Drop City: T.C. Boyle - Brossura

Boyle, T. C.

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ISBN 10: 1526608898 ISBN 13: 9781526608895

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019

Riassunto

'One of the funniest, most subtle novels we've had about the hippy era's slow fade to black ... this may be his most affecting emotionally complex novel' (New York Times Book Review)

Star has travelled to Drop City - forty-seven sun-washed acres of commune in California - to be free from her home, from society's constraints, and to feel part of something important. But she starts to suspect that free love was invented by some spotty dude who couldn't get laid any other way, and that chilled out means lazy. And as for peace-living, there seems to be an ugly undercurrent of violence. Then, when rape charges are brought and the police threaten to close down Drop City, the hippies decamp to the wilds of Alaska where they intend to live off the land. But instead the community runs into trouble, unexpected friendships are made and dangerous enemies are born.

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Recensione:

Boyle's riveting new novel lays bare the raw reality behind the city-dweller's romantic dream of living at one with nature (The Times)

Lively, intelligent, wonderfully written (Observer)

Writing on the top of his form ... hugely enjoyable ... thoroughly gripping (Daily Telegraph)

One of the funniest, most subtle novels we've had about the hippy era's slow fade to black ... this may be his most affecting emotionally complex novel ... This may be his most affecting and emotionally complex novel (New York Times Book Review)

Boyle is a maverick talent ... tension is maintained by a series of gripping conflicts until the reader finally emerges with despair and admiration for the human spirit (Daily Mail)

A vastly entertaining tale that balances the exuberance and the excesses, the promise and the preposterousness of the counterculture perhaps better than any other work of American fiction (Los Angeles Times Book Review)

Not only an entertaining romp through the madness of the countercultural '70s, but a stirring parable about the American dream as well (New York Times)

Exhilarating ... Drop City is a marvel of construction with a champion omniscient narrator (Independent)

Anything goes in Boyle's imaginative world, so long as it is raw, elemental and in excess (Sunday Telegraph)

Comedy, tragedy and more great sentences than seems entirely fair. Boyle's not exactly unknown, but it's high time he was deified. Marvellous (Uncut)

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'One of the funniest, most subtle novels we've had about the hippy era's slow fade to black ... this may be his most affecting emotionally complex novel' (New York Times Book Review)

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• Editore: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1526608898
• ISBN 13: 9781526608895
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 464