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Loading... Paradise News (edition 1993)by David Lodge
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Muito bom ( ) Un prêtre défroqué d'une quarantaine d'années accompagne son Irlandais de père à Hawaï au chevet d'une soeur que son père a perdu de vue depuis des années et qui se meurt. Il y fera bien malgré lui l'apprentissage des choses de la vie. Un roman vif et drôle qui se moque du tourisme organisé et des moeurs britanniques, mais qui aborde aussi les thèmes de la mort, de la vie familiale et de l'épanouissement sexuel avec une délicatesse et une pénétration inattendues. Not quite up to the standard of Thinks or Therapy, but solid. A bit more on the domestic comedy side, but still insightful and funny. Those avidly seeking further evidence of Lodge's sexism will probably find something here. But it's not the sort of sexism that most feminists write home about, I don't imagine. The story of a middle aged man who happens to be a virgin who travels to Hawaii to visit a dying Aunt and to attempt to reconcile her with her brother, his father. A number of characters are introduced along the way from his fellow passengers on the flight out to local people. Lodge is a good writer and this was an enjoyable book. no reviews | add a review
A group of British tourists set out from a congested Heathrow to their package holiday. Hawaii, and more particularly the high-rise tourist ghetto of Waikiki, is the stage on which the fortunes of this range of characters cross and occasionally collide. The author also wrote Nice Work. No library descriptions found. |
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