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Cecilia Ceriani

    The Summer Without Men
    Hollywood, Hollywood!
    Breakfast of Champions
    • The Summer Without Men

      • 216pagine
      • 8 ore di lettura

      Out of the blue, your husband of thirty years asks you for a pause in your marriage to indulge his infatuation with a young Frenchwoman. Do you: a) assume it's a passing affair and play along b) angrily declare the marriage over c) crack up d) retreat to a safe haven and regroup? Mia Fredricksen cracks up first, then decamps for the summer to the prairie town of her childhood, where she rages, fumes, and bemoans her sorry fate as abandoned spouse. But little by little, she is drawn into the lives of those around her: her mother and her circle of feisty widows; her young neighbour, with two small children and a loud, angry husband; and the diabolical pubescent girls in her poetry class. By the end of the summer without men, wiser though definitely not sadder, Mia knows what she wants to fight for and on whose terms.

      The Summer Without Men2020
      3,5
    • “Marvelous . . . [Vonnegut] wheels out all the complaints about America and makes them seem fresh, funny, outrageous, hateful and lovable.”—The New York Times In Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut’s most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. What follows is murderously funny satire, as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth. “Free-wheeling, wild and great . . . uniquely Vonnegut.”—Publishers Weekly

      Breakfast of Champions1999
      4,1
    • Che cosa succede al più famoso dissacratore del "sogno americano" quando un regista gli anticipa una bella somma per scrivere una sceneggiatura? Bene, dietro consiglio del suo consulente fiscale, Chinaski/Bukowski si compra una Bmw nera ("Le Bmw nere sono le macchine dei duri" dice) e una casa ("Se vi dicono altrimenti non credeteci. La vita comincia a 65 anni" spiega quando ne è in possesso). Una moglie molto più giovane di lui ce l'ha già ("Mandata dagli dei ad allungarmi di dieci anni la vita. Nel bene e nel male"). Sembrerebbe che anche il cantore e cronista degli emarginati e dei disadattati d'America si sia integrato. E che proprio come la maggior parte dei suoi lettori di vent'anni fa sia rientrato - anzi entrato per la prima volta - nel sistema. Ma non è detto.

      Hollywood, Hollywood!1994
      3,8