Off Course - Softcover

Huneven, Michelle

3,39

1.071 Bewertungen von Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1250064457 ISBN 13: 9781250064455

Verlag: PICADOR, 2015

Alle Exemplare der Ausgabe mit dieser ISBN anzeigen:

Cr�ticas:

"Huneven's touch is sure . . . The landscape descriptions are erotic, and the erotic scenes have near-hallucinatory power." --The New Yorker

"Skillful and perceptive...A complex portrait of a woman under the influence: of love, then obsession." --The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)

"Huneven, a writer of great empathy and emotional precision, doesn't resort to cheap moralizing . . . She lets her characters play out their scenarios like real adults must--weighing the pleasures of the present against their own future guilt." --Los Angeles Times

"Michelle Huneven delivers an enthralling tale of impulsive decisions, impossible love, and catastrophic consequences." --Bustle

"Bring this to book clubs and test your friends' thresholds for reckless decisions." --Marie Claire

"Huneven has a sharp facility with language that registers both the horror of how low Cress lets herself sink and the mundanity of it all." --The Boston Globe

"[Huneven's] prose exudes such a rumpled, sensuous vibe, it practically gives you bedhead." --Los Angeles Magazine

"The greatest triumph of Off Course lies in Huneven's remarkable ability to create a mood, and to bring the reader fully inside it." --The Huffington Post

"Sensitive, reflective and uncomfortably true to life, with a wonderfully rich cast of supporting characters." --Kirkus (starred review)

"If I had to highlight just one of Huneven's many abundant talents, it would be this: She makes you forget that the people you're reading about don't actually exist. You feel as if you were reading about your own family and friends... Michelle Huneven has produced a literary miracle." --PopMatters

Rese�a del editor:

"From the author of Blame, a new novel about the unexpected damage inflicted by romantic entanglements. It's the early 1980s: Reagan is in the White House and his trickle-down theory is gaining traction in the national psyche. Cressida Hartley, twenty-eight, a PhD candidate in economics, has moved to her parents' shabby A-frame in the Sierras, hoping to finish her dissertation about art in the marketplace. Though she came seeking solitude, she finds herself increasingly drawn into the life of the small mountain community, and she's seduced by a local lodge owner, Jakey Yates, a big, burly, immensely attractive man in his late forties. Rick Garsh, the local contractor, gives Cress a part time job. Through Rick she meets the Morrow brothers, two talented fine-finish carpenters. They are handsome, amusing, intriguing, and married. As Cress tells her best friend back home in Pasadena, being a single woman on the mountain amounts to a form of public service. Increasingly uninspired by her dissertation, Cress allows love, adultery, and obsession to commandeer her life, and soon she becomes the victim of her own perilous reasoning. Michelle Huneven is one of our most searching, elegant novelists--Richard Russo has called her "a writer of extraordinary and thrilling talent." In Off Course, she tells the cautionary tale of an intelligent young woman seeking her place in life only to discover that love is the great distraction, and impossible love the greatest distraction of all"--

��ber diesen Titel� kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.