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Oggi Sono Tua (2009)

by Mary Gaitskill(Favorite Author)

3.54 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

8806206850 (ISBN13: 9788806206857)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Einaudi

review 1: Patchy to be honest. I was a huge fan of Mary Gaitskill when I was young. I remember 'Two Girls: One fat, One Thin' having a big effect on me - that women could write this tough! But as she's grown older Gaitskill has tumbled into a sort of psycho-babble adolescent world. Her characters are often a bunch of whiners. If she was out and out satirising them you could appreciate what she is doing, but more often than not you feel she sympathises. The book is saved by a great story about a Vietnam & Iraqi Vet. Worth picking up for that alone.
review 2: Three stories in and I'm quitting. Gaitskill could be edited into a writer I'd like, but many of her carefully turned phrases come off labored and prissy, bad news for a writer who prides herself on being "dark." A fe... morew I'd never care to read again: "his brain glowing inside it like magic stones," "the kind of secret the turtles are, even to themselves," "his terrible story a tiny, burning star in the rightful firmament of her female vastness." Enough. less

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