby. At times, it seems as if McInerney wants to re-tell the Gatsby tale on Wall Street during the Crash of '87. McInerney's Nick Carraway is, after all, Crash Galloway. However, the meaning of this Leggi tutto
Have you ever attended a long cocktail party at an elegant hotel with crowds of well dressed people chattering while a piano player provides background music and after the ball is over find yourself at home with the vague impression that you have not actually been anywhere? If so, you have a good id Leggi tutto
this reminded me of how "the beautiful and damned" is technically better than "the great gatsby" but not as well-known. this is better than "bright lights, big city."
There were certainly slow points through this book (I actually reshelved it for many months). But considering it’s about a failing marriage in the late 80s it has many surprisingly prescient themes. Betrayal, divorce, drugs, death, economic collapse, careers, ennui, infidelity, friendship, white pri Leggi tutto
El maravilloso y complejo mundo de las relaciones sentimentales. El retrato de una época y un lugar perfectamente ambientado y descrito: el Nueva York de los ochenta, el de la vanidad, las fiestas sin control, las drogas, el de los brokers más ávidos... El libro muestra la forma de vivir de entonces Leggi tutto
Four stars for the first 200 pages of Brightness Falls. Great, but not quite up to McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City standards. Two stars for the mind-numbing, over-reaching, name-dropping middle hundred-or-so pages, during which I almost threw in the towel. Then perhaps a touch more twinkle than
Brightness Falls -- what an appropriate title. How could McInerney have gone from Bright Lights, a narrative tour de force, to this sprawling, turgid mess? Occasional sharp turns of phrase remind us of what he can do, but they're lost among excruciating passages of (sometimes repetitive) exposition
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