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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả
For Dawn Powell, "Good taste is the consolation for people who have nothing else." Her rapier wit stabs deeply into the pretensions of NYC publishing and its distasteful social whirlpools. Central figure Amanda Keeler is a malign, albeit beautiful, careerist who knows "there are so many things to be gained by trading on sex, and she thought so little of the process," yes -- she must use it again. After marrying the publisher of 16 newspapers she manages and manipulates him as he does her. The result: a mass of misunderstandings and misinformation, but let's not worry: there's another dinner party tonight for the "somebody's" and every smile, every hello must have its payoff. The only thing that can hurt is anonymity. Amanda pretends to welcome a girlhood friend from Ohio in order to reignite a pash w a "nobody" studlet whose ladder for climbing upward is propped against nothing. The confused fella, a sometime editor, believes that "any one foolish enough to make the world his oyster is courting ptomaine." These players are always staggered by "the slightest evidence of human civility." The New Face from Ohio, a reluctant virgin at 26, is ready to be plucked. Praising Dawn Powell, Edmund Wilson wrote that she died (1965), mostly unread, because women could not identify with her characters.Her ingenue is a simpleton, her fella is a moral weakling and Amanda - inspired, it's said, by Clare Boothe Luce - is a monster. If so, this is the book's problem: Amanda lacks the dangerous charm that radiated from Mrs L like nuclear energy. Powell's writing has been likened to that of Muriel Spark: deadly,deadpan and without sentiment. When a ditzed deb tells mum that her fiance is "a terrible bore," the ambitious parent cautions, "You mustnt say things like that -- not until you're married!"
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Tri Thức Việt
Great story to read with the little ones at bedtime. Very soothing narrative and soft, but realistic, colorful and often luminous pictures.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi:
complete and concise = greatness to me
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều tác giả
I think I finished this book but I had a hard time getting into it.
This was one of the 2005 RUSA Notable Books winners. For the complete list, go to http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/rus...
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Anh Tuan Le
Good play. Movie was good too. Too bad it's more a historical fiction in the spirit, rather than not as true as it might suggest. Mozart was human, and did work hard, rewrites, revisions, he didn't just write as if dictating, though not completely. He wasn't that poor as they portray. He was given a proper burial. And it is unlikely that Salieri murdered him. I forget the reasons why. Good play though. May be best as a movie though.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Minh Đức
She is so adorable artist.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: The Candy
ha ha. ha.
** spoiler alert ** The first story of this collection I found rather ridiculous. Although it starts out somewhat interesting, it turns out to be a super-heavy-handed metaphor in the end. The rest of the book, however... well, it's why I wanted to read it. Turns out, Batman has secret plans on how to defeat all his colleagues and friends, and of course Ra's al Ghul manages to use them to do some serious damage. It's a very Batman-like thing to do, of course, even though it is wrong. It does make sense from his perspective, but he really should've told them, I suppose. The ending was rather hard on my poor heart (I hate it when Batman and Superman fight for real), and I'm curious to see how/if this gets resolved. And I will never cease to be amazed by Nightwing's trust in Batman. Ah, those poor fucked up boys.
Just started today :D I'm already halfway finished and all I can give away is that there are about four deaths in the first ten pages! A mass serial killer is on the loose, a chain of extremely severe storms are breaking out, and five people must fend for themselves and each other from something bigger and more complicated than anything of their wildest dreams...
我喜欢它。 没关系 我对历史元素真的不太了解,但是我对故事情节和母子关系深深着迷。 书中有很多引述。
Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.