Love and Death on Long Island: A Novel
Ara 2007 · Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
E-kitap
144
Sayfa
family_home
Uygun
info
Bu e-kitap hakkında
A reserved British intellectual falls obsessively in love with a young American heartthrob, in this witty and poignant “tour de force” (Literary Review).
When he wanders into the wrong theater and finds himself watching the wretched teen-pic Hotpants College II, cerebral British author Giles De’Ath becomes romantically obsessed with dreamboat Ronnie Bostock. Giles’s infatuation drives him to the unthinkable: he reads American fan magazines and watches movies with titles like Tex Mex and Skid Marks. And finally, he travels to Long Island, intent on meeting Ronnie in the flesh.
The basis for the hit independent film starring Jason Priestley and John Hurt, Love and Death on Long Island is a brilliant and heartrending update of Thomas Mann’s early twentieth-century novella Death in Venice. It offers both a poignant meditation on passion, and “a very funny portrait of an extraordinarily unworldly academic’s introduction to the dizzyingly incomprehensible realm of popular culture” (Nick Hornby).
“Brief, pure, intense . . . The writing is masterly, the conjuring of contrasting worlds a triumph.” —The Financial Times
When he wanders into the wrong theater and finds himself watching the wretched teen-pic Hotpants College II, cerebral British author Giles De’Ath becomes romantically obsessed with dreamboat Ronnie Bostock. Giles’s infatuation drives him to the unthinkable: he reads American fan magazines and watches movies with titles like Tex Mex and Skid Marks. And finally, he travels to Long Island, intent on meeting Ronnie in the flesh.
The basis for the hit independent film starring Jason Priestley and John Hurt, Love and Death on Long Island is a brilliant and heartrending update of Thomas Mann’s early twentieth-century novella Death in Venice. It offers both a poignant meditation on passion, and “a very funny portrait of an extraordinarily unworldly academic’s introduction to the dizzyingly incomprehensible realm of popular culture” (Nick Hornby).
“Brief, pure, intense . . . The writing is masterly, the conjuring of contrasting worlds a triumph.” —The Financial Times
Yazar hakkında
“A literary gem, a tour de force . . . Beautifully constructed, superbly characterized. What disturbs is the sheer elegance of Adair’s prose style –– most of us had probably forgotten English could be written so well.” –– Literary Review (U.K.)
Bu e-kitaba puan verin
Düşüncelerinizi bizimle paylaşın.
Okuma bilgileri
Akıllı telefonlar ve tabletler
Android ve iPad/iPhone için Google Play Kitaplar uygulamasını yükleyin. Bu uygulama, hesabınızla otomatik olarak senkronize olur ve nerede olursanız olun çevrimiçi veya çevrimdışı olarak okumanıza olanak sağlar.
Dizüstü bilgisayarlar ve masaüstü bilgisayarlar
Bilgisayarınızın web tarayıcısını kullanarak Google Play'de satın alınan sesli kitapları dinleyebilirsiniz.
e-Okuyucular ve diğer cihazlar
Kobo eReader gibi e-mürekkep cihazlarında okumak için dosyayı indirip cihazınıza aktarmanız gerekir. Dosyaları desteklenen e-kitap okuyuculara aktarmak için lütfen ayrıntılı Yardım Merkezi talimatlarını uygulayın.
