National Book Critics Circle Awards
Speedboat
The daily life of a young New York journalist, Jen Fain, is rendered through fragmentary observation and a highly mobile style.
Work Information
Urban details take on sharp contours as fragments accumulate.
The daily life of a young New York journalist, Jen Fain, is rendered through fragmentary observation and a highly mobile style. Shifts in voice and form sharpen the emotional tensions between the characters.
Book Information
- Language
- 英語
- ISBN-13
- 9780394488769
- ISBN-10
- 0394488768
- Price
- 13922 JPY
Amazon.co.jp: Speedboat : 本
Reviews
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Libro delicioso
Un libro sorprendente, hecho de digresiones, muy personal, encantador. No conocía nada de su autora, pero he disfrutado mucho leyéndolo. Recomendable para los que buscan algo más que esparcimiento o pasatiempos insulsos.
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liest sich sehr gut.
Macht Spaß die Geschichten/Gedanken dieser Frau zu folgen. Hat ihre eigene Art und auch eine Menge Sarkasmus die Welt und die Menschen zu beschreiben.
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There is no story
What a disappointment!. I have been waiting to read a nice short novel; picked up Speedboat. There is no story, just short anecdotes.
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Sublime
Unique, precise writing and observations, yet mysterious, tangentially connected disconnects, sublime
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Fantastically written.
As another reviewer notes, this isn't a novel. It's a series of vignettes, really, but they're all so beautifully written that you get transported into the moment, and then released into another, just as quickly. I love it, personally. It's the kind of book to dip into, here and there.