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Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

01.10.2019

Verlag

Granta Publications

Seitenzahl

282

Maße (L/B/H)

21,6/13,4/2 cm

Gewicht

285 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-78378-572-8

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

01.10.2019

Verlag

Granta Publications

Seitenzahl

282

Maße (L/B/H)

21,6/13,4/2 cm

Gewicht

285 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-78378-572-8

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Very personal and reminiscent

Bewertung aus Wien am 15.01.2021

Bewertungsnummer: 1264754

Bewertet: Buch (Taschenbuch)

I'm also from Kansas and was born just six months before this author, so stumbling across this book at the store was a huge surprise. This book mentioned many things that took me back to my past, and it could be that it meant more to me than most other readers of this book, so my rating of the book is a bit biased.

Very personal and reminiscent

Bewertung aus Wien am 15.01.2021
Bewertungsnummer: 1264754
Bewertet: Buch (Taschenbuch)

I'm also from Kansas and was born just six months before this author, so stumbling across this book at the store was a huge surprise. This book mentioned many things that took me back to my past, and it could be that it meant more to me than most other readers of this book, so my rating of the book is a bit biased.

The Topeka School

Miss.mesmerized am 03.02.2021

Bewertungsnummer: 1252292

Bewertet: Buch (Gebundene Ausgabe)

Adam Gordon is about finishing highschool, the only thing left to do are the final competitions in debating where he is a master and expected to become national champion. His parents have never paid much attention to this, even though they are psychoanalysts, really paying attention to the other family members seems to be something they cannot master. They are too much occupied with themselves, Adam‘s mother Jane who suffers from the lack of professional recognition, or their patients, Adam‘s father Jonathan who works with aggressive teenagers. I really adore Ben Lerner‘s style of writing, he is one of those contemporary storytellers I appreciate most, yet I struggle with bringing his latest novel to the point. It is narrated from three different points of views, his parents are talking in first person to the reader directly and Adam‘s story is narrated by a third person narrator. Between the chapters, the story of Darren, a teenager whi struggels mentally, is told. Even after having finished I am not sure what to make of this. Is this meant to underline the parents‘ egocentristic view which keeps them at a certain distance from their son? I do not know. Somehow the novel is a bit ecelctic, many pondering-worth topics are addressed, like e.g. how to cope with micro-aggressions and anxieties, what you remember and what your brain makes of these memories, talking to an analyst vs. talking to a friend, typical coming-of-age problems, feminism is a huge topic for Jane since she blames the lack of professional recognition mainly to the fact that she is a woman (which might well be the case). After all, maybe it is all about language and how dominance is expressed with words. For the male characters, they often babble without providing any serious content, but nevertheless, they dominate the discourse. Women like Jane are forced to rather retreat into themselves and talk to a fictitious reader or themselves, it is not for them to speak up in public. A lot of food for thought and this toxic masculinity which is addressed surely is one of the hottest topics in 2019.

The Topeka School

Miss.mesmerized am 03.02.2021
Bewertungsnummer: 1252292
Bewertet: Buch (Gebundene Ausgabe)

Adam Gordon is about finishing highschool, the only thing left to do are the final competitions in debating where he is a master and expected to become national champion. His parents have never paid much attention to this, even though they are psychoanalysts, really paying attention to the other family members seems to be something they cannot master. They are too much occupied with themselves, Adam‘s mother Jane who suffers from the lack of professional recognition, or their patients, Adam‘s father Jonathan who works with aggressive teenagers. I really adore Ben Lerner‘s style of writing, he is one of those contemporary storytellers I appreciate most, yet I struggle with bringing his latest novel to the point. It is narrated from three different points of views, his parents are talking in first person to the reader directly and Adam‘s story is narrated by a third person narrator. Between the chapters, the story of Darren, a teenager whi struggels mentally, is told. Even after having finished I am not sure what to make of this. Is this meant to underline the parents‘ egocentristic view which keeps them at a certain distance from their son? I do not know. Somehow the novel is a bit ecelctic, many pondering-worth topics are addressed, like e.g. how to cope with micro-aggressions and anxieties, what you remember and what your brain makes of these memories, talking to an analyst vs. talking to a friend, typical coming-of-age problems, feminism is a huge topic for Jane since she blames the lack of professional recognition mainly to the fact that she is a woman (which might well be the case). After all, maybe it is all about language and how dominance is expressed with words. For the male characters, they often babble without providing any serious content, but nevertheless, they dominate the discourse. Women like Jane are forced to rather retreat into themselves and talk to a fictitious reader or themselves, it is not for them to speak up in public. A lot of food for thought and this toxic masculinity which is addressed surely is one of the hottest topics in 2019.

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