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Olivia Laings erster Roman ist eine brillante, witzige und in jeder Hinsicht rohe Darstellung unserer Gegenwart und hebelt elegant die Angst vor der Zukunft aus. »Ein Liebesbrief an das Leben und die Kunst« (Deborah Levy).
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This book was just brilliant! Can‘t imagine any more up-to-dateness and really really loved the writing style.
Oct 24, 2023
This book was just brilliant! Can‘t imagine any more up-to-dateness and really really loved the writing style.
Oct 24, 2023
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I don’t usually like “modern” books written by women. The stream of consciousness thing doesn’t do it for me, I like paragraphs and punctuation. Fortunately Laing kept enough for this to be readable (im looking at you, milkman) and the stream of consciousness is often very funny. I have also never relates harder to a POV character than to this: “In the restaurant Kathy and her husband had a huge fight. It started because she put four of his prosciutto and fit ciabattas on her plate. Her husband was furious but Kathy’s fury as ever was larger and less ambiguous. ... anyway they sorted it out, after shed banished him alone to the lobby for 45 minutes, while she examined the world by way of her scrying glass, Twitter.”
Dec 31, 2022
I don’t usually like “modern” books written by women. The stream of consciousness thing doesn’t do it for me, I like paragraphs and punctuation. Fortunately Laing kept enough for this to be readable (im looking at you, milkman) and the stream of consciousness is often very funny. I have also never relates harder to a POV character than to this: “In the restaurant Kathy and her husband had a huge fight. It started because she put four of his prosciutto and fit ciabattas on her plate. Her husband was furious but Kathy’s fury as ever was larger and less ambiguous. ... anyway they sorted it out, after shed banished him alone to the lobby for 45 minutes, while she examined the world by way of her scrying glass, Twitter.”
Dec 31, 2022
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Olivia Laing, geboren 1977, »meisterhafte Biograf*in, Memoirschreiber*in und Essayist*in« (Helen MacDonald), studierte Englische Literatur an der Universität von Sussex. Laing brach das Studium ab, um auf einem Baum in der Wildnis zu leben und ein Diplom in Pflanzenheilkunde zu erwerben und sich anschließend dem Journalismus zuzuwenden. Laings Bücher sind in über zwanzig Sprachen übersetzt. 2018 erhielt Olivia Laing den renommierten Windham-Campbell-Preis.
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