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Julia Claiborne Johnson

Författare till Be Frank With Me

2 verk 1,007 medlemmar 120 recensioner

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Inkluderar namnet: Julia Claiborne Johnson

Verk av Julia Claiborne Johnson

Be Frank With Me (2016) 765 exemplar
Better Luck Next Time (2021) 242 exemplar

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Födelsedag
20th century
Kön
female
Nationalitet
USA
Födelseort
Tennessee, USA
Bostadsorter
Tennessee, USA
New York, New York, USA
Los Angeles, California, USA
Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
Utbildning
University of Virginia
Boston University
Relationer
Marcil, Chris (husband)
Kort biografi
Julia Claiborne Johnson is the author of the bestselling Be Frank with Me, a finalist for the American Bookseller’s Association Best Debut Novel Award. She grew up on a farm in Tennessee before moving to New York City, where she worked at Mademoiselle and Glamour magazines. She now lives in Los Angeles with her comedy-writer husband and their two children.

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Very original and rather charming for the most part.
 
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Kim.Sasso | 82 andra recensioner | Aug 27, 2023 |
Riveting language and metaphors even though lacking in emotional gravitas.
 
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GordonPrescottWiener | 82 andra recensioner | Aug 24, 2023 |
When I put books on my to-read list, I usually write a few sentence synopsis. For this I had:

"A precocious child protagonist, who may be autistic, his child-minder, his famous novelist mother and somewhere, a plot. It's quirky! And zany! And hopefully not ridiculously twee."

Pretty much sums it up. It is a little twee -- Frank is not really an accurate portrait of an autist, as much as a portrait of an idealized-self-insert sort of child: extra precocious, loved by adults and with preternatural insight -- but in a cute way.

I often look for flawed characters that the reader nonetheless comes to really like, and Be Frank With Me really excels at that. All of the characters are substantially flawed but likeable and them coming together as something that resembles a family of choice feels really satisfying.
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settingshadow | 82 andra recensioner | Aug 19, 2023 |
I can't recall anything about it now.
 
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mykl-s | 82 andra recensioner | Aug 13, 2023 |

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Statistik

Verk
2
Medlemmar
1,007
Popularitet
#25,604
Betyg
3.8
Recensioner
120
ISBN
31
Språk
3

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