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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. While not yet a large enough collection to call a subgenre, several books have appeared in the past few years with enough in common to hint at one. Their authors seem to have sublimated the lessons of postmodernism and used them to reinvent the novel of family life. Think of Franzen’s The Corrections and perhaps also Eugenides’s Middlesex, and now add Great Neck to the list. All of these are as ambitious as their ancestors in their willingness to sprawl, and they explode the details of domesticity across their many pages. Cantor’s contribution concerns the residents of the eponymous Long Island suburb, particularly a group of privileged, mostly Jewish friends who pass from childhood into adulthood as the civil-rights movement of the sixties and seventies unfolds. Obviously, political and racial themes are prominent—one character states, “if the body on trial is a black one, then justice is always far from blind. Criminal justice is always only criminal politics�?—but the real interest here is in the way the characters are built through a steady accretion of observation and incident. The book is densely written, with a knotty chronology that takes a step back every time it takes two steps forward, and in its surfeit of detail it captures the sense of living through an almost paralyzing era that featured far too much to think about and do. Reading Great Neck requires almost the same amount of effort as living a life; those who are willing to work will find that Cantor’s created a rewarding plenitude. ( ) inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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In 1960, a group of friends are plucked from their sixth grade classroom in privileged Great Neck, Long Island and confronted for the first time with the horrors of the Holocaust. They hear a challenge from the past, a cry from history to set the world on a better course; but it is the murder of a much-loved older brother during Mississippi’s Freedom Summer that makes their mission clear. From the front line of the civil rights movement to Andy Warhol’s New York art scene, from comic book superheroes to the violent maelstrom of the Weather Underground, Great Neck immerses us in a charged time not so long ago, and illuminates the lives of those who were shaped by its energies and ideals. Vigorous, funny, profound and altogether gripping, it is a masterpiece of contemporary literature. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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