Closer
Autor Miriam Gershowen Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 iun 2025
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781646035892
ISBN-10: 1646035895
Pagini: 280
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: Regal House Publishing
Colecția Regal House Publishing
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 1646035895
Pagini: 280
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: Regal House Publishing
Colecția Regal House Publishing
Locul publicării:United States
Recenzii
This novel is amazing! Post-millennial culture pays lip service to diversity, but Closer gives meaning to the term. In powerful prose vignettes that read like poems, Gershow rounds up the usual suspects—race, gender, generation, religion, income, disability, sexuality—but gives voice and perspective to characters who insist on being human—often maddeningly so. Gershow both sounds the notes of our time and echoes Thoreau's timeless "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."
Miriam Gershow’s propulsive novel, Closer, is a fearless tour-de-force of imagination and empathy. Racist bullying of interracial high school sweethearts in a liberal, majority-white university town opens the story. Gershow’s quicksilver shifts in points of view deepen it, illustrating how we yearn to be seen for who want ourselves to be, while carelessly using the markers of race, class, education, and ability to marginalize and minimize others. Serious stuff, but one of Gershow’s many gifts is writing funny, making us love the relatable characters in Closer even when they flip-flop between perceptive and clued-out, and barrel toward tragedy.
Miriam Gershow has her finger on the pulse of high school angst and the forever adolescent who resides in every one of us. Her characters are so tender, flawed, and deeply real, we can’t help but root for them as they chase the alluring spell of true love. At the same time, we feel the mounting dread of all that this spell endangers. Like Tom Perotta’s Little Children without the satire, Closer dismantles illusions of parental ability to protect their offspring’s inner lives – or their own. Children of all ages will fall prey to love’s illusions in this multigenerational tragedy.
Miriam Gershow has written a work of extraordinary breadth and depth, filled with delicious scenes of carefree teenage infatuation and middleage lust. I’m awed by Gershow’s funny and detailed rendering of the twined lives of these likable dupes, none of whom see the dark future coming until it’s too late.
With warmth and humor, Gershow deftly navigates a tangled web of crisscrossing landmines— family, friendship, class, race, adolescence, and love. It is a combustible stew that a lesser writer might shy from, but Gershow attacks these thorny topics head on. With multidimensional, nuanced characters and gorgeous, propulsive prose, this is a story that will stay with readers long after the shocking, heart-stopping end.
Miriam Gershow's moving novel Closer asks how we know and love one another. Her characters are vibrant and believable and the world they inhabit is an awful lot like our own — full of uneasy questions and loving approximations that feel like, but may not be, understanding."
Miriam Gershow’s propulsive novel, Closer, is a fearless tour-de-force of imagination and empathy. Racist bullying of interracial high school sweethearts in a liberal, majority-white university town opens the story. Gershow’s quicksilver shifts in points of view deepen it, illustrating how we yearn to be seen for who want ourselves to be, while carelessly using the markers of race, class, education, and ability to marginalize and minimize others. Serious stuff, but one of Gershow’s many gifts is writing funny, making us love the relatable characters in Closer even when they flip-flop between perceptive and clued-out, and barrel toward tragedy.
Miriam Gershow has her finger on the pulse of high school angst and the forever adolescent who resides in every one of us. Her characters are so tender, flawed, and deeply real, we can’t help but root for them as they chase the alluring spell of true love. At the same time, we feel the mounting dread of all that this spell endangers. Like Tom Perotta’s Little Children without the satire, Closer dismantles illusions of parental ability to protect their offspring’s inner lives – or their own. Children of all ages will fall prey to love’s illusions in this multigenerational tragedy.
Miriam Gershow has written a work of extraordinary breadth and depth, filled with delicious scenes of carefree teenage infatuation and middleage lust. I’m awed by Gershow’s funny and detailed rendering of the twined lives of these likable dupes, none of whom see the dark future coming until it’s too late.
With warmth and humor, Gershow deftly navigates a tangled web of crisscrossing landmines— family, friendship, class, race, adolescence, and love. It is a combustible stew that a lesser writer might shy from, but Gershow attacks these thorny topics head on. With multidimensional, nuanced characters and gorgeous, propulsive prose, this is a story that will stay with readers long after the shocking, heart-stopping end.
Miriam Gershow's moving novel Closer asks how we know and love one another. Her characters are vibrant and believable and the world they inhabit is an awful lot like our own — full of uneasy questions and loving approximations that feel like, but may not be, understanding."