Bitter In The Mouth - Brossura

Truong, Monique

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0701177586 ISBN 13: 9780701177584

Casa editrice: Chatto & Windus, 2010

Riassunto

'The truth about my family is that we disappointed one another. When I hear the word "disappoint" I taste toast, slightly burnt.'

Growing up in Boiling Springs, North Carolina, in the '70s and '80s, Linda Hammerick knows that she is different. She has strong, almost paralysing associations between words and tastes; she doesn't look like everyone else; and she isn't popular at school. She finds her way through life with the help of her great uncle 'Baby' Harper, who loves her and loves to dance, and her best friend fat-thin-fat Kelly with whom she has been exchanging letters since they were seven. Her adoring father considers himself a Reasonable Man, but turns out to be just a man, with a weak heart. Even as Linda escapes her vengeful grandmother and her semi-detached mother, to go north, she still doesn't know the truth about her past, until a tragedy and the revelation that follows make her question everything she thought she knew about herself and her family.

Truong draws on her own experience as a child of Vietnamese parents in a small Southern town to give us an intricate, irresistible novel about a young woman discovering who she is and where she belongs.

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Recensione:

"Monique Truong creates a world so subtle, mysterious, moving and sensory that it heightens our consciousness of those qualities our own. Bitter in the Mouth is the rare novel that makes one life story unique and universal at the same time." (Gloria Steinem)

Descrizione del libro:

A beguilingly original Southern gothic family novel with a sharp and minty twist, by an acclaimed writer with a sensual, surprising imagination and a compelling way with words

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Chatto & Windus
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0701177586
• ISBN 13: 9780701177584
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 282